Aldous Huxley, because he was ill most of the time and since the world he live in was corrupt, tried to make a perfect world seem possible in Brave New World and Island. Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Godalming, in the county of Surrey. As a young boy, Aldous was quite docile and usually kept to himself. He had an unusually large head for his size, and his family nicknamed him "Ogie," …showed first 75 words of 1419 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1419 total…doctor allowed the extremely large dose of LSD. Aldous Leonard Huxley, "Ogie," died at 5:20 p.m., quite possibly in a state of the utopia he never believed he'd see. (Bedford 750) All his life, Aldous was forced to see the world as it actually was in spirit, not in sight. He perceived the emotions present at any given time rather than the false images the society had created to cover up the horrors of the truth.