In British history, there is a famous family, this family is a model family that integrates the spirit of human science and the spirit of humanity. Three generations of the family, who have contributed many outstanding figures to the world, have made great contributions in the fields of literature, engineering, physics, etc., and this family is the Huxley family. Today, we will introduce a famous literary figure in the family, who is Adolf Hitler.
Because of his prominent family, Ados Huxley's life was carefree, and because of his family, he became acquainted with a literary giant like Russell. He received a good education from an early age, and as a teenager he entered the prestigious Eton College, attending the most famous and oldest School of Berry orle at Oxford. At first, Adaus Huxley did not want to pursue a career in literature, he wanted to be a doctor, but could not enter the profession because of vision problems. Later, he gradually began to engage in literary creation, and it is said that he wrote his first work at the age of 17, but unfortunately it was not published at that time.
Fate gave birth to Ados Huxley in the Huxley family, but fate also kept him away from the light. He suffered from an eye disease that became more severe over time and eventually lost his vision completely. He continued to write after learning Braille, and many of the novels and essays from his hands were written after he lost his sight, which is really inspirational. As his fame grew, Ados Huxley became an opinion leader in the literary and intellectual camps of the time, and was called by his peers as the most prominent intellectual of his time.
Adolphus Huxley had a son, the family moved away from England to settle in Los Angeles, his son later became a writer, and he had two other identities — an anthropologist and an epidemiologist. Mention the work of Ados Huxley, and we have to mention the great "dystopian" work, Brave New World. This work, together with "1984" and "Us", has been hailed as a "dystopian trilogy" and has had a great influence on the world literary scene.
The novel "Brave New World" is a science fiction novel with strong irony, the author fictionalized a civilized society more than 600 years away from the present, the whole book uses a wide range of biological and psychological knowledge, with a large depiction of those pervasive technology "occupy" people's lives, and technology to manipulate human beings, did not let human civilization take a big leap forward, but went back hundreds of years. The main thrust of the book is also the concern of the author Ados Huxley, who makes bold predictions about world civilization and reminds the present.
The novel not only depicts a large number of advanced technologies, but also writes about many materialistic social phenomena. In the author's pen, human beings are divided into different levels, and the difference in the hierarchy is also the embodiment of the extreme reaction of the author's life era, this dystopian description breaks people's vision of an ideal society, and also reflects the author's anger at this irrational phenomenon.
The main idea of the novel also reflects the author's strong criticalism, his criticism of totalitarianism, his criticism of the abuse of science and technology, the annihilation of human nature, and the criticism of consumerism. This "Brave New World" satirizes the politics, culture and economy of the ideal world, and through satire, it also warns the world to reflect deeply, and also expresses the author's redemption of truth, faith, love, and human nature. It can be said that the novel "Brave New World" is not only a great work in the world, but also plays an important role in the history of literature.
On July 26, 1894, Ados Huxley was born in England, and today is the 127th anniversary of the birth of this famous British writer, so let's enjoy his ten most reasonable maxims, I believe that after reading it, you will definitely feel that it has the effect of warning the world.
The greatness of life is not in being able to know but in being able to do. - Huxley
Encountering a few failures at the beginning of life has great practical benefits. - Huxley
No intelligent person would deny the value of the exercise of pain and sorrow. - Huxley
People full of joy and the spirit of struggle, always with joy, welcome thunder and sunshine. - Huxley
What I have to do is to make my wishes conform to the facts, not to try to reconcile the facts with my wishes. - Huxley
The greatest crisis of human beings is not poisoning, but the loss of the ability to think about being aware of their own poisoning. - Huxley
Time is the least selfish, twenty-four hours for anyone, and time is also the most selfish, not twenty-four hours for anyone. - Huxley
The bars on the ladder were never meant to rest, just to allow one foot to land on the other as one foot moved higher. - Huxley
One day, the truth will triumph. Even if the truth fails to triumph in his lifetime, in order to uphold the truth will make him better and wiser. - Huxley
Everyone who knows how to read books knows how to use what they have learned to improve their abilities, improve the way they live, and make life full of meaning and fun. - Huxley