![]() There are no relationships and therefore, children are no longer traditionally reproduced by a Mother and Father (“Bokanovsky’s Process”) within the World State because no two people can be together for a long period of time. In his utopian society, anybody can have sex with who ever they desire, while women wear a contraceptive belt (“Malthusian Belt”). Since this novel was written in the early 1900s, Huxley was living in the society where women were oppressed, therefore, it is not a challenge to understand why he made this a clear theme within his novel. Within Aldous Huxley’s prediction of the future, men are placed in the position of power and the women are to have no objection to their clear dominance. “Brave New World”, written in 1913 is a novel that explores ideas surrounding power in status and power in gender.
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