Aldous Huxley brings with it a futuristic novel, full of human follies and satire. Huxley wrote during the Progressive and Post-Depression periods, which is reflected in the issues he satirizes. Brave New World is a futuristic novel that explores hypothetical advances in technology and the effects or improvements on society. The novel defines a social system similar to that of medieval England in which people are “born” into castes. This sets the stage for the many social battles that ensue as the novel develops. But the real crux of the whole drama lies not in social status but within oneself. Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future (“After Ford”). Human life has been almost entirely industrialized, controlled by a few people at the top of a world state. The first scene, which offers a tour of a laboratory where humans are created and conditioned according to society's rigid caste system, establishes the tone and theme of dehumanized life. The natural processes of birth, aging and death represent the horrors in this world. Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus psychologist, emerges as the only discontented person in a world where material well-being and physical pleasure - provided by drugs, soma and recreational sex - are the only concerns. Scorned by women, Bernard nevertheless manages to attract the attention of Lenina Crowne, a "pneumatic" beauty who agrees to spend a week with him in the remote New Mexico Wilderness, a place far from the controlled and technological world of London..