Context Of Brave New World

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Dystopia of Time

In literature, nearly every piece is at least loosely based on actual events or developments. And so, many literary works have also created, predicted or influenced these events or developments. These particular aspects of a book create context, which is an interesting thing to look at. When the understanding of the context of the text is sufficient, the reader will be able to analyse the text more appropiate, and the over all understanding of the text would be more adequate.
When digging deeper into context, questions arise such as “What would a change in context do to the text?” To myself, this is an fascinating idea, especially when thinking about a book which is profoundly depending on its time, place, language or audience. One of these book is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Brave New World is based on particular events in the life of Huxley and his environment, and it is known to may have predicted certain events such as Hitler taking power and world war two. It is also satirical and written with a philosophical and ethical mindset, which makes it depend on its audience.
This is why I will be writing about what a change in some aspects of the context could do to the book Brave New World, will it change entirely? Would it even be likely to exist with some changes?

Around the time Huxley wrote Brave New World, there were several important events which had a great influence on developments in society. Brave New World was written in 1931 and