The Context Of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Context can be understood as the environment from which a text derived and which it presents. Works of the dystopian science fiction genre; Brave New World exemplifies this inextricable link between the context of composition and the creation and reception of texts. Half a century apart, each grew from different historical and social influences. Huxley has extrapolated, from his own time, elements of contemporary trend which he finds disconcerting into a hypothesized future.
Brave New World was published in 1932. Aldous Huxley drew many of his themes based on the society he lived in. During this period after World War I many of the nations of Europe and their allies suffered from depression. After this war people generally lost faith with governments and alternatives to democracy became appealing. Totalitarian regimes, like in

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Huxley also enlists the use of setting to depict his bleak dystopian futures, of a completely controlled world; contrasting to the chaotic nature of BR. Within the first chapter, we are presented with a clean, ordered, sterile world of London 632AF.The repetition of “community, identity and stability” throughout the novel, reflects the repressive and conformist nature of the totalitarian world, that Huxley’s satirizes. He taunts with all that we hold as defining our humanity that has ironically been sacrificed in order to maintain