Dystopian literature is by nature critical hence, women’s inferiority along with the misuse of a gendered approach to technology highlights toxic patriarchy in the society. What is more, is the effect of technology on women which is portrayed through the image of utopia turned into dystopia: a society that mandates promiscuity in the name of civic duty in addition to the removal of the female body from childbirth. Lastly, Huxley warns the readers about what technology devoid of value could do to human beings. Furthermore, there is no place for religion, literature, and family values. In addition, the natural process of childbirth is controlled in test tubes. Utopia turns into dystopia when we witness the inferior role of women and the humiliation of the intellectual. On the other hand, he shows us the nightmarish utopia by the lack of moral values in the society.
On one hand, Huxley paints a picture-perfect society that is at the height of civilization with genetic and scientific advances.
But as we go on, we find that free thinking is limited or nonexistent by the manipulation of scientific advances like hypnopedia and genetic conditioning. The opening of the novel does not strike the reader as dystopian and certainly neither does the title.
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley shows us a society in which technological advances have changed the entirety of human life on earth.
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