He also talks about the World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917 as also uses the names of some contemporary leaders such as Bernard Marx and Benito Hoover in formulating his strategy in the book. The book is set in the future and portrays some contemporary issues pertaining to the earlier 20 th century such as the effects of the Industrial revolution in bringing far reaching changes in the world of production techniques of several technologically advanced products. Huxley has written in the introduction of his recent print of the book that much of the inspiration for the book was a result of his visit to the high technology Brunner and Mond plant of the Imperial Chemical Industries in Billingham, which impressed him a great deal by way of the processes used in the plant. Brave New World is in fact a parody of this book by Huxley, whereby he aimed at portraying a rather frightening picture of the coming future in referring to the so called brave new world as ‘negative utopia’. Notably, Huxley got the inspiration from the book ‘Men Like Gods’ which is a utopian novel by H G Wells. He also wrote a few successful books on satire such as ‘Crome Yellow’, ‘Antic Hay’and ‘Those Barrren Leaves’ in 1921, 19 respectively and had established his identity as a writer of excellent repute. The author was a known writer in satire and had been contributing regularly to magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. Huxley wrote the original book when he was residing in England and France before he shifted to California in 1937. In this regard Huxley has reassessed the book in an essay he wrote in 1958 and titled as ‘Brave New World Revisited’ as also in his book titled ‘Island’ that was written in 1962. The novel has very elaborately come out with the concepts of sleep-learning and reproductive technology that collectively contribute in changing the society.
Brave New World is a book that Aldous Huxley wrote in 1931 and it has very imaginatively portrayed the London of 2540 AD.
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