In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley is predicting the many relationships that Aldous Huxley thought would be in our society today. There are many things from the world state that are accurate to today’s society and then there are some that have nothing to do with today’s society. But we are going to look at how personal relationships are similar or different from today’s society. Personal relationships in the book are nothing like they are in today’s society. In the BNW society all relationships and bonds between parents, friends, and partners are gone this happens because all humans are being born in science labs.
Let’s start with family in Brave new world Mother and Father for them is just like a cuss word for us it is not used because they don’t have families. Science has pretty much replaced, what they would call family other than the people that are around them. Children are raised by the state. This quote “But …show more content…
In Brave new world they don’t have boyfriends or girlfriends, they sleep with whoever they want and multiple people at once there is no jealousy if someone slept with someone you just slept with that wouldn’t be a problem because “ But every one belongs to every one else,’ he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb” (Huxley). And they are born to have no emotion this is because of the sleep teaching and the electric shock therapy they are purposely put through. What we think of as true love would interfere with the community and stability in Brave new world. Also in the Brave New World there are not allowed to be any pregnancy’s everyone is born in the lab. In today’s society that is not how it is and sleeping with multiple people just so that you are happy would be shamed upon and with relationships these days there is a lot of jealousy that goes on. The whole partner thing in Brave New World is the total
Let’s start with family in Brave new world Mother and Father for them is just like a cuss word for us it is not used because they don’t have families. Science has pretty much replaced, what they would call family other than the people that are around them. Children are raised by the state. This quote “But …show more content…
In Brave new world they don’t have boyfriends or girlfriends, they sleep with whoever they want and multiple people at once there is no jealousy if someone slept with someone you just slept with that wouldn’t be a problem because “ But every one belongs to every one else,’ he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb” (Huxley). And they are born to have no emotion this is because of the sleep teaching and the electric shock therapy they are purposely put through. What we think of as true love would interfere with the community and stability in Brave new world. Also in the Brave New World there are not allowed to be any pregnancy’s everyone is born in the lab. In today’s society that is not how it is and sleeping with multiple people just so that you are happy would be shamed upon and with relationships these days there is a lot of jealousy that goes on. The whole partner thing in Brave New World is the total