‘Brave New World’ is primarily a satire on Huxley’s contemporary society

‘Brave New World’ is primarily a satire on Huxley’s contemporary society While writing “Brave New World” in 1932, Aldous Huxley was affected by the political, economic, social and scientific situation of the time. This is seen by Huxley incorporating, and in fact satirising, such issues in his novel. These issues provided the basis for Huxley’s projection into the future, and hence the satire of those topics is the main feature of the novel. They …

…used his novel as a medium to warn society against what he saw happening around him. “Brave New World” is a satire of what were, in 1932, contemporary issues. By basing the themes, characters and settings of the novel on extrapolation of his surrounding society, Huxley creates a terrifying future with one foot set firmly in the present - which enables him to make us think about what sort of a future we are working towards.