In the 1890’s the psychologist Sigmund Freud said that if you repress your sexual desires it builds up inside of you and can divert itself into damaging channels. In Brave New World children are put through an extensive conditioning process where they are subject to ‘erotic play’ and hypnopaedia. Science In Huxley’s 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. 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 ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’.
Huxley’s Brave New World is a darkly satirical novel that uncovers and shows the weaknesses of society (mainly American) in 1932 with ‘pneumatic flappers’ and jazz clubs which, in Huxley’s mind, lack meaning and are too casual. The next day, he hangs himself in shame.Presentation of sex and sexuality in Brave New World brave new world is a dystopian novel about an authoritarian regime and how they control people, in it there are characters that resist the leadership. When the World State media and curious spectators start flocking to the lighthouse, including Lenina, he ends up sparking a massive orgy. Accordingly, he soon moves into a remote lighthouse, where he can be alone and self-sufficient, practicing austerities like whipping himself if he becomes too cheerful or daydreams of Lenina.
JOHN A BRAVE NEW WORLD FREE
When he’s arrested, he debates Mustapha Mond at length about the importance of truth versus happiness and stability, arguing that he’d rather be unhappy and free than living under World State slavery. He is attracted to Lenina, but he is repulsed by the promiscuous sexuality she’s been conditioned to practice, and he turns on her when she tries to seduce him, repeatedly hurling the Shakespearean insult “strumpet.” After Linda dies from soma abuse, John stages a brief rebellion in the hospital vestibule. John is eager to see the World State, since his mother describes it as a paradise, but once there, he thinks that World State culture is immoral, infantilizing, and degrading to humanity. He spends the first 20 years of his life on the Reservation, and though the Reservation natives treat him as an outsider, he still picks up their religious and moral values (like the importance of self-denial and a belief in monogamous marriage), and develops a love of Shakespeare, whom he quotes frequently. John is born to a woman from the World State, Linda, who gets stranded in a Savage Reservation in New Mexico.
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