Similar to Ford, Huxley develops Sigmund Freud as a highly respected and admired figure in the World State. Citizens follow Freud’s beliefs about sexuality and infantile behavior by behaving wanton. People are expected to be promiscuous and have multiple partners at one time as those who only have one partner will be subjected to inquiries by the government. Freud, known as “Our Freud” to the World State, believed children were sexually attracted to their parents thus exposing the “dangers of family life” (Huxley 39). The World State disowned families so citizens would become detached and emotionless and therefore easier to manipulate. According to Robert Fulford, he also believed in “monthly sexual cycles” which lasted “23 days for men” and “28 days for women” …show more content…
Consequently, the World State enforces promiscuity in order to level these sexual cycles and any possibility of instability in order to solidify control. In the current world, people’s views on sexuality have changed as the traditional Christian view of being abstinent until marriage have disappeared. Correlating with the modernization of contraceptives, humans are more sexually active. By going directly against conventional views of sexuality, people are opposing the typical Christian view as predicted by Huxley. In order to solidify the turn away from traditional religious values, Huxley introduces the reader to John the Savage. John lived on a reservation for those who were not incorporated into the World State. John is the son of a former member of the World State who became lost on the reservation and gave birth to John. He travels to the World State as part of a science experiment and to see the magnificent world his mother has described to him however, what he finds is horrifying. John feels society has “poisoned [him]” and he “was defiled” by the wretchedness of