Happiness In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

The Brave New World society is filled with extremely happy people who know nothing. They live in a dystopian world, where there are no meaningful relationships or significance to their lives, but they do not know that. All they know is that they are happy. However, there is one character, John, who does know the truth, but he does not know happiness. When this character enters society, he knows nothing about, and is extremely excited to be apart of it, however the more he learns, the worse he feels. This up down relationship continues on until John commits suicide. The entire story of Brave New World creates this theme of through the slow fall of John. Page by page the reader can see how he loses his childlike excitement from when he realizes he is being used, to when his mother dies, to when he finally kills himself. This theme can be written into a mathematical equation, Knowledge = -Happiness. However, I do not completely agree with this theme, and it has been applicable in my life, but in a different way. To me, happiness does not go down further and further the more you

Aldous Huxley has a humanistic, deep and enlightened view of how society should be, and of what constitutes true happiness. In his novel, Brave New World, he shows his ideas in a very obscure manner. Huxley presents his ideas in a satirical fashion. This sarcastic style of writing helped Huxley show his views in a very captivating and insightful manner. The entire novel describes a dystopia in which intimate relationships, the ability to choose one's destiny, and the importance of family are strictly opposed. In Huxley's mind, however, these three principles are highly regarded as necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling existence.

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, it seems that nobody is happy. The characters of the novel perceive themselves as happy, but in reality it is only their imagination. People in this society, such as Mildred Montag, fill their days with superficial activities and as a result they became depressed. Mildred keeps herself busy by watching television all day, and refers to the characters as her family.

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury an important theme is happiness. The main character, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to burn books. Montag realizes the importance of the books he has burned and how happy they can make people. Happiness is a theme because everyone in Montag’s community is looking for happiness, because the people who read books are happy, even though books have been outlawed, and because Montag changes his whole life when he began to question his happiness.

In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley includes allusion, ethos, and pathos to mock the wrongdoings of the people which causes physical and mental destruction in the society as a whole. The things that happened in the 1930’s plays a big contribution to the things that go on in the novel. The real world can never be looked at as a perfect place because that isn't possible. In this novel, Huxley informs us on how real life situations look in his eyes in a nonfictional world filled with immoral humans with infantile minds and a sexual based religion.

Having been a somewhat of an outsider in his life, physically and mentally, Aldous Huxley used what others thought as his oddities to create complex works. His large stature and creative individuality is expressed in the characters of his novel, Brave New World. In crafting such characters as Lenina, John, Linda, Bernard, and Helmholtz, not to mention the entire world he created in the text itself, Huxley incorporated some of his humanities into those of his characters. Contrastly, he removed the same humanities from the society as a whole to seem perfect. This, the essence and value of being human, is the great meaning of Brave New World. The presence and lack of human nature in the novel exemplifies the words of literary theorist Edward Said: “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Huxley’s characters reflect the “rift” in their jarred reaction to new environments and lifestyles, as well as the remnant of individuality various characters maintain in a brave new world.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the character Mildred to convey how many people in society are discontent, even though they may seem happy. Throughout the novel Bradbury creates many characters that seem satisfied with their life of work and electronics, but Mildred in particular suggests that even one radiating happiness can still be broken and depressed inside.

happiness isn't truly real and actual there,it's a imaginary because it's not truly happiness. It's created by the consumption of something. The nature happiness a person experience through the actual joy and happiness. The idea of happiness is tied into the idea of truth over happiness. The being trained and controlled to be exactly the same and without the realization, it's slowly ruling their lives. They use soma to control the needs of people,because many are already addicted and it only helps the society stay constant and less chaos. Today in the world we are controlled by technology and artificial needs. We aren't realizing slowly it's beginning to take over.

“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.

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” –Abraham Lincoln.

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses diction and specific details in order to convey a

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

The Brave New World portrays the perfect society, where citizens of “Utopia” live a life without depression, and any socioeconomic problems. In the New World, every portion of life is controlled. Only when a person is able to dig deeper inside of himself will he find that this world is nothing close to perfect. Drugs, sex, and mind games control this world and solve any problems that may arise, such as overpopulation, and caste tension. The usage of such tactics causes a loss of individuality.

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.

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.