Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley -Early Life -Career -Post-Career 1894-1963 “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” -Early Life -Career -Post-Career

Aldous Huxley BAD Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in England. At a young age he got very sick which led to near-blindness which he struggled with his entire life. He became educated at Oxford, and after graduating, indebted to his father, he taught French for a year. He even taught George Orwell. In his 1937, he moved to America where he wrote screenplays for Hollywood. One time he wrote a screen play for Alice in Wonderland, which Walt Disney rejected because “he could only understand every third word.” He applied for American citizenship but was rejected because he refused to fight in wars for America if he were called upon to do so—this was because Huxley was a pacifist. In his later years, Huxley experimented with a lot of drugs—mostly LSD. He wrote a lot about his psychedelic experiences. He died in 1963 on the same day

BAD Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in England. At a young age he got very sick which led to near-blindness which he struggled with his entire life. He became educated at Oxford, and after graduating, indebted to his father, he taught French for a year. He even taught George Orwell.

BAD Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in England. At a young age he got very sick which led to near-blindness which he struggled with his entire life. He became educated at Oxford, and after graduating, indebted to his father, he taught French for a year. He even taught George Orwell.

Early Life -Birth -Eyesight -Education

Early Life -Birth -Eyesight -Education

Career -Hollywood

Hollywood Carrer “too literary” “I don’t want to see us build up any sex story here…We don’t bring sex into it all at.” -Walt Disney, on Huxley’s Alice in Wonderland script

Career -Hollywood -Brave New World

Brave New World "It was time to produce some full-length fiction--he still felt like holding back from another straight novel--juggling in fiction form with the scientific possibilities of the future might be a new line." -Sybille Bedford, Biographer of Huxley

Brave New World “Look in the mirror: do you see Lenina Crowne looking back at you, or do you see John the Savage? Chances are, you'll see something of both, because we've always wanted things both ways. We wish to be as the careless gods, lying around on Olympus, eternally beautiful, having sex and being entertained by the anguish of others. And at the same time we want to be those anguished others, because we believe, with John, that life has meaning beyond the play of the senses, and that immediate gratification will never be enough…” -Margaret Atwood, “Everybody’s Happy Now”, The Guardian.

Career -Hollywood -Brave New World -Pacifism and Humanism

Post-Career -Lesser known-works -Drug experimentation -Death Coincidence

Significance -Early Life -Career -Post-Career