Happiness is one of the most satisfying things a person can have if they want to be sane or even remotely content with life. The definition of happiness is “the state of being happy”, or “pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, etc.” (Google, 2015) All of these feelings are very rewarding for a person to live with on a daily basis, without it I don’t think many people would make it too far in life. You hear stories on the news of someone who tries to commit suicide or of a person who took someone else’s life and wonder what went wrong or where did life go wrong for them. They obviously lost their happiness, or found themselves in a depressing state which drove them to madness. We may forget that our own individual happiness is important, but with …show more content…
There is no room for individuality, the society just cannot function in that way. “You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art.” (Huxley, 150) As a whole, we become accustomed to being able to be different, having our own identity, and some may say that we take advantage of the freedoms we have. Before reading the book I felt that it was the norm to distinguish yourself as a person, not knowing that these freedoms we have are what gives you a life of fulfillment. These people in Huxley’s perfect utopia do not know any different, they have no freedoms to have individuality, so how do they even know they can be happy if they cannot be different? They are also not thought of as important, they are all thought of to be the same which makes me wonder how they know what true happiness could even feel like. The society is refused any right or opportunity to plan out their own lives or to have a role in society other than what was created specifically for them. I see this as an issue in human growth as it does not leave much room for a person to learn who they truly are. I think that in order for you to mature, or grow as a person, you need to have life experiences that teach you right or wrong and even the ability to find out who or what you want to be. In my mind, this plan in Brave New World is overly thought out and will suffer eventually because nothing can ever stay perfect. I also wonder how one could think that a plan to control a society like this could not eventually have some flaws. I always hear stories of people who are just naturally different and somehow break out of the shell they were in. What if one of these people were not controllable and caused them to turn on his or her own people. This could cause mayhem in a world full of people who do not
The Deltas got extremely mad at John when he threw away the soma tablets. This happened when John decided to, “open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area” (187). The Deltas became incredibly angry because they thought that soma is what brings them happiness. This explains that they are not truly free to experience emotions without the help of soma. Also, as said before, Helmholtz’s poem expressed solitude and writing it brought him joy but he got in trouble for sharing it with others.
A person’s happiness can have an impact on others. People can get agitated because a group or individual is at peace or sons and daughter can be happy as a result of witnessing their parents being content. Delightment is capable of encouraging expansion of one’s knowledge. For instance, if one realizes their potential in achieving greatness in a certain subject, the satisfaction could lead to desiring to draw in more knowledge, knowing the greatness that individual can achieve. Someone who is depressed doesn’t have the motivation to achieve something positive. There are people that misinterpret or have a negative pleasure and peace of mind. That’s the incredible potential happiness
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.
In his novel, “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley portrays a society in which the government has full control. At the time of the books writing America was striving for this status quo of complacent pleasantry, censorship was an issue, and things that were extreme or painful were being removed. As man has progressed through the years, societies have tried to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But after reading Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World,” one comes to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human being really longs for. Huxley’s intended audience seems to be people that have the vision of a perfect society. He wrote the book as a dark satire. It's meant to mock (in a serious manner) the concept of a perfect society being possible. Huxley successfully made the point that there is more to life than stability and complacent happiness by utilizing a number of rhetorical strategies.
Happiness is a key to everybodys life. Even the most depressed man on earth has a little happiness deep down inside. Its what keeps us striving to fulfil our needs and wants on an everyday basis. There is not one kid who does not get excited over a dollar to spend at the candy shop. What about the feeling of getting a promotion at your job, or even finding the cure for cancer. Being happy is not just healthy, but it is also rewarding for each and every individual. We strive to find anything that will turn a bad day to a good one. Individuals will compromise to attain their happiness. You can not get what you want without giving something first.
According to the Dictionary, “happiness is the mental or emotional state of well being which can be defined by others. A pleasurable or satisfying experience.”. Of course that’s true, the feeling of happiness is what it’s scientifically defined as, but happiness is much more than that. Happiness could be a certain sound, a smell, even feeling a certain piece of clothing or a thick warm blanket. People spend hours even years trying to work for what they think is happiness. They work for hours to get large amounts of money, but they never find the happiness their looking for. That’s because happiness isn't materialistic, happiness isn't something you can buy with expensive items. Even though some people believe you can buy happiness, that’s
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
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
The Huxley introduces Best New World it might throw people off but if you continue reading you might come to find that it is an interesting novel. The Best New World is quite freaky in my opinion because wanting to have everyone exactly the same kind of eliminates the curiosity of a person and how unique someone is. In the Best New World people are categorized as Alphas, Deltas, Betas, Gammas and Epsilons now the way they compare to our world is that we are individually one of these but we weren't born into it we just sort of become who ever we become, although some of us are greater at things than others we don't let that stop us we continue to grow and develop our skills unlike the people in the novel. Another juxtaposition is when they
As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs
What is Happiness? Well, In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (great book by the way), the people that lived in this dystopian world, called World State, had a motto/goal that they believed that it provided them happiness; “Community, Identity, and Stability.” Which basically meant that you have no individuality, so that your community has stability. In addition to that, all they did was have sex and drugs which made them oblivious to how their “perfect” society is not so perfect. They also scientifically altered how humans reproduced, so instead of being born from the womb, people were being “born” from tubes, and in those tubes, they prepare you for the job or role you will be forced to do for the rest of your life. The best part? They use
In Brave New World, the community is given priority above the individual; and although this priority may seem like a sort of devotion, the way in which Huxley illustrates it strips a person of any form of individuality. William Matter sees that in Huxley’s Brave New World, “individuality must be repressed because it invites a malleable social structure” (Matter 95). This elimination of individuality causes no depth of feeling, no creativity and no intellectual excitement. What makes a person an individual is to have a sense of himself as being separate, distinct, and unique. This sense of self includes both the joys and sorrows of one’s life.
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
In Brave New World the reader can see that most of the World State members are happy even though some of the main characters like Bernard, Helmholtz, and John are unhappy. To the reader this might raise the question as to why that is. To me that answer can be found in the last couple of chapters when Mustapha and John have that one-on-one conversation in Mustapha’s office. The reader learns that Mustapha was a lot like Bernard, John, and Helmholtz in the sense that he was curious. In their society if someone is curious it is not a good thing because when they get curious they start to explore and start to reject all the conditioning they went through from the time they were made, to the time they were able to start work. So Mustapha admits to John that he was curious about science and wasn’t happy with the way society had dumbed it down and hidden away “real” science. He even admitted that he was about to be moved to an island when an offer was made to him. This offer was for him to either move to an island where he could continue his science experiments or give up science and eventually become a World Controller.
In the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley creates a utopia world, where people live in a society with the motto of community, identity, and stability. In this novel, human are created in test-tubes. Taking soma to fix human problems and having multiple sexual relationship with different partners are considered as progress of civilization. From my opinion, throughout this novel, there are various contradictions among the characters. Huxley creates many characters who stuggle from their own values and the World States ' values.