The various references to famous figures throughout the book has made me wonder why he chose to use the figures that he used. Henry Ford is the first figure alluded to in the novel. He used this character as the messiah of the World State. Ford was used, because of his massive advancement in the industrial sector: the assembly line. The book parallels this when The Director excitedly states,"Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!". 96 also has a symbolical significance, because of its vertical mirrored inverse symmetry. Another character the author alludes to Mendel and his work with sugar snap peas by using the name Podsnap for the inventor of a new hatching technique. Bokonovsky, an obviously Russian sounding name is the second technique mentioned by Huxley. It represents the sameness of the Brave New World society with the relation between Russia and their recent change to communism. Lenin, a Russian leader around the beginning of communism in Russia, is alluded to in a feminized version of his name: Lenina. The burial rites given by the society are not very kind, and quite careless of the transition to an afterlife. Making me think that religion has changed a lot in this new time. They burn the bodies and give it no second thought, thus accustomizing them to the ineveitability of death. Peoples death also gives out life in the form of phosphorous. Symbolizing that people never really die they only change form.