Brave new world character's connection with real-life figure (1 Viewer)

[echelon4]

I've been studying BNW, and I realise that brave new world's characters are references to people at the time the book was written.e.g

Lenina Crowne-Vladimir Lenin
Bernard Marx-Karl Marx
etc

their names are alike, But what i don't understand is what similarities are between the characters and their references. It might be because my knowledge of the real-life people is little. But i do know that Karl Marx was the father of communism. is there a connection between Bernard and communism?

I know these references are important, but i donno what to write about them. Can anyone explain?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[BigBear_25]

I might be wrong but i dont think that the characters are linked to the real life people however the use of these names are significant.

Many of these names as you have noticed are Russian or Eastern European.
Huxley in BNW was writing against the Russian Revolution and other such events piror to the publication of BNW. What he is trying to do i think is make a connection between these ppl to the ideas presented in BNW rather than the characters of the book.

I would recommend looking the names of these ppl on the net and finding some info on what they did. This might help you understand Huxley's context and why wrote BNW.

Hope this way helpful.

 

[passion89]

It's all about creating a satirical warning by drawing parallels from his historical and societal context (the beginning of the Russian Revolution as bigbear said) and writing it into BNW. Because BNW is deemed a dystopic novel and also because the russian revolution was against what Huxley believed, he put the two together to warn humankind that communism = dystopia = bad.