Banned Books In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

There are hundreds of books that are on the banned books list because they are not appropriate or because they don’t follow our societal norms. Every year the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom fights to attempt to remove books from schools and libraries that they feel are not appropriate for children and citizens of the United States to read. Brave New World has been a controversial book since it was first published in 1932. Literature experts and parents have argued over and over on whether this novel should be banned. When it was first published Ireland banned the novel, however it has yet to be banned in the United States and still is a required book to read in many schools. The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley does not follow societal

In the “World State” the government wants to stop people from building relationships with other people because they want to take away the idea of love and marriage. To do this the government makes it normal and even encouraged for everyone to have sexual relationships with multiple other people at the same time. This idea does not follow our societal norms today because in tradition we learn that marriage and family is important and that we should always be faithful to our husband or wife. This novel goes completely against this societal norm and tradition because it actually forces people to not find love and to instead have sex with multiple other people. In the article by Christopher Cosans he states, “mocking our ideal that marriage is a sacred and vital experience.” Cosans quote shows that this novel is controversial because it mocks the idea of marriage and instead suggests that we should have sexual relations with many people. In the first chapter of the novel Huxley describes the youth’s training in which one of the boys is actually taught that it is rude to prevent a girls sexual advances on him. This is teaching the children that even if you don’t want to have sexual relations with another person that you should do it anyway because it would be rude not to. In society this is seen as morally wrong because everyone at least believes that people should be able to choose if they want to have sexual relations with a person or not. In a critical analysis of Brave New World Margaret Atwood states, “Scents are third - perfume wafts everywhere, and is dabbed here and there; one of the most poignant encounters between John the Savage and the lovely Lenina is the one in which he buries his worshipping face in her divinely scented undergarments while she herself is innocently sleeping,