Beauty In Brave New World

Beauty is an adjective defined by pleasure and appeal, it is used in society as a way to define what is acceptable to be considered a sense of euphoria. In modern societies beauty comes in different forms but it all comes back to being one thing: youth. Youth is considered to be the epitome of beautiful, makeup companies are developing anti-aging products to help slow down the process of aging physically. In fashion, pastel colors and lightweight fabrics are popular in adult clothing. The culture of beauty has gone through phases and the one that seems to last the longest is the most harmful idea that youth, is beautiful. The culture of beauty is a hard topic to deconstruct because of how secretive the industry is. There is no definitive …show more content…
This depicts a separation of powers between the two genders. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World beauty takes a holistic approach and depicts a society favoring child-like actions and presenting them as a necessity for how to live and think. This demands women to inherit these traits over time (Wade). Throughout the novel, Huxley depicts a women of an old age being “[s]o fat...and all the lines on her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles…” (Huxley) ugly and undesirable. The way Huxley describes the feeling of looking at a women with “...enormous breasts [and] bulge of the stomach...much worse than the old man…” is similar to how Western society compares the way each gender should look. The advantage men have is they only have “two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man” (Wade: “Beauty and the Double Standard of Aging) and there are clear expectations of what each standard should look like and when men see a women “so touchingly childish...so trustful in the helplessness of her limp hands and...limbs…” (Huxley) the only thing that is worth thinking is how beautiful innocence and nativity is. Western society can be affected by this in the future