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Criticism of Practical Application of Utopia in "Brave New World"

Debra Ackerman Mrs. Eileen Waite

        Criticism of Practical Application of Utopia in Brave New World Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World illustrates the loss of morality when established
standards are replaced by amoral criteria.  In his novel, Huxley criticizes the
practical applications of Utopia in actual society.  Huxley's depiction of love,
science, and religion support the ineffectiveness of implementing Utopia in
everyday life.

     In Brave New World, Huxley shows contempt for the human emotion of love.
The people that make up his imaginary society have no conception of love or any
other passion, and actually scorn the idea.  Huxley believes that along with
passion comes emotional instability.  The Utopian state cannot afford any kind
of instability and therefore cannot afford love.
     The destruction of the family is one example of the effect of Utopia's
absence of love.  In a world of bottled-births, not only is there no need for a
family, but the idea is actually considered obscene.  The terms "mother" and
"father" are extremely offensive and are rarely used except in science.
     Huxley uses Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, to portray the
vulgarity when he explains the obscenity of life before Utopia to a group of
students:

And home was as squalid psychically as physically.  Psychically, it was a rabbit
hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with
emotion.  What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene
relationships between the members of the family group! (37)

        In an earlier passage, Huxley shows the effects of Mond's explanation on
one boy, "The Controller's evocation was so vivid that one of the boys . . .
turned pale at the mere description and was on the point of being sick" (36).
     In reality, the family unit is the core of society.  Huxley realizes the
importance of the home and family.  A home is where people learn to establish
communication and relationships.  Without a family, a person cannot learn these
relationships which are invaluable in dealing with everyday life in society.
     In Utopia, any approach toward monogamy is forbidden and long term
sexual relationships are discouraged.  In the brave new world, it is taught that
"everyone belongs to everyone else."  Excessive sex with many partners is
considered normal and even expected.  In a conversation between two of the
female characters, Huxley illustrates Utopia's views on monogamy through Fanny
Crowne, "I really do think you ought to be careful.  It's such horribly bad form
to go on and on like this with one man" (40).  In Huxley's Utopia, having sex
with only one partner is not acceptable.
     Sexual pleasure in this world is greatly degraded.  Promiscuity is
considered a virtue, unlike actual society where promiscuous women are thought
to be trashy and cheap.  Children are taught at a young age to be exploratory in
their sexual behavior.  Children who seem timid and embarrassed about their
bodies are taken for psychological testing.
     Huxley criticizes the idea of the absence of love in Utopia.  In actual
society, love is a revered emotion.  Our society cannot exist without passion
because it is the foundation of all relationships.  Unlike Utopia, sexual
relationships cannot be degraded because they are the manifestation of love.
     Huxley's representation of Utopia in terms of technological evolution is
a world that is enslaved by science.  Everything in this world is owed to
science.  Huxley refers to scientific manipulation stating, "out of the realm of
mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human
invention" (1...

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