Theme Of Happiness In Brave New World

What is a perfect world? This is a question that Aldous Huxley attempts to answer in his 1932 novel, Brave New World. Within the novel, Huxley paints a futuristic dystopian world in which people are mechanically produced and controlled through the use of drugs and psychological conditioning. Throughout the novel, Huxley often touches on topics related to morality and free will and the nature of happiness. Using these topics, Huxley explains how happiness comes at a cost of other emotions such as anger or sadness, in addition to the fact that without free will there cannot be morality. He does this by using John the Savage as his messenger, using John’s doctrines to oppose the beliefs of the World State that lead to a lack of free will in addition to the loss of morality. Through Brave New World, Huxley shows his readers what it means to

In Brave New World, happiness is a topic that is brought up often, this being evident through the constant appearance of soma within the novel. With these constant mentions of happiness, Huxley is trying to tell us what it means to be truly happy. Within the novel, happiness is an artificial emotion created by soma in conjunction with hypnopaedic conditioning. We can see that in the society of Brave New World, happiness, in its traditional sense, has become obsolete; this is evident when Lenina Crowne is in a helicopter with Henry Foster above London and she says that “everybody’s happy now,” (65). This quote shows that within the novel, happiness has become a term that is thrown around casually, just like the drug that is used to induce it. By doing this, Huxley is trying to tell us the difference between artificial happiness and true happiness, what we see in Brave New World being artificial happiness. True happiness requires sacrifice, risk and sadness. As John says, when speaking with Mustapha Mond in his office: “I don 't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want