6/11/2023 0 Comments Shmoop a brave new worldIn London, the protagonist in Antic Hay, Theodore Gumbril, comes up with a brilliant idea: he wishes to manufacture special trousers he has invented, trousers that “contain a pneumatic cushion in the seat” (see further in Wikipedia). When times were hard and generations were lost – as in Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned – the youth was becoming disenchanted on the other side of the Atlantic as well. The lost search for happiness while going out of control ridiculously.Huxley was considered a prodigy, being exceptionally intelligent and creative.” More on the Huxleys Key concepts From 1913 to 1916 he attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he excelled academically and edited literary journals. When he was sixteen Aldous Huxley went to England’s prestigious Eton school and was trained in medicine, the arts, and science. Huxley, worked with Charles Darwin, his brother, Julian Huxley, a biologist, founded UNESCO, and his half-brother, Andrew Huxley, won the Nobel Prize in 1963 for his work in physiology. His family was considered the blue-bloods of English intellectualism, well known for scientific and literary achievements: Huxley’s father, Leonard, was a renowned editor and essayist, and his highly educated mother ran her own boarding school. ![]() The interior of Hotelli Punkaharju in September 2016. He published over 50 books, novels, travel books, histories, poems, plays, screenplays, and essays on philosophy, arts, sociology, religion, and morals. “Aldous Huxley, born in England in 1894, is best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World, a dark vision of a highly technological society of the future. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best, a novel, loud with derisive laughter, which satirically scoffs at all conventional morality and at stuffy people everywhere, a novel that’s always charged with excitement.” More on Goodreads “Antic Hay is one of Aldous Huxley’s earlier novels, and like them is primarily a novel of ideas involving conversations that disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London’s post-war nihilistic Bohemia. ‘Which comes to the same thing,’ said his father parenthetically, ‘as being interested in nothing.” ![]() ![]() “…‘I am interested in everything,’ interrupted Gumbril Junior.
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