In addition to Ford, “Freud” is mentioned with great esteem in the novel. The references to Ford’s mechanical innovation, an invention contemporary to Huxley, are not the only reference to movements in Huxley’s lifetime. This piecemeal assembly-line method is consistently used throughout the lives of children until they become new cogs in the machine. For example, some people are in charge of monitoring the audio sleep learning of babies and children while they grow, others write the material that is being read to the children, and others still will provide food to the children. Children are raised by a specific set of guidelines by the state and families no longer exist, so they are educated by numerous individuals who each have a specific set of tasks. This segmentation of small jobs in order to create a larger product, in this case, human beings, continues in the upbringing of children. Babies are created and manipulated in laboratories rather than within human bodies and people working on the genetic material have particular duties that remain the same, such as Lenina’s job to inject fetuses with immunizations. From the first dealings with genetic material, characters are part of the assembly line. Furthermore, the assembly line has been integrated into all parts of life in the novel. Characters use phrases, such as ,“For Ford’s sake” rather than “For G-d’s sake” to express their frustration and it is the name “Ford” that the highest ranked person in the world, the Controller, calls upon when asserting his control (Huxley 191). As the “After Ford” time frame indicates, Henry Ford’s industrial innovation of the assembly line and mass production are highly esteemed in the world of Brave New World to the point of replacing religion and gods. or 632 years “After Ford” introduced the Model T car in the United States, making the time in the novel 2540 A.D. The novel is set in London, specifically 632 A.F. Although this motto is not mentioned again within the text, reappearances of mental conditioning to create “stable” citizens and communities is continuously show up in the novel.īeyond this three-part motto, however, Huxley’s novel is a negative interpretation of the impact technology and industry can have on society. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” ( Brave New World 3). Brave New World, begins by setting up two key points of the book-eugenics and expectations for human behavior-starting with the description of “A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.
Today it is still considered the most popular of all his published works, which include more than 11 novels, 7 short story collections, 8 poetry collections, and 23 essay collections. From its publication it was an incredible success for Huxley-its first year sales in Britain alone reached 23,000 copies. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s fifth novel, was written in 1931 and published in the United Kingdom in 1932.
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