Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In the Novel Brave New World, there are many different subject and themes that portray the plot. The subject and theme of the utopian story is based on several ideas, but one in particular is the pursuit of happiness carried to an extreme.

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, a new society is created to secure happiness for all the people living in it. By doing this, they sacrifice truth, choice, family, science, and art. The government provides them with everything they need to be happy in life because they agreed to give up complete control of their lives. If I were given the choice, I would live in the world we live in now rather than the Brave New World. Like John, a “Savage” born outside the world and then brought into it, I think, “Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here” (Huxley 179). Even though there would be times when I am uncomfortable, unhappy, in pain, even though I would have to experience loss and disappointment, at least I would be living a full life full of emotion and some purpose.

Imagine a world where happiness is given to you. Happiness is not worked for nor earned, you just get it. Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, is a novel written in 1932, where Huxley predicts the future of humankind. At the time, Henry Ford was famous for the cheap mass production of the T-model cars using the assembly line. Thus, Huxley predicts a future in which people from the World State(the society he predicts the future will hold) are engineered in test tubes and conditioned to be one of the castes in their society. In this society, the characteristics and emotions that makes humans human are banned. Families, love, passion, literature, natural birth, religion and monogamy are banned because

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you 've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

Today, one 's perceptions of happiness are more often than not associated with material achievements, advancements, or perhaps, love. In Brave New World, however, happiness is based upon the pursuit of stability and emotional equilibrium Aldous Huxley 's dystopian novel, Brave New World serves as a warning of the ominous. Set in London, the totalitarian regime instills the motto of "stability, community, [and] identity"(Huxley.1.1) in its citizens. Huxley 's dystopia attempts to find the greatest amount of happiness for the largest sum of people. The simple, less complex characters of the novel seek to achieve happiness through means of scientific conditioning, thus, leaving one

Happiness a word in which many want to hear and want as part of their life. Take Brave New World a society that was built on happiness and perfectionism. Brave New World is like The United States because the United States is called one of the greatest countries in world. Where everyone wants to live and strive the american dream, while brave new world is a society that everyone has certain role and in order to feel happy without feeling depressed they have soma, sex, stabilty, ford, and conditioning. All these elements contribute to happiness the key word to a perfect society called Brave New World.

Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, is a futuristic dystopian novel based upon science and technology. The society created in the work produces humans with specific qualities to make sure that everyone fits into the system. The overall happiness of the people is favored above the rights of the individual. “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. And of course whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered” (Huxley, 228). The women’s rights movement seeks the advancement of socialism and the expense of individual rights, just as the “Brave New World” described in Huxley 's book sacrifices the rights of man for the contentment of society.

Happiness is considered to be one of the best emotions in life, after all, it is happiness. Everyone likes to be happy; smiling, laughing, feeling that euphoric high. In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley illustrates that society can create artificial happiness through the government's control of the individuals within the community. The World State manipulates the public through conditioning from infancy, caste order and inhibiting problems. By conditioning the nation, the government ensures that the population does what they are meant to do and that there will be no complications.

“Brave New World” is a novel written by Aldous Huxley about a utopian world where there is only infinite sex, drugs, and happiness. The people in this society are happy and content with their lives, but in this society things such as art, emotions, love, a strong sense of family, and many other things are just sacrificed, and thrown away to preserve this everlasting peace. The characters in this book are struggling to embrace this ideal society or just simply reject it. I believe that Aldous Huxley wants us to ask ourselves if we would give up our most important values for happiness, but I think that Huxley would say that he would rather suffer than be happy.            Huxley shows this idea through one of the characters in the novel John.

From floating obstacles courses to movies that make you literally feel the characters sensations, and more, Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World offers a peculiar yet interesting story that very much relates to modern times. The book is set in a future Utopia, but the advanced technology isn’t the only thing that’s changed. People in the society of the book, the World State, have a very loose grasp on what truth and happiness really are. These interesting relationships prove just how incompatible truth and happiness can be. In society as a whole, truth must be chosen over happiness in order to obtain a self-reliant, thriving population; however, in today’s world, individual happiness is often chosen over truth by way of inhibiting substances.

Many individuals desire to have happiness in their life. Whether it is forced or naturally there to help ones mental or physical state. However, in Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, he introduces that the world, called the World State, people- called the simple lifers, are taught that “everybody is happy now.” In the World State, not everyone is “always happy,” even though they have systems to provide that, it is not effective.

The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932 is known for its social satire, utopian values, and unusual standpoints on stereotypical gender roles. In this time where futuristic technology has completely taken over, and men and women are given the same opportunities for everything, “the genders appear equal within the social order; both men and women work at the same jobs, have equal choice in sexual partners, and participate in the same leisure pursuits” (March 53). Huxley makes for a rather interesting feminist; “he was not only concerned about making women equal to men, he was also deeply concerned with the effects of technology and globalization on the quality of life for both genders” (Douglas-McMahon 21). However, there are many different sections of his novel that prove he was unable to fully rid of gender roles because of the time period in which he lived. Many of the stereotypical gender roles discussed in this book are also multiplied or switched rather than abolished. In his attempt to rid of stereotypical gender roles, Huxley manages to revolutionize, make fun of, and reconstruct them all in one breath.

“No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.” Many would agree with the words of William Ellery Channing, a leading theologian of Unitarianism, but not Mustapha Mond or any of the other powerful personnel of the World State. They believe strictly in community, identity, and stability, willing to do almost whatever it takes to uphold those values in their society, willing even to eliminate individuality among the people. Under the belief that individualism obstructs a society's ability to remain stable and constantly happy, that is exactly what the World State does. Through a process of conditioning it brainwashes the youth into believing only the ideologies and morals the World State wishes them to. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Lenina and her peers are raised to believe in and act in accordance to the morals of the

This novel suggests that there is more to life than just happiness; Brave New World insinuates that readers should seek freedom, knowledge and love in life. Huxley implies that without these fulfilling emotions and feelings, readers will be subject to a dreary and repetitive life.