In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol
Oates and the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, unique gender/sexual roles and disobedient actions are shown through the main characters’ features to defy the cultural status quo. Irony, juxtapositions, and foreshadowing are in each piece of literature to help the reader comprehend and compare what the author is saying about the characters and their motives now and in the near future. Readers can compare Connie, in “Where Are You Going, Where Have
You Been,” to Bernard and John, in Brave New World, because all are ignoring the rules, whether it is society for Bernard and John or her friends’ parents for Connie. Each character wants to be with the opposite sex …show more content…
He uses the ideologies of each place to compare them, for example the savages believing in God and the world state believing in Ford. (BNW, chapter 17, pages 230-231)
Oates writes “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” from a strong female standpoint. She makes Connie out to be this self-possessed, independent, carefree girl. Every female reader loves a confident, enticing protagonist, that we can relate to. Connie is out having her usual good time one night with her friends and a boy, when while walking to the car another boy was stalking her saying, “Gonna get you, baby.” She just kept going and acted as if it did not phase her. (WAYGWHYB, page 2, paragraph 7) Obviously, this alerts the reader that this adventurous teen is in store for a shocker here and foreshadows the events coming are unwelcomed. After Oates leaves the reader on edge with unsettling suspicion, Oates brings …show more content…
Connie disregards the gender role of always saying yes to men and voiced her thoughts of saying no, but her voice is unheard since she is a powerless female. This contrasts with how Huxley writes women and men as fairly balanced. At the beginning of Brave New World all the internal organs that standardly separate a male from a female are surgically cut out and used for massive reproduction. (BNW, chapter 1, page 5) Besides physical distinctions the reader can see that women and men are basically equivalent. Huxley does this to show that people in this world do not necessarily define you by being a male or female. However, they are all encouraged to be sexual beings at a young age, but not one sex truly controls that. If a woman wants to have intercourse with a man she will not receive judgement for that. Such as how Lenina wants to have sex with John, but he did not want her in a sexual way without marriage. (BNW, chapter 13, page 191) Huxley aims to make the readers see the specific scientific society, he depicted and
Oates and the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, unique gender/sexual roles and disobedient actions are shown through the main characters’ features to defy the cultural status quo. Irony, juxtapositions, and foreshadowing are in each piece of literature to help the reader comprehend and compare what the author is saying about the characters and their motives now and in the near future. Readers can compare Connie, in “Where Are You Going, Where Have
You Been,” to Bernard and John, in Brave New World, because all are ignoring the rules, whether it is society for Bernard and John or her friends’ parents for Connie. Each character wants to be with the opposite sex …show more content…
He uses the ideologies of each place to compare them, for example the savages believing in God and the world state believing in Ford. (BNW, chapter 17, pages 230-231)
Oates writes “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” from a strong female standpoint. She makes Connie out to be this self-possessed, independent, carefree girl. Every female reader loves a confident, enticing protagonist, that we can relate to. Connie is out having her usual good time one night with her friends and a boy, when while walking to the car another boy was stalking her saying, “Gonna get you, baby.” She just kept going and acted as if it did not phase her. (WAYGWHYB, page 2, paragraph 7) Obviously, this alerts the reader that this adventurous teen is in store for a shocker here and foreshadows the events coming are unwelcomed. After Oates leaves the reader on edge with unsettling suspicion, Oates brings …show more content…
Connie disregards the gender role of always saying yes to men and voiced her thoughts of saying no, but her voice is unheard since she is a powerless female. This contrasts with how Huxley writes women and men as fairly balanced. At the beginning of Brave New World all the internal organs that standardly separate a male from a female are surgically cut out and used for massive reproduction. (BNW, chapter 1, page 5) Besides physical distinctions the reader can see that women and men are basically equivalent. Huxley does this to show that people in this world do not necessarily define you by being a male or female. However, they are all encouraged to be sexual beings at a young age, but not one sex truly controls that. If a woman wants to have intercourse with a man she will not receive judgement for that. Such as how Lenina wants to have sex with John, but he did not want her in a sexual way without marriage. (BNW, chapter 13, page 191) Huxley aims to make the readers see the specific scientific society, he depicted and