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What is the relationship between the different genders in Brave New World?

 

In today’s society women have worked their way up to be seen as equals or even better than men in some case, whether it be in work force, intellectual sense, or even physically/athletically. In Huxley’s brave new women seem to play an overall less powerful and important role than men, in the government and in the society in general. What is the difference between the roles of men and women in the Huxley’s Brave new world?

The men in Brave new world seem to have much more powerful roles throughout the society compared to women. The person in charge of all of the fetuses that are produced (the Director of Hatcheries) is a man. The most powerful person in the book, a world leader, Mustapha Mond, is also a man. Even the characters who start to build a little bit of reluctance to the utilitarian way of life in the society are men, those being Bernard Marx and Hemholtz Watson. Does Huxley do this to show that men are more capable of thinking outside the box so to speak, more so than women? Why are there no women mentioned in such positions of power like, director of anything, or world leader? What qualities do men posses that women don’t that allows them to be eligible for such positions of power rather than allowing a woman to fill that position?

For my paper that I do over the differences I’d like to try and answer all of the questions I stated above. I would like to go out and research the role of women in today’s society in more depth. I would also like to go out and research the role of women from the earlier years of civilization and see how much their role has changed throughout history, and whether it was for better or for worse. The final thing I would like to research is how women’s roles in society could progress or even regress during the future to see if it matches up with what Huxley describes it as in Brave New World. I think that would be the most interesting thing for me. I’d like to see how women’s roles as well as mens have changed throughout history and what correlations I can find to explain those changes. What where the roles of men and women over the years?  Have roles of men and women changed over the years? How have they changed? Or have they even changed at all? If they have changed, why have they changed?  Answering these questions will allow me to better pinpoint Huxley’s view points on the roles he has put his characters in.

                From what I remember in Brave New World men play a more powerful role such as Directors while woman play what I would call a facilitative role, being nurses and things like that, always being under the men. I would also be interested in seeing if these roles carry into the different castes that the people of the world state are placed into. I can’t remember if only certain genders do certain jobs, so I will have to go back and reread those sections and find out.

                That’s what I’d like to write my paper on, I think it is a good topic being that there are a lot of different views one can have on it, so hopefully I can do a good job of presenting each view.