Ban Brave New World The removal of Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, from high school libraries is necessary. Brave New World is exposing high school students, who are not adults, to mature content. Although this content is relevant to the plot of the novel, it is too graphic and suggestive for high school students. The abuse of drugs and constant sexual content within the novel is not positive for high school students. These scenes can be interrupted differently than Huxley intends. In Brave New World, soma is a coping mechanism. Soma is used to cope with the realities of life the people of the society face. Soma’s use is clearly evident when Lenina and Bernard are in the harsh conditions and realities of the Savage Reservation. Lenina says “I wish I had my soma.” (Huxley 116) Instead of
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Again Huxley intends to use these sexual situations to convey the damning qualities of this society, but these scenes may be suggestive to a high school student who is aimlessly reading the novel. The society of the novel is taught to be sexually active at an extremely young age: “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes.” (27) Sex within Brave New World is common. In the society, sex is not an intimate part of a relationship; it is an “orgy-porgy.” (84) The society’s citizens partake in sex regularly as if it means nothing. For example, Lenina has been with many men, and sadly these men want her for nothing more than her body. They are objectifying her as an object for sex, and they label her a piece of “meat.” (45) High school students are very impressionable. If a high school student reads that the society in Brave New World promotes the promiscuity of its citizens without any repercussions then what is to stop the high school student from participating in similar actions? How will this novel dissuade high school males from objectifying women if levying repercussions do not happen to the
Again Huxley intends to use these sexual situations to convey the damning qualities of this society, but these scenes may be suggestive to a high school student who is aimlessly reading the novel. The society of the novel is taught to be sexually active at an extremely young age: “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes.” (27) Sex within Brave New World is common. In the society, sex is not an intimate part of a relationship; it is an “orgy-porgy.” (84) The society’s citizens partake in sex regularly as if it means nothing. For example, Lenina has been with many men, and sadly these men want her for nothing more than her body. They are objectifying her as an object for sex, and they label her a piece of “meat.” (45) High school students are very impressionable. If a high school student reads that the society in Brave New World promotes the promiscuity of its citizens without any repercussions then what is to stop the high school student from participating in similar actions? How will this novel dissuade high school males from objectifying women if levying repercussions do not happen to the