Conclusion

The conclusion shows that Huxley’s stories are much more than crude illustrations of his ideas, as it is usually presented in the literature on his works. It proves that some of his most famous ideas developed from characters in his early short fiction. The conclusion also points out Huxley’s similarities and differences with other European and American modernists, highlighting his use of myth and fairy tales, intertextuality, acoustic dimensions of language, formal experimentation, and his reactions to social, scientific, cultural, and educational changes in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Moreover, the conclusion emphasizes that Huxley’s multilayered humor and irony are his greatest contributions to modernist poetics. Apart from explaining Huxley’s position within modernist short fiction, the final chapter illustrates that Huxley’s short stories can answer important questions about his stance on religion, mysticism, and major political events.