Blog #5 Laura Romero

I am going to do my paper on the novel A Brave New World by Aldos Huxley. This novel is set in London. It is about a new type of world ran by a dictatorship after a Nine Year War, that wipes out all of civilization. There is a Caste System, there are 10 controllers that have all the power and maintain peace by conditioning infant mind, and soothing adults', by giving them soma. In this new world, there is no such thing as marriage, and babies are not born naturally, they are manufactured in an embryo factory called Hatcheries. They have no reproductive or sexual rights. Two-thirds of the women are sterilized, they have their ovaries removed, while the others are required to be on contraceptives, and when new humans need to be produced they remove their ovaries as well. It is against  state rules to date one person longer than a certain amount of time, and two of the main characters, Lenine Crowne and Henry Foster, have been doing just that. This society is all against manogamy, and all about promiscuity. Nothing is intimate and the mother father relationship, is considered pornographic. Lenina and another main character Bernard go to New Mexico, were the Savage Reservation is. While they are there, they meet Linda and John, a mother and son that were exiled to the Reservation. Linda was once with on of the controller, and therefore John is the son of the controller. Bernard decides to bring Linda and John back with them to the New World. This causes a lot of distruction in London, not only for the people/ town, but for the controllers as well.
The dystopia in this novel is that the government is controlling everyones reproductive and sexual rights. They do not allow them to be monogomous, give birth to children, or even raise them as a family. The people of London have absolutely no say in anything that has to do with sexuality in their own life. The government watches everyone to make sure that they are not dating someone for too long and to ensure their promiscuity.
The lens i will be using is Feminism since it deals so much with reproduction. I might throw in some marxist and psychological things in there but I am for sure doing feminism.
I am still working on the sources.