It was amazing to everyone that Huxley imagined a world 500 years in the future with so many technological advances, yet he could not imagine a world where women could drive themselves around. The sexism was, to most of us, the worst aspect. None of our modern readers enjoyed this book. I read Brave New World and it was an experience akin to swimming through molasses. Today, people all over the world discuss which is the better book: Brave New World or Nineteen Eighty-Four. I missed it at school and university and it seemed an unforgivable hole in my literary knowledge. I was excited to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley for my book club. Perhaps one of our readers would like to take that on in another article? In addition, I have not even touched on the racism in Brave New World. It is not a review or a take-down of the book. It is just one example of thousands of novels I could have chosen. Meanwhile some writers have pretended women do not even exist except to arrange the meals of their male characters.Īlas, then we have men who are lauded for their incredible talent, amazing characters, wonderful writing skills, and their attacks on women are swept quietly under the carpet because, oh well, that is just how men were.īefore I go on I want to make a point that I’m using the novel Brave New World as a vehicle to explore the way people ignore sexism in popular novels. Many, many male writers have helped advance women’s role in society immeasurably by supporting female writers, by creating compelling female characters and by being good people generally. Sadly, there seems to be an idea that, well, men were just like that back then. We discuss misogyny a lot because we find it all through the classics.
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