Brave new world 5
Brave new world 5What a life, it would be great. I would love it if nothing ever changed, if everyone had a set role that they always carried out, and if life and death were planned. This would be like living the life of most of the characters in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. This entire book is devoted to "Community, Identity, and Stability" (Huxley 1). It is supposedly a life free from worry and change, but still with a variety of different things. It may sound pretty enticing to live this way, but there were many dilemmas to deal with. The source for most of the problems was the society chosen for them to live in. In Brave New World's society, family life tied with a strong marriage was looked down upon. This society had abolished anything that had to do with the ideas of monogamy or a family as we practice in today's society.
Monogamy, a big part of family life tied with a strong marriage, definitely was not practiced in this society. The people in this society were taught that everyone belongs to everyone, so everyone was free to please themselves. This shows that the people were brought up learning that sex with multiple partners was a belief practiced by everyone. "Have somebody else from time to time, that's all. He has other girls doesn't he" (Huxley 41). This quote is talking about Lenina's relationship with Henry. At this point, they had been "having" each other for almost four months. This was very unusual for this society. It was unheard of to have sex with only one guy for that long of a period. Sex was just looked at on a different level in this society. "Sex has been dissociated at long last from procreation, and freed to compete on equal terms with other amusements" (Dyson 252). This quote sums up how sex was viewed in this society. Sex was viewed on a level of entertainment for the people, not on a level of creation...
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