Huxley Brave New World Analysis

Aldous Huxley grew up under difficult circumstances, losing his mother and eyesight at a young age made his life very challenging. After overcoming his near blindness and gaining a perspective on life not many have, Huxley became disillusioned with the war while studying at Oxford. Due to his blindness Huxley was a very shy man, which had a negative effect on his social life. This lead him to quit his position as a teacher and become an editor and ultimately a novelist. Huxley visited the United States during the Roaring Twenties and was appalled by the promiscuity of the men and women he encountered and their use of drugs and alcohol. This self-indulgent and lascivious behavior lead Huxley to believe that people were starting to care more about hedonistic pleasures than relationships leading to a breakdown in society. Brave New World displayed Huxley’s displeasure with those self-medicating and displaying wanton behavior in order to escape the hardships of society. (Grigsby, 2009, para. 1-3).
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He discovered that they were very materialistic and heavily self medicating. They were doing this through vices such as alcohol and cocaine. Huxley also saw that people were becoming more sexually promiscuous and saw that all of these things would lead to the deterioration of society. He uses his experiences in the Roaring Twenties to develop Brave New World, where he talks about the negatives of drug use and materialism. Huxley manages to separate sex for procreation from sex for pleasure by making childbirth a process strictly done in a laboratory. He does not eliminate drugs completely, instead he creates a perfect drug. Huxley saw a need for releases from society, but knew that the current drugs altered a person’s mind too much for them to work effectively. The open use of soma within this book shows Huxley’s ideological beliefs on drug