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The provocations of Lenina in Huxley's Brave New World.(how Aldous Huxley's misogyny affects characterization)(Critical Essay)

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From: International Fiction Review
Date: 20020101
Author:Higdon, David Leon

As befits a Juvenalian satirist, indignantly, bitterly, misanthropically chastising his culture, Aldous Huxley often expresses outright disgust with the entire human species. In Antic Hay (1923), his second novel, an anonymous old man tells Theodore Gumbril, the protagonist, as they look at London's suburban houses, "What disgusts me is the people inside the architecture. The numbers of them, sir. And the way they breed. Like maggots, sir, like maggots. Millions of them, creeping about the face of the country, spreading blight and dirt wherever they go; ruining everything." (1) He ...

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