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
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