The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a book about a futuristic society where uninhibited sex is considered socially constructive, while monogamy, marriage, and everything that constitutes our idea of love are considered obscene and destructive to the well being of the society. The love that is experienced in this society is far different from the love that we experience now. The love in brave new world is clearly defined as sexual. The people have been brainwashed to see love only in relation to sex and soma.
The only thing that they have to compare sex to is soma and how much they “love” soma. The people in this society are more attached to their pills then they are to the people that they have sex with. So when in the book a woman “likes” a man what she really means is that she wants to have sex with him. Even the “love” songs in brave new world are about soma. “Put your arms around me… Hug me till you drug me, honey…
Kiss me till I’m in a coma,” (Huxley 194).
The people in Brave New World cannot even comprehend what our love would ever be like. Even Helmholtz when reading Shakespeare asks “Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about,” (Huxley 185).
The exciting and excruciating things that he is referring to are no more exciting than anything else in our world. He is refering to being in love with someone and the agony we feel at them being taken away from us. This is all a ver foreign subject to the people in Brave New World but for us in this society it is a part of life.
The Term Paper on Brave New World Huxley Society Book
Title: Brave New World Significance of Title: In Shakespeare's The Tempest, in act 5 scene 1, on line 204, Mira states: "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" To say the least, this book has quite a few references to Shakespeare. This segment in particular is used, because the setting of the book is of a 'brave new world' where almost everything is different from ...
The love today in our world has a clearly defined focus. It is supossed to be one way. IT is accepted that love is a man and a women having a real tionship then getting married having kids the whole bit. It is excepted and it is found in many cases romantic with kisses in public, moonlit walks, flowers candy and everything. That is what our society portrays love as. In fact though, this kind of love is implanted into our brains by the television, the radio, movies, and the media.
We are essentially brainwashed into seeing what love should look like and be like, much like the people in Brave New World. I think that it is possible to overcome this, but very, very hard. Every person in our society is expected to go through many different relationships. They are supposed to be hurt and be happy and feel all sorts of emotions.
This is all accepted when it is with the opposite sex, but as soon as it crosses to the same sex that’s when the our culture view it as obscenely as Brave new world would see marriage and parents. Our society has been conditioned to see love as one way and as soon as somebody steps out of the norm no one will accept it. In our society today to be a male and be gay is not accepted. A straight male in this society is so brain washed into think ing that being gay is disgusting that they would never even be able to realize if they had feelings for other men.
There are exceptions but for the most part, it is very hard for a straight man to admit to others, let alone himself, that he is gay. IT is looked down upon in this society, especially if this person has always been the stereotypical straight man. I do not think that in this case love can overcome the differences that we have. I most defiantly think that a straight man could fall in love with another man, but I do not think that they would ever be able to have any kind of a successful relationship in this society today.
The Term Paper on Post Industrial Society A Brave New World
Post Industrial Society: A Brave New World Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was born to a very scholarly family, most notably his grandfather T. H. Huxley, a well-known biologist and foremost advocate for Darwin's evolutionary theory. Aldous upbringing was shaped by many diverse influences, from his brother Julian, a notable biologist, to his mothers uncle Matthew ...
