Sex And Love In Brave New World

During the writing of the novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, the author of the book, saw the way society was beginning to change. Throughout the story, he explores many different predictions that he has seen create an affect our world today. One of the main predictions he made was on the way promiscuity has changed the view of romantic relationships. As Huxley began to see people’s sexual behavior change he used his ideas to integrate in with how the world would turn out. Huxley incorporates promiscuity in his utopian society called the World State, to foreshadow how the world is conforming to the beliefs incorporated in the novel.

I do agree with this statement and i will be explaining why in this essay. Lenins main policies consisted of; war communism this was seen as repressive,

Theodore Dalrymple, in the essay “All Sex, All the Time” reflects on the change of view of the people about sex and how it has lead people into more confusion and conflict than before. Dalrymple’s real name being Anthony Daniels, he picked up the pseudonym of Theodore Dalrymple for the purpose of his essays. There were times when virginity was a pride to men and women. However, it still prevails in some countries, this custom and the people have been changing. He states that the world is now free to enjoy sexual pleasures without any fear of the myths and taboos that existed in history. Although people feel that they are satisfied and are free to choose this path of life, sex has lead people into “confusion, contradiction, and conflict” states Dalrymple (Dalrymple 1).

Throughout the novel, Brave New World, liberal views on sex very frequent. The novel starts with a thoroughly detailed description of the test-tube process of human reproduction. The reproductive function of sex was scientifically disconnected; the act of sex was mainly for physical pleasure. The sexual activity in Brave New World had no weight, “no-strings-attached”, purely casual. Reproduction was scientifically engineered, and consequently sex was a purely leisure and casual activity in the World State. Monogamy was no principle the people of World State followed: promiscuity was considered mutually beneficial and superior to monogamous relationships. The Controllers realized that fidelities caused by committed relationships resulted in conflicts between partners: upsetting productivity and harmony. As seen here, “Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce

Sex has been reduced to a common action with no social bindings and it is not a gesture of showing love for someone else as people think of it today. When will today’s society be consumed with only the physical aspect of sex? With all of the premarital sex and the age of becoming sexually active decreasing every generation, it leaves a question to be answered; where did the value of love and responsibility of partnership go? Monogamy, in “Brave New World“, is unheard of and taboo to everyone except those who see how powerful love is. The connection that unites people is reduced to a competition to see how many times people have it rather than which the person is. In the book, John knows the importance of love and even resists the temptation to have sex with Lenina. John is among a few people who have not been reduced to mating animals but rather humans that still feel a need for love and companionship.

People of the World State have no feelings because they were conditioned from birth to not value or worry about anything. In the scene when Lenina was telling Fanny that she was not comfortable with promiscuity, Fanny deemphasized Lenina's feelings and told her it was wrong to have sentimental value towards one another: " Everybody belongs to everyone else."(Huxley 43). In other words, Fanny told Lenina that she does not need to value anyone, nor does anyone need to value her. The government has established that having feelings towards another person causes social instability. The

Lenina is a woman who works in the embryo store of the hatchery. She represents the ideal citizen of the world state, and she undergoes a change in character towards the end of the novel. She begins as a conforming World state citizen, midway she feels some degree of love for John, then at the end she contributes to the death of John. At the beginning of the novel Lenina is the epitome of the world state female, and the world state citizen. She seems to be quite Vapid, a clear description of this was in the discussion between Henry Foster and the assistant Predestinator. Henry says ’Oh, she’s a splendid girl.Wonderfully pneumatic. I’m surprised you haven’t had

Promiscuity was satirized in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and as much as we would like to believe our society is not nearing the vulgar actions of the New World State, we should not believe in such unrealistic concepts. Some of the same struggles that were faced in the book are being seen more and more in our world today. Even though there is some uncertainty and minute resilience in the novel, promiscuity is an ongoing battle in the New World State and on the Reservation; likewise, current society is showing that the intimacy shared between two people could be replaced by a rising acceptance of promiscuity.

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Everyone in Brave New World is ignorant about their feelings, loneliness, and emotional pain. Lenina said “I hadn’t been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately. There are times when one doesn’t” (43). Lenina feels the desire for an actual relationship, but is confused on how to explain her feelings. Brave New World is ignorant towards the fact that they aren’t feeling true connections between people.

Lenina falls into the stereotypical person from the society. She constantly repeats many of the hypnopædic phrases that she was conditioned to know. For instance, when she is having her conversation with Henry about the Epsilons she states, “I suppose Epsilons don’t really mind being Epsilons…” and then after a bit of explanation, “…Everybody’s happy now,” (74-75). This shows that even though a little thought was put into what she said, Lenina still uses her hypnopædic training as a basis for everything. Another example of this is when she continuously repeats, “A gramme is better than a damn,” (116). This is one of the hypnopædic thoughts that are popular amongst everyone and seem to be a reaction when the word damn is used. So while Lenina can think for herself and make her own ideas about things, the hypnopædic suggestions provide a basis for her actions that she makes throughout the story like taking soma whenever she’s bored and when she wants to get away.

At the very beginning of the novel sex is shown to play an important role in the new society because kids are playing sex games in bushes. This should immediately evoke a sense of bewilderment by the reader because sex amongst children is looked down upon by normal society. Throughout the entire novel sex occurs quite often, but love is never correlated with the intimacy. The characters simply choose who they want to be with and then act upon the person without putting forth much effort at all. Having sex with others and not loving the person is something that is normally looked down upon in normal society, so Huxley obviously intended to have a large impact on the readers. To further his exploitation of taboo subjects, Huxley makes the New World a society in which drugs known as Soma are used to fix any problem that may occur. Whenever something that seems like it might be the least bit problematic arises, Soma is taken to ease them of any tension. This eliminates any problem solving and rids of the overall satisfaction from overcoming difficulties. But problems seldom occur to inhabitants of the New World, and Huxley wanted to make drugs commonplace in Brave New World. So, Soma is also taken during most instances of sex which increases the drastic impact on the reader. All of Huxley’s exaggerations of the New World is meant to make the reader think about his own society and think about the path

Yet also in the World State, they made children partake in “ rudimentary sexual games ( Huxley 31). This took away the aura of excitement away from sex in order to condition the children to see sex as something that has no meaning. Huxley uses this to warn us that we have to take emotional and physical elements of a relationship serious in order to have and preserve meaningful relationships and interactions with other people. Without establishing these connections , we won’t be able to learn from people that can positively help shape us into who we’re supposed to

This again shows Lenina's attempt to escape from the harsh reality of her brainwashed society. All the times that Lenina resorts to soma use, it is due to a recognition that her life and world are not perfect and in control, but rather full of people who have no grasp on real freedom and control. Though she does not directly fight the power that dominates society, her apperception of the problem exhibits a greater intelligence and understanding of the Brave New World.

She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them”(Brave New World ch.3 pg.31).They made Lenina look like a low standard girl that they took advantage of because males are the dominant sex and they don´t care at