Beauty In Brave New World Essay

In the novel by Aldous Huxley one of the most fascinating aspects of Brave New World, was the treatment of beauty. In the world we live in today everyone is aware of the demands for young women in terms of physical appearance and beauty. From a young age we are introduced to these standards of beauty and what it takes to be considered “beautiful”, this leads us walk into our teen years obsessed with what we should become or what otherwise we’ve been demanded to become. Now the question becomes, are we on a path to where beauty will someday be addressed the way it is in the novel? I believe we are closer than farther to this future which seemed impossible less than 20 years ago. We color our hair, we paint our faces with makeup, and we starve ourselves, go through painful cosmetic surgeries. All these dangerous and extreme procedures just so we feel better accepted. In the novel there is a moment where the World State Citizens reaction to Linda’s appearance. Linda was with the savages for decades therefore she did not have access to cosmetics or surgeries, all these things which were available for people in the New World. So seeing Linda with a wrinkly and

In the novel people are born with a place in their society. This is just more proof of how far the World state citizens are willing to go in order to insure the beauty and order. They are using biotechnology to reproduce a race of superior humans, in this case they were Alphas, superior by appearance and ability. This may sound insane but who guarantees that this won’t be possible in a couple of years if it hasn’t already.it may not be for beauty purposes but for physical superiority I believe it to be very much possible. In order to gain advantage in a war like setting it would be quite smart to have a group of soldiers with the physical advantage to overpower any of the