Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, SE England, UK. He was a surrounded by many famous people. He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother had many connections to the literary world, being the relative of many novelists and poets. When Huxley was 16, he acquired an eye illness and became nearly blind. He studied at Oxford, and lived mainly in Italy in the 1920s, and moved to California in 1937. He wrote a variety of types of works, including poetry, short stories, and literary journalism, but his reputation was made with his novels Crome Yellow (1921) and Antic Hay (1923). Later novels include Point Counter Point (1928) and his best-known work, Brave New World (1932). Later writings include Eyeless in Gaza (1936) Time Must Have a Stop (1944), and Island (1962).
Characters.
Bernard Marx - An Alpha male who is different from all his peers, and is considered by many to be odd. He is the one who discovers John on the Reservation, and takes him back to his world. .
Mustapha Mond - The Resident World Controller of Western Europe who sends Helmholtz and Bernard into exile. .
Lenina Crowne - A female who accompanies Bernard to the Reservation and becomes almost obsessed with John.
Helmholtz Watson - An Alpha who is friends with Bernard, and shares some of his ideals. He also becomes good friends with John. .
John - The savage who is found on the Reservation and is brought back with Bernard and Lenina. His mother is Linda, and his father was the director.
Linda - The woman who was left in the Reservation and is the mother of John. She is returned to London only to take a permanent soma holiday and die. .
Settings.
London, many years in the future.
New Mexico-The Savage Reservation.
The Lighthouse.
Plot Summary.
The novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, takes place many years in the future.
