Within every novel there are always elements taken directly from the author's life and experiences. Their thoughts and opinions will also be fed into the novel, conveying a direct message to the reader and perhaps arguing their opinions, to persuade the audience. These influences on and from his environment are evident in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. In the 1930s, when the book was written, many events were taking place on a global scale and society as a whole was changing. All this undoubtedly influenced Huxley and created one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels. His vision of the future offers great insight into an undesirable lifestyle that may not be that different from what exists today. What makes Huxley's novel so classic is his visionary ability to use these current influences and invent such a fascinating society, and at the same time a revolutionary new world. This produced a novel that not only influenced the people of its time, but also had profound effects on modern-day societies. Huxley's family were upper-class intellectuals, his father was a biographer, editor and poet, and his grandfather was a famous biologist. Living with these people, he not only received a superior education in a wide variety of subjects, but he faced constant pressure to live up to their expectations. Living in England, Huxley describes in his novel a very harsh class system, no doubt taken from the same system in his country. There was also the emergence of fascism across Europe, along with an economic depression, which also made its way into the book. Even though fascism was just emerging in the 1930s, Huxley saw the imminent damage that could result from it, and so decided to use a totalitarian government in the book to illustrate it. Finally we see that social morality was changing, with a more open view of sexuality, greater equality between men and women and a large dose of consumerism. These social changes sparked interest in Huxley and were exaggerated for the book. When the book was first published it did not receive much attention. However, when a similar, more popular novel was published in 1984, people began to see the similarities between the two and further realized that Brave New World was a more realistic interpretation. The book touches on topics of government and civilization as a whole, and the realism of his predictions about them is what has shocked so many people..