What I have learned from my research is that many events from Huxley's personal life have had great impact on what he wrote and how he wrote it.

The attack of keratitis punctata which impaired his ability to see had great impact on how he described structures, worlds and people in his book.

The intense grief he felt when his mother passed away when he was 14 is reflected in how John's mother dies in the book.

His views on drug use, reflected in the use of the numbing Soma.