Aldous Huxley: Inspired, Intelligent, and Insightful Many people enjoy books about a dystopian future that give them a contrast to the world they live in. An author who provided an escape from the real world was Aldous Huxley through the use of his descriptive settings. Throughout his life, Huxley was greatly influenced by his family’s career paths. His father was a professor, great uncle a poet, grandfather a contributor to the theory of evolution, and aunt a novelist. While Aldous Huxley faced
Violence in South Africa and its impact on mental health IntroductionViolence in South Africa and its impact on mental health Introduction According to the World Health Organization in the World Report on Violence and Health, violence is defined as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened as actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment
Lindsay is an escaped convict and previous drug addict from a prison in Australia. The quote “It took me a long time...most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make... the heart of it came to me in an instant...I was chained to a wall being tortured. I realised...through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I
literature. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, where American society has outlawed books and other written works, is perhaps one example. Another would be Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where the year 2450 is marked by extreme class government, where citizens born into the lower class are enslaved through drugs and other nefarious substances. More recently, the recent wave of young-adult dystopian novels, such as Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series