Brave New World By Aldous Huxley - 1781 Words

Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, is a futuristic dystopian novel based upon science and technology. The society created in the work produces humans with specific qualities to make sure that everyone fits into the system. The overall happiness of the people is favored above the rights of the individual. â€Å"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. And of course whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered† (Huxley, 228). The women’s rights movement seeks the advancement of socialism and the expense of individual rights, just as the â€Å"Brave New World† described in Huxley s book sacrifices the rights of man for the contentment of society.†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"The two railway stations burned today were Saunderton and Croxley Green. Both are heaps of ruins. Two placards were found at Sunderton reading, ‘Votes for Womenâ €™ and ‘We are burning for the vote.’† This was written on March 11, 1913 by the New York Times. Unsurprisingly, these acts had major negative effects on the goals women had. Politicians and citizens alike would use the suffragettes and their acts as a reason against giving women the right to vote. There were a few major ideas the suffragettes fought for. The most recognized idea was the right to vote. What isn’t told in our history books is why women didn’t get to vote. Getting to vote was originally given to people who were in the draft. If you could get drafted into war, you should have the right to vote. Unlike men, women didn’t have to face the risk of getting drafted into the war. In Sparta, the former city-state of ancient Greece, if a women became a warrior for the state she would get all of the rights the men had. Not to mention, she would be given an enormous amount of honor. Of course, there is good reason women don’t get drafted. They are physically inferior to men. This is because women never had a need to be powerful and do physical labor. Females naturally evolved to take on a different role. The men would go out and hunt for food while the mother