Love is like the ability to breath air, it’s a right that people take for granted. When thinking about a person’s inalienable rights, love isn’t the first thing to come to mind. In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley draws the reader into a society where being in love is prohibited. Through Lenina’s conversation with Fanny relating to her and Henry’s relationship, Huxley conveys to the audience that love is a fundamental right that shouldn’t be denied.
In the novel, Lenina and Fanny have a conversation about Lenina’s growing relationship with Henry Foster. Fanny is concerned with Lenina’s relations with Henry as they have been seeing each other for months, which stems from the fact that it is prohibited in their society to be in a long term relationship. It is apparent that Lenina has feelings for Henry; however, she can’t fully act on them due to society’s restriction on relationships. This restriction may seem absurd to the audience who would typically have the right to feel emotion to whomever they choose. In reality, people aren’t normally limited to being in short relationships because being in love is normal, and it is an important emotion that every
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Lenina’s obvious feelings for Henry are quite normal in the eyes of the reader, but to someone in the novel, they are a danger to society. In A Brave New World, the people are robbed of all “distracting” emotions such as love, or desire, or anything that might stand in the way between them and the jobs that they are assigned. By ridding these emotions, Huxley is able to reveal his belief on how important love is to humanity. The characters in the book are created to repulse the audience and force them to consider just how crucial primary emotions are to a person. Without love, humanity would be lost, and that deems it worth fighting