Feminism In Brave New World
Utopia evokes an image of paradise for humanity, where the everyday stresses for survival and success are washed away by the perfection of the ideal state for the human race, each individual predetermined in their roles in life. However, in Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World”, this imagined place of heaven on Earth is disturbing in its reverence for technology, need for promiscuity, and the suppression of new ideas, all for the betterment of this society, the World State. This is extended into the gender roles, whether it be a citizen's role in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, where humans are grown in test tubes, or everyday social interactions, both giving men and women two very distinct roles in this nirvana. With
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In Huxley’s “Brave New World”, the men exhibit a dominance over the female population, both physically and mentally in the workplace. During fetal development, the controller Mustapha Mond and the Director, whose job is to run the Hatchery where people are conditioned and grown, have implemented that two thirds of the women, ranked Beta or lower, in this utopia be sterilized. The other third are conditioned to acceptingly undergo surgical removal of the ovaries when the population is in need of new humans; these individuals are usually the females ranked as Alpha and Alpha-Plus. Females are conditioned at the workplace to accept this as a key part in fulfilling happiness in the World State, mentally being dominated by the teaching of Mustapha Mond and physically through sterilization and surgery. The male gender holds authority in the workplace because any position of power is filled with a male citizen in the World State, Mond and the Director being of highest standings, as if putting a female in power would disrupt the world’s happiness. The feminist movement of modern times would not allow for such conditioning or developmental mutilation and would protest for women’s right to have the opportunity to hold higher standing in the workplace to prevent these
In Huxley’s “Brave New World”, the men exhibit a dominance over the female population, both physically and mentally in the workplace. During fetal development, the controller Mustapha Mond and the Director, whose job is to run the Hatchery where people are conditioned and grown, have implemented that two thirds of the women, ranked Beta or lower, in this utopia be sterilized. The other third are conditioned to acceptingly undergo surgical removal of the ovaries when the population is in need of new humans; these individuals are usually the females ranked as Alpha and Alpha-Plus. Females are conditioned at the workplace to accept this as a key part in fulfilling happiness in the World State, mentally being dominated by the teaching of Mustapha Mond and physically through sterilization and surgery. The male gender holds authority in the workplace because any position of power is filled with a male citizen in the World State, Mond and the Director being of highest standings, as if putting a female in power would disrupt the world’s happiness. The feminist movement of modern times would not allow for such conditioning or developmental mutilation and would protest for women’s right to have the opportunity to hold higher standing in the workplace to prevent these