Brave New World and The Time Machine
Critically explore the extent to which the personal themes in Well’s THE TIME MACHINE (1895) and Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932) responded to the prevailing ideologies of social class that were present in England at their time of writing
Keep in mind Wells wrote/rewrote The Time Machine, on and off, for around 12 years before it saw publication. Brave New World was apparently written in 1931 (and so the sharp change in ideas caused by the Great Depression could have shaped the novel.)

Society is defined as “the aggregate of people living together in an ordered community” (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/society). Every nation on this planet is comprised of many societies which all differ in their own ways. As time passes, society itself changes. The morals or beliefs that a society once stood by overtime, radically change to form a newer, revolutionized set of ideas. Fields like science and technology reach their most advanced states. Members of a society can also change. In most cases, members develop according to the new rules or ideals that are of the norm. Some changes are for the betterment of society while others prove to have more negative impacts. These are all changes one can expect when time travelling. Although, one cannot prepare themselves for the societies I have recently seen.
Throughout my time travelling I have never come across two societies so strange. Both societies were of terrifying living conditions. One can easily draw about similarities to categorize them as dystopias however; the individual societies differ from each other in many ways.

The two dystopian societies differ greatly in aspects of individualism, gender relations, and social hierarchy.

The two societies hold opposing views on individualism. The first society was known as The World State. This society was one that gave technology a high, almost religious-like importance. The ruling class had all of the power here and there was a strict code of rules to live by, their motto being “community, identity, and stability”. Men and women in appearance seemed similar to ours although their women dressed highly provocatively, in outfits that outlined their figures. The citizens of the state seemed almost inhumane in their sayings and the way they associated with one another. One could never imagine the government to hold such significant amount of control over its citizens as this society’s did....

Essay Question Imaginative writing:
Write an extract in which two distinctive characters that you create interact in the Brave New World setting. Include a minimum of two SF conventions. Essay response:
Evaluate the extent to which Science Fiction texts have been shaped by the fears and dreams of the ages in which they were composed. Discuss with close reference to ‘Brave New World’ and at least ONE related text of your own choosing.