Brave New World

David Leon wrote, The Provocations of Lenina in Huxley's Brave New World, an article which criticized Huxley's hatred and belittlement of women in his novels. Leon focused on Huxley's book Brave New World, and on the character Lenina who Leon feels was disrespected which mirrors Huxley's feelings regarding women. In this article Leon gives several examples of how Lenina is loathed and made to be disgraced throughout the novel as well as

Leon's first sentence of the article starts off with a feeling of discontent and displeasure in the because of the ways that Huxley has repeatedly "expressed his outright disgust with the entire human species". Huxley's disgust with all people is evident throughout the book but even more is his hatred toward women apparent. It starts off by giving several examples of Huxley's distaste for women in his novels by providing the reader with specific quotes and examples of his hatred toward women. In Huxley's second novel he expresses through his protagonist that what disgusts him about the people is "the number of them… and the way they bread. Like maggots… like maggots. Millions of them, creeping about the face of this country, spreading blight and dirt wherever they go, ruining everything". Leon says that "Huxley reserved especial bile for the female of the species", which is shown in Brave New World by the character of Lenina. Lenina is a vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre and in this novel is seen to many men as an object of sexual desire. Leon does not agree with Huxley's view and actually thinks that he has an ‘imbalance in [his] vision". In Brave New World according to Leon, Huxley fails "to see that Lenina is more heroic in her resistance to the Fordian world than are the men his narrative praises". Leon goes at this novel from a different point of view, when many read Huxley's