“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (post 3): Is this novel meant to be a joke? And is its cloning an obvious metaphor for multiple personality?

Is Brave New World an obvious joke, beginning with the fact that children are produced in a “hatchery”? And what could be more absurdly funny than a society without mothers, in which the word “mother” is a horrible profanity?

But since Huxley’s mother died of cancer when he was a child, this novel may be his revenge against mothers and motherhood, because his mother abandoned him.

And what this novel describes as its “caste” system, with the lowest class colored black, is not a funny new world, but the old classism and racism.

Moreover, since cloning is an obvious metaphor for multiple personality, is any further analysis required? I will read on, anyway.