http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Characters


A further look into the eerie similarities between our world and Brave New World's.... 


 It is very ironic that Huxely uses the names/personalities of real people for his fictional characters, because in doing so, he is trying to make a point. I believe that Aldous Huxely is trying to show us what our World really is; A Brave New World. He creates this fictional world, with "fictional" characters, who for some reason, resemble real world people extremely creepily. Take for example, Lenina. Lenina is a pseudonym for Vladimir Lenin,  a former communist politician of the Soviet Union. By using the name Lenina to resemble Lenin, Huxely makes a satirical joke. In the story, Lenina disagrees with her friend Fanny, and decides to try something new. Not completely new, like Bernard Marx does, but something a little off the status quo. Lenin, on the other hand, also disagreed with the way his government was being run. He rallied supporters, and started a partisan movement called the "Bolsheviks," and for a short time, he got to run the city.


The similarities only continue.


Take leader of Brave New World, Mustapha Mond. This fictional character is actually a stand-in for Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey after the World War I. 
Ironically, Mustapha Mond also founded a whole "world," gluing it back together from the past, when all was not right.


Interestingly enough, Huxely got a few ideas from Shakespeare's "Tempest," especially from the character Miranda. Miranda says the line "Oh glorious Brave New World that has such people in it,"  which Huxely then uses for John the Savage to say when he enters the Brave New World. Surprisingly enough, Huxely does not have a single character with the name Miranda. Did Huxely think it would be too obvious if he used it? Did he not like it?


What do you think?