Lesbians, drug-fiends, nymphomaniacs, dipsos-thoroughly vicious nowadays, thoroughly vicious." (4) Indeed, he is correct so far as the women in the world of Antic Hay go, because they are depicted as dangerous predators, ranging from the serpent-like Rosie Shearwater to the "sullen and ferocious" Zoe, to the Sphinx-like, "bored" Myra who announces that "`to-morrow. They all in their hearts prefer beasts to men, savages to civilised beings," and the anonymous gentleman, watching Myra as she walks down London's King Street, acidly thinks: "Vicious young women. In Antic Hay, for example, Mercaptan tells Myra Viveash, "ces femmes! They're all Pasiphaes and Ledas. It is equally obvious, however, that Huxley reserved especial bile for the female of the species, whose presence provokes even more heated rhetoric. Five years later, in Point Counter Point (1928), this vision has deepened into the "modern Bestiary" of parasitical animals, who are "damned, destroyed, irrevocably corrupted." (2) Here Spandrell complains to Mark Rampion that the beings around them are "ambitious of being angels but all they succeed in being is either cuckoos and geese on the one hand or else disgusting vultures and carrion crows on the other," (3) excellent metaphors for a satirist become fabulist. Millions of them, creeping about the face of the country, spreading blight and dirt wherever they go ruining everything." (1) He then forecasts that the world will soon become "a pretty sort of bear garden. 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.
GradeSaver, 6 January 2010 Web.As befits a Juvenalian satirist, indignantly, bitterly, misanthropically chastising his culture, Aldous Huxley often expresses outright disgust with the entire human species. Previous Section Test Yourself! - Quiz 4 Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Smith, J.N. "The Utopian Tradition and Aldous Huxley." Science Fiction Studies 2(1975): 146-151. "Brave New World at 75." The New Atlantis. New York: HarperPerennial, 1989.Īldous Huxley. Copyright held by GradeSaver.Īldous Huxley. Updated and revised by Lane Davis January 06, 2010.
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