Presentation of Sex and Sexuality in Brave New World

presentation of enkindle and depend onuality in Brave New World brave new world is a dystopian clean about an authoritarian regime and how they control people, in it there ar characters that resist the leadership. Huxleys Brave New World is a darkly satirical novel that uncovers and leavens the weaknesses of society (mainly American) in 1932 with pneumatic flappers and jazz clubs which, in Huxleys mind, lack meaning and are too casual. The society uses sex and sexuality as a force to control the masses by removing all love in the act, by making it commonplace losing all meaning so they cant see the forest for the trees.Science In Huxleys novel plays a key role in how the sex and sexuality is portrayed in the book, it seems that science removes all emotions in everything. In Brave New World children are put through an extensive conditioning process where they are adequate to(p) to erotic play and hypnopaedia. In the 1890s the psychologist Sigmund Freud said that if you repress y our sexual desires it builds up inside of you and can divert itself into damaging channels.I believe that in this novel Huxley is satirising him saying that if everyone had sex like he is saying then this is what it would be like- On page 26 a little boy and girl of seven and eight respectively, were playing gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists Huxley describes the children as playing gravely or without emotion, I think that this is him trying to show us what this society has become one where children are forced to have erotic play, as seen when the little boy is crying because he doesnt destiny to play and secondly that these constant sexual encounters have dimmed the excitement, passion and love in the act of sex to a point where it has become mundane and un-magical.Another thing that Huxley satirises Freud about is his theory about how the family is the prime source of this inner conflict. In Brave New World there are no families and groundless living is encouraged, men and women are made in factories. I think the weeks supply of ova and standard men and women in uniform batches describes suddenly how Huxley thinks the world would be without families. Without them it would dehumanise so much so that we lose our identities and become standard men and women Men and women have a complicated blood in brave new world. Men are usually Alpha pluss and women are usually beta minuss, I think that that in itself shows Huxleys entirely chauvinistic attitude. Her smile flashed quickly at him (pg13) flashed readily portrays an image of automation, she does it without thinking showing an instant submission to him and that with that submission she is readily available. Again, and giving her two or three little pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself the director pats her on the quarter because in this society everyone belongs to everyone and he fancies her. This is another example of Huxleys inbuilt and unconscious ch auvinism, he has made it so the female characters all respectfully diverge to the men. In 1932 when Huxley wrote this hitting a girl on the bottom was shunned and offensive but in Brave New World it is accepted by everyone including Lenina because they are conditioned to have sex with everyone.When Huxley went to America he encountered what he described as the city of dreadful joy in Los Angeles where everyone had a hedonistic life style and went to jazz clubs and there were pneumatic flappers I think that Huxley is satirising them and giving a warning to us because that is what might happen in the future and Huxley believe that sleeping around like this is morally wrong and take all meaning out of sex. The Act of Sex in Brave New World is encouraged as much as possible because it is a particular, for particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness On page 58 some girls invite Helmholtz to a sashay. The picnic replaces the word sex which shows how amalgamated sex h as become in society. Sex has been integrated into everything thought, religious ceremonies, music, cinema, picnics etc. the society is very much so recreational and the people have become hedonistic.Huxley points this out because this kind of society American society has very loose morals too and is perhaps no the best way to go about progressing. The girls invite solo him and not anyone else its quite a suggestive thing to say, even desperate and they only invite him because he is hot. The society in this sense is very shallow and childlike. Sex is also practiced in mass orgies. Huxley uses metaphors to represent sex a lot like on page 66. The orgy is described using music which rises and climaxes with their climax. Huxley also employs a clever use of sibilance, in which the du fit is repeated to give a sense of heartbeats and increasing rhythm to show excitement. I think that Huxley writes about it in this way rather than being overt is ecause when this book was published th e content would have been shunned, but also to show again how sex has been integrated into everything It may seem odd that the government in Brave New World encourages sex, I think that the reason that they do is because the world motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTIY, STABILITY with its main point being constancy believes that happiness = stability and then sex = happiness. It is used as a measure to keep the people in line because whilst having sex and being happy they cant see the wood for the trees which is more subtly put with the slogan, for particulars, as everyone knows, makes for happiness and virtue which basically means that they shouldnt be able to see the large picture and stop being happy.To ensure that they only really focus on sex they have installed it into every aspect of their life. On page 66-67 Bernard goes to Westminster Abby in London where they sit around in circles of twelve and then start dancing and then having sex. I think that it is quite a disturbing scene, and i s by all odds something that most people back in 1932 and now would find disgusting. Huxley seems to be satirising everything now including religion with the twelve disciples and it being in Westminster. The whole book I think is satirising the Roman Catholic Church with the conditioning of people to believe something without question and how it leads to false happiness or happiness that is fabricated by person else and not of your own making.