Happiness In A Brave New World

Attention Materials: Many times I have wondered what is true happiness. Is there such thing as true happiness? Can it even be attained if there is such a thing? Is it more of fulfilling desires, or satisfying psychological needs? Every person attempts to realize happiness in its fullest essence. It seems like today people are too busy trying to get rich. Nowadays it is believed that happiness lies in that new mansion, or a nice Ferrari. People are mistakingly assuming that wealth will bring to them a personal significance in which they will achieve happiness.

He wants everyone to feel the emotions that you would normally deal with through life and experience life as it should be experienced normally. John starts yelling to the people in the Dying Hospital about the soma when they were about to pass it out, claiming it is poison and it is trapping them and turning them into slaves. He then proceeds to throw the soma out the window while Deltas start to run over to him, while he still continues to throw the soma away and then shows the emptiness of the box. " "Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

The true meaning of happiness is different for everyone. For most people, it is feeling satisfied with every aspect of their life. The society of Brave New World does not know the true meaning of happiness because they have never had any form of true conflict show up their lives. When trouble comes up in their life, they avoid fixing it by taking soma. By taking soma, they base their happiness off a fake reality, therefore, it creates no true relief. Not having any form of conflict in their life creates a problem within itself because then they never get to experience true joy.

When we look to define happiness, many different ideas come to mind. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary uses three definitions for happiness: good fortune, a state of well being and contentment, and a pleasurable satisfaction. In Brave New World, Aldus Huxley argues that a society can redefine happiness through the government’s manipulation of the environment and the human mind itself. The government accomplishes this by mind conditioning throughout the process of maturing, keeping a caste-based society, and obliterating problems. The government thus defines happiness as the absence of all conflict. This differs from happiness as the American society sees it: the ability to pursue and enjoy individual desires.

Brave New World, acknowledges government control which results in the failure of a society. It is a world created where everything is under control, being observed, and synthetic. The society was manufactured in a test tube therefore, it was factory made. The people were born and developed in the test tubes, so their human nature became adapted so an individual cannot identify or approach it. Every little detail of a person's life is prearranged. These people's lives revolve around their community, their existence, and security; never their individual happiness. They are basically living for their society as a whole. This society was designed to be successful but it failed to give people their individuality. The individuals sacrificed

Survival may be one of the natural instincts in human beings, but it can and sometimes will be overcome by other powerful emotions. John's initial struggle for survival is suppressed by his overwhelming love for his wife. He becomes involved when his wife's name is mentioned in court, and her life becomes endangered. John does a complete turn around on his perspective of the situation. He goes from being completely isolated, to attempting to take control of the situation. However, his initial failure to do the right thing from the start caused this plan to fail.

Ray Bradbury defines happiness rather well in his dystopian science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. The general definition of happiness in Fahrenheit 451 is that; if the government can suppress information about other countries,destroy all of the books in the country,and keep people from getting too smart to actually understand what’s going on everyone will be happy. This definition of happiness is a new and interesting take on what happiness is, or at least how to both achieve and maintain happiness. The first time Bradbury Expresses his definition of happiness in the book is in the beginning when we see what the purpose of a fireman is, which is to burn books that make people unhappy, but it is not only limited to books that make people unhappy they burn all books. By doing this people have no way to learn new ideas that could disagree with the government or cause civil unrest.

Within the book titled Brave New I’ve noticed that a perfect world doesn’t really exist. Within all perfection, there must be at least one flaw. In the book, which dealt with a perfect world, had a flaw. That flaw was the knowledge that different mindsets existed. Mindsets such as Mustapha’s and John’s were the example.

What truly does give man happiness? Are there any obstacles that stop man from getting happiness? Man finds happiness and purpose through freedom and being able to choose. Some obstacles that may stop man from achieving happiness is falling to the pursuit of pleasure, higher authority exhibiting control on man, and the laws of civilization hinder man from true individual choice. When chasing happiness, a large obstacle people run into is pleasure.

In the novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the culture of the World State puts a lot of emphasis on the idea that consumption leads to happiness. The World State endorses this ideology to promote the economy and prevent its citizens from seeking alternative forms of happiness. This problem is not only present in Brave New World but is also relevant in our real-world society. The increased pressure to consume more to achieve happiness causes a deprivation of individuality and spirituality in the population. The loss of such traits would be devastating to the creative arts and philosophies of life.

Happiness and truth, though seeming similar, are distinctly unique. Happiness is the fulfilment of desires and aspirations whereas truth is the fulfilment of questions and knowledge. Brave New World demonstrates a society in which fully obtaining one is accomplished only by completely abandoning the other. Helmholtz, a propaganda technician, was plagued by an unusual thirst for truth. He realized that happiness only blinded him from the truth, stating that some form of “madness and violence” (169) were the inspiration for Shakespeare’s words, not any blissful ignorance.

From the moment of birth, to the moment of death, humans are flooded with emotions both good and bad. Individuals are continuously seeking fulfillment, some failing to find it while others succeed. Many seek adoration; love, accomplishment and greatness. In literature, authors take the readers on journeys that allow imagination, granting the possibility for the reader to grasp inner desires and decide what is truly important in life. Literature allows readers to dive into a different world where happiness and fulfillment is plentiful and eternal, also described as a utopia, while other pieces of literature direct the reader into a world of dissatisfaction which is a dystopia. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is in 26th century England. With

True happiness is theoretical. If someone were to actually set happiness as a goal, they would not be successful in achieving it because of the things they would have to give up in order to be “happy,” like jealousy, insecurities, judgment, etc. But they can’t just get rid of these human emotions. True happiness would require the elimination of human emotions.

The story of the movie The Pursuit of Happyness directed by Gabriele Muccino portrays a family who struggles with finding enough money to pay taxes and afford living expenses. The movie takes a place in San Francisco during the 80s. The two main characters are the father Chris Gardner and his son Christopher, Will Smith and Jaden Smith respectively. Gardner tries to support his family. But every time he attempts to make things better, they always end up worse. Gardner in the story wonders on "how to be happy?" He earns his money by selling the bone density

People will always tell you that you should do what makes you happy, and this is why our minds are clouded with the idea that happiness is the main purpose of life. However, we rarely ask ourselves if there can be happiness without love, arts, or dreams. In Brave New World, a novel written by Aldous Huxley, we are faced with this question. The book deals with an allegedly perfect society in which it's main character, John, did not belong. This outcast was constantly reflecting upon how society was not perfect at all. John criticized the fact that people were happy even without love, arts, or dreams. In the new order, there was a mistaken concept of happiness, a shaped reason in people's minds, and a suppression of love in order of maintaining