Roles Of Women In Brave New World

A women's job in the 1920s was to be chained to her house and abide by the unwritten laws of being a woman. Women were stuck in various rituals and traditions that only benefited the men of the world. In 1931, a novel named Brave New World was published by a man who made a utopian society where everyone was "equal" and science was all everyone believed. In the utopian society sex was acceptable, even encouraged, to have it at a young age. The novel went against everything society in 1920 stood for and was a disturbing culture shock for people; but if you look closely, a Brave New World wasn't that different from their society. In the novel, Aldus Huxley portrays women as inferior by using gender roles, birth control, and a woman's worth;

In order to control the population growth, the remaining ovaries would be uses to create humans in a lab or hatchery. The sterilization of females can hint that the world state does not want to put a life in the protection of a women (Chasemills 1). Throughout the novel we here about all the ways a women can stop herself from getting pregnant, but we never hear anything about how a guy can stop himself from creating life. The men do not take and medication or sterilized (Tais 4). The women who do not get their ovaries removed must use contraceptives because promiscuity was socially desirable (Handle 2). A women’s choice is removed in this novel. Huxley predicted the innovation of birth control which has been a huge liberation for many women (2). However in women in this novel do not get to choose to have a child or not; the women are simply told you cannot and that is not liberation at all (2). Yet another use of birth control the world state would inflict on the women was the Malthusian belt (Chasemill 1). This is just another way the government controls the population (1). This form of birth control has not failed the world state yet so why should they stop (1)? This is the mentality that is uses throughout the

In actuality he brought his own society into the utopian society. Women are still considered to be sex objects or all the same (Kon 3). The women usually don’t start the sexual acts but fallow the men who initiate having sex. In Huxley’s society women are viewed as lesser then men and only purpose in life is “child bearing and feeding they have no other reality (Leskoseki 1).” Even though Huxley tried to make an equal society he failed because the problems with his society was so deep rooted he didn’t even know they were there. The women in a Brave New World are also compared to meat and inanimate objects throughout the novel; every characterized female are also exactly alike (Handle 3). Keeping all the women similar keeps the importance of lack of individuality throughout the novel (Tais 10). Linida and Linda are practically the same person; they both rely on soma (government issued drug) and are what you would call a success from the brain washing. For example, Linda and Linida were both taken to the savage reservation by their current spouses. Since they are the only female characters this could hint that Huxley views women as all the same and are mindless, powerless, and impressionable (Handle 2). Slut shaming was also introduced to the utopian society; for instance when Linda was talking about her experience at the savage reservation she explained that she