Political Developments In Brave New World

In Huxley novel, Brave New World, the themes in the novel relate to the political developments of the 1930s. Huxley wrote his novel between the world wars. British society was at peace, but the social effects of World Ward 1 were still in effect. Huxley wrote about the changes in national feelings, questioning of long-held social and moral assumptions, and the move toward more equality among the classes and between the sexes. During this time there was an expansion of transportation and communication. Brave New World, reflects the widespread concern about the world of the 1930s. Although he novel is set in the further it is about what was happening in the 1930s. This was a period of great change, and Huxley created a world in which all the present worrying trends have produced terrible consequences. The movement toward socialism that occurred in the 1920s becomes in the novel the totalitarian World State. Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, relates to events that were happening in the 1930s.
Huxley’s novel takes place in London in 632 A.F. The A.F. stands for “After Ford.” This tells us that by this time Christ had been replaced by Henry Ford. Henry Ford is the father of the assembly line and a creator of mass-production and mass consumerism. Huxley portrays the questioning of religious beliefs and the growth of materialism. He transforms it into a religion of consumerism with Henry Ford as its god. Huxley is comparing Model T cars to the humans. Model T cars rolled off the assembly line and in Huxley’s novel human beings are being mass-produced. This is how religion fit in to Huxley’s