lack of feeling is prevalent.Marriage, a foreign word in the society that Lenina and Richard Marx live in, but would they have married in our world. They had no true love, but who needs love in this day and age to get married? After becoming intimate Lenina could have become pregnant, after all she was fertile. Not uncommon to our society, people are forced to marry after a pregnancy. Love is never a factor in Brave New World and that mentality is making itself known in our world today. However, the fact remains that without love there is a void in every one of us, attempts to fulfill that space with several sexual partners{Dixon} often leaves us feeling worthless. Many people in our society have now adopted the attitude of Huxley's characters, 'Love them and Leave them'. Yet some people in Brave New World do show weakness, Richard Marx feels a need for Lenina, as Lenina feels a need for John the Savage. "This need to be valued, affirmed, cared for and understood appears on the day of birth and remains until the day of death. It is therefore a more constant drive than sex alone, yet often muddled with it. This search for love can drive some people to have more sexual partners but a far greater number have less..." {Dixon 3}This 'drive' is what makes Lenina need John. Her idea of love is sex, therefore to show her love and adoration for John she proposes sex. John is far more conservative; he has been trained to view monogamy as the correct pathway in life, like our society advocates. Yet a chosen few have strayed, multiple partners, once nearly unheard of, sparks a mild fascination in most people today. Once again the consequences are usually not thought of until too late, multiple partners means multiple pregnancies. So, do the children of today receive as much care and schooling to get them by in life as the children of Brave New World?Another aspect of the loss of love can be seen with the caretaking of our children. ...
