Monologue And Analysis

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Monologue and Analysis

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Monologue

In Aldous Huxley’s 1936 “Brave New World”, happiness is the choice that that society had

made. Horribly pneumatic and gratified of her sexual allure, Lenina first seems to be a

conversational woman in the society in which pleasure, comfort, and materialism seem to be the

major values (Horan, 2018). However, as the novel progresses, she turns to be a conflicted

character and more complex than projected earlier.

Lenina, despite ailing from the disease called Lupus, she is a young and sexually attractive

woman. Like Henry Foster, she is a happy but shallow citizen. Lenina views happiness as the

utmost priority and the presence of sadness will crash the whole of her system. Lenina discovers

happiness and love for many years while in the Brave New World Society. However, unlike the

rest of her society members, Lenina is exclusive and prefers dating one man at a time. She

expresses a monologue feeling about her happiness when her Colleague asks her if she had been

dating Henry for all the four months. While blushing Scarlet using her hand and maintaining her

eyes and tonal voice defiant, she answers “No.” Notwithstanding, she suddenly changes her voice

questioning herself if indeed it was prudent dating only one man (p 30). But then she answers

herself,”….at thirty-five or forty it would be good…but your age….No…” (Huxley, 2002, p 30).

She feels it would be sad if Henry knew about it. Besides, THE D.H.C does not allow anything

long-drawn.

As the novel progresses, Lenina admits to her colleagues’ advice of dating more than one

man. “…Lenina Shook her head” somehow she agreed with Fanny that one had to be promiscuous

at times playing the ‘game’ of dating more than one man. Slowly and signing silently with her

head, Lenina squeezed Fanny’s hand saying, “….yes you are right, everyone belongs to

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everyone…..” (p 31). She then moves from dating Foster to Bernard, and the then to John. She is

used to instant satisfaction and emotionless sex. Just like all other citizens of the New World State,

she believes in sleeping with men whenever she wants or feels like as that makes her happy.

When Bernard approaches her, she has been dating Foster, who is working as a Hatchery

scientist. Lenina does not fall in love with Bernard but she likes. She then talks to herself saying

that falling in ‘love’ would be a sin, especially in this world where people have sex with everyone

for self-gratification (Huxley, 2002, p 31). She is actually happy having to go with Bernard, she is

a conforming is a sin in this world in which one has sex with everyone else, and she is a happy, a

conforming Utopian citizen. Her character has made her popular, and the fact that she also slept

with the savage, she is envied by everyone who wants to know how it feels like sleeping with the

savage.

Everyone seems to be obsessed with her, starting with Foster, Bernard, and now John. She

is not such intelligent, or interesting, or unique at best but Huxley characterizes her as pneumatic

and uncommonly pretty. She dislikes being Alpha or a Gamma because being either of them would

deny her freedom (p. 42). She also wants to sleep with John, whom she made at the reservation

while with Bernard. John happens to be the son of the Director, and that makes her more attracted

to him. Notwithstanding, John has already fallen in love with her but the fact that he follows the

old-fashioned idea of Shakespeare that lovers are meant to be pure, she does not want to sleep with

her.

Analysis

From the Monologue, I choose the words includes ‘love’ and ‘game’. These two words

are used to stress the fact that happiness as the utmost priority in the Brave New World society.

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For this Huxley, society happiness depends on individual happiness which can only be realized by

dating as many men as one will want. Similarly, falling in ‘love’ is not acceptable as this is

regarded as a sin.

In the Monologue by Lenina, Huxley (2002) uses the term Pneumatic as a metaphor,

meaning that Lenina is curvy, busty, and uncommonly sexy. The frequent use of this word to

describe Lenina is a reminder that she is an embodiment of the World State female. The words

‘everyone belongs to everyone is also used as imagery meaning that it is ‘normal’ to date more

than one man or woman within this society.

Lenina uses various types of figurative body language including a tonal voice variation to

express her feeling of happiness in her monologue. When her colleague named Scarlet enquires

from her if she has indeed been with only Foster for all the four months, Lenina Blushes Scarlet

and says yes but her tonal voice and eyes remain defiant (p 3). But then she suddenly changes her

voice of tone. Lenina says, “But seriously ….do you think that one must be careful? It is horrible

to be continuously dating only one man….” (p 30). This indicates even though she was young, she

was happy sleeping with Henry. Later she also shows she is happy going out with various men.

Lenina Shook her head” somehow she agreed with Fanny that one had to be promiscuous at times

playing the ‘game’ of dating more than one man. Slowly and signing silently with her head, Lenina

squeezed Fanny’s hand saying, “….yes you are right, everyone belongs to everyone…..” (p 31).

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References

Horan, T. (2018). The Sexual Life of the Savage in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In

Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction (pp. 71-92). Palgrave

Macmillan, Cham.

Huxley, A. (2002). Brave New World. 1932. London: Vintage.

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