martes, 30 de abril de 2013

Imagery of Brave New World


List of words:
Squat grey, cold, enormous, thin light, frozen, pale corpse-coloured rubber, polished tubes, pallid shape.

This description of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre give me a very cold impression of the society in those times. The society on those days obviously was not conscious of the emotional elements or care about the humans feelings, the images that come to my when I read the paragraph are very unemotional and creepy because of words like squat grey and cold, also I think about a laboratory but related with the elements that I talk before.
 To conclude the people on those times we could say that they only care about technological and scientific advances and don’t care about humans emotions or feelings. 

martes, 16 de abril de 2013

A Contextualised Biography

Aldous Leonard Huxley


    He was born in 26 of July of 1894 near Godalmin, Surrey, England. His parents were Leonard Huxley English school teacher and Julia Arnold, he had three brothers Julia Huxley a half-brother Andrew Huxley they both were outstanding biologists. Aldous third brother named Noel Trevelyan Huxley, who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression. He pulled himself harder because all his family was important and he also wanted to be recognized.
    What we could say about his educational background is that his mother was his teacher, because he was blind, he studied in a school named hillside after hillside Huxley was educated at Eton College, once his eyes recovered he was able to study English literature at Balliol College. 
    Crome Yellow(1921), Antic Hay(1921), Those Barren Leaves(1925), Point Counter Point(1928), Brave New World(1932), Eveless in Gaza(1936) After Many A Summer(1939), Time Must Have a Stop(1944), Ape and Essence(1948), The Genius and the Goddess(1955), Island(1962).
   The events that obviously influenced in Huxley life was the dead of two of his nearest familiars, his nearly blindness leaves him aside from the first world war, the event that obviously change his way of thinking was the early dead of Julia Arnold his mother, when he was only 14 years old.
    Huxley made a request (written) to his wife Laura saying ”LSD, 100g, intramuscular”, she injected him an injection at 11:45am and a second one a few hours letter; he dies aged 69, at 5:20pm on 22 of November of 1963. How Huxley died at the same day that John F. Kennedy.