Happiness In Brave New World

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True happiness and artificial happiness are two similar, but very distinct emotions. The society in which one lives and the surroundings distinguish between the two. Happiness is a pleasurable satisfaction which results from the possession or attainment of what one considers good, while artificial happiness can be defined as a state of happiness because it is the effect of relying on a substance to make one happy, therefore making it artificial since it does not come naturally. Happiness is something gained by experiences and general living of life. Aldous Huxley brings up a good point on whether truth is more important than happiness.
First, Mustapha mond, a character in brave new world who is a key person in explaining his opinions on the emotion of happiness. An interesting thing is where Mustapha isn't saying anything. In particular, chapter twelve when we move to Mustapha is reading a biology paper about purpose and deciding that it can't be published. We see that he admires the paper. The most we see in the way of internal dissent is a sigh and the thought that life would be so much more fun if one didn't have to think about happiness. “The theory of population is resolvable into three propositions ... …show more content…

Such as John and Lenina and when he proposed his love to her (Huxley). Lenina cannot be truly pleased with only John because the society in which she is raised requires her to be promiscuous and her happiness will not extend to love because she does not understand John’s views on love. Therefore, Lenina is not able to experience contentment and yet again, experiences artificial happiness. There are feelies which create a sexual manipulation by using touch, audio, and sound in order to cause sexual arousement and pleasure. Yet again another form in which the World State creates happiness by disregarding the

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