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Brave New World: A Society of False Happiness

2023-08-17 15:25:12

From the moment of birth to the moment of death, humans are full of good or evil. Individuals are always looking for satisfaction, something can not be found, others are successful. Many people seek worship; love, achievement and greatness. In literary works, the author leads the reader to a journey that allows imagination, allowing the reader to grab the inner desires and decide what is really important in life. Literature makes it possible for readers to sneak into another world, also called utopia, where happiness and satisfaction are rich and eternal.

In Hu's brave new world, there is a lie, false happiness. We (the reader) know that, and a part of the hero in the book (John's so-called "barbarians", Bernard Marx, Helmholtz-Watson etc.) knows this. It has never been clearly identified, false happiness is just a hint. Huxley may not do this to create a drama, but beyond the hint is too complex for the text.

In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley paints a wonderful picture of a horrible, quite happy Utopia society. Everyone is not angry, but we immediately notice the fear of anyone being too stupid (all chemical substances in the test tube, all born), or numbness of numbness (body). How awful it is, at least everyone has a good time. We must deeply understand that happiness (always fleeting) can not resist the tragedies of life and the evil we have to face. Instead, we should be useful, we should accept the fact that we are monsters and we fully utilize our abilities - this will satisfy us. Even if we are afraid to break the rules, we will not get better. We believe that most of morality is simply obedience and the reality of being a coward obedient is that you can easily transform from it into a malicious agent.

The "brave new world" society is happy in most cases, but are they being operated to this so-called happiness? Soma is an obvious example as it chemically provides people with cosmetic pleasure. Because it is drug delivery, is not this incorrect happiness? You can see that the "brave new world" society can not achieve perfect happiness because they do not even know what it is. In addition, happiness can not be separated from sorrow and pain, and people with a state can not relate to it. "Brave new world" makes happiness worse