Gender Roles In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is his most acclaimed work , and was published in 1932. It follows several characters through their lives in London under control of a futuristic society known as the World State. The novel takes place in the year 2540 AD, or 632 "After Ford" as the novel calls it, and focuses on a world revolving around production and productivity, The future depicted in Brave New World is one in which advancements have been made in most scientific fields to aid in developing technologies that increase productivity. Among these are developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning. All of these developments are used by The World State to ensure that its citizens are

As a world depending on the increase of productivity, it makes sense that the roles that men ascribe to in the World State are different from realistic roles men have ascribed to throughout history. Some anti-feminist critics have hailed the World State as the perfect utopia for men, and extol it as the perfect patriarchal society. However, I disagree on the grounds that, while the World state at first glance does present itself as a perfect patriarchal society, there are multiple instances in the novel that prove the World State to be more equal than one might first expect. While, there are certain roles that the men take which in real world society would typically indicate a patriarchal society, the roles that the character's take in Huxley's novel show that the World State is more complex than that, as well as closer to social equilibrium. The role of men in Huxley's Brave New World disqualifies the World State as both a misogynistic dystopia and a patriarchal utopia through characters like Helmholtz Watson, who live in the World State, and John the savage, who lives outside the World State, but also through the roles of men in general in the World

The World State has made vast amounts of social, economic, and medical progress which evenly affects both the male and female population. Socially both men are women are held to the same standard of social etiquette, and there seem to be little difference in there treatment based on gender. In the World State Women hold jobs that are befitting of men of the same social class. Finally, medically the World State has made