Why do different cultures around the world all choose to neglect women in their society, of equality, when their population is equal to the male population ? It has been proven that women are more likely to live in poverty, live without education, and face other barriers because of their gender. Various cultures and societies create these other barriers under the influence of a patriarchal society, which asserts beliefs of male dominance and authority over women. Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World presents the reader with an "ideal" society set in the future, 632 years after Ford's death. Society is controlled by a global state which asserts its beliefs through hypnopedic conditioning. Feminist theory is a type of criticism that analyzes the ideologies of a patriarchal social system within various texts. This essay will endeavor to prove that a major theme of this novel is that women exist simply as possessions to be controlled. Feminist theory can be used as a lens to examine this central theme by relating it to the c...