Theme Of Happiness In Fahrenheit 451

Saying someone is happy isn’t the same as being happy. In Fahrenheit 451, the citizens in society believe in the idea of being happy, being content, and not thinking about what’s going on around them. The mere thought of always staying busy and consuming their lives with television is what they live by. In Brave New World, citizens also presume the idea of happiness and the concept of conditioning to know their true value in life. Happiness comes in the form of a pill, where society takes it to get rid of unwanted thoughts, to be free and careless. The governments in Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World both control their citizens as a way to manipulate their behaviors and actions. With happiness, also comes the notion of love. Both societies

They are so accustomed to living in a controlled world, that they don’t realize their true identities are gone. In Brave New World, their society’s illusion and distractions of happiness comes from a pill known as soma. “Soma provides a mindless, inauthentic "imbecile happiness" - a vacuous escapism which makes people comfortable with their lack of freedom” (Pearce). All of the citizens in the new world take soma, a pleasure drug, to help them forget and get away from unhappy thoughts rather than doing something about their discomforts. They also take soma before they sleep with one another to enhance the pleasure and let them do the deed without much thought. One example is when Lenina told Bernard to just take soma so he doesn’t have to think about what he’s doing so they can have sex (Huxley 92). They use this drug as an escape from reality so they don’t have to think, to let them get high and be

In Fahrenheit 451, love and family is not something everyone in society does. Their world derives from watching television and listening to the radio and the shell so that they don’t think about anything else. Seeing their children three times a month and not being committed into their marriages shows how selfish society really is and they only care about what the government wants them too. In Brave New World, their world submerges themselves in drugs and sex as a way to distract them in a way to promote happiness. Relationships don’t even exist and family is forbidden to all. Their saying everyone is for everyone has taking its toll on society and shows how government power has manipulated the citizens to believe in that way. Government control in both societies has exceeded its authority to promote happiness that their citizens are actually unhappy. The worlds in both novels are giving a fake reality to stop citizens from seeing the actual truth, all in which lead them to be emotionless and heartless. The two best emotions both books are supposed to represent in their own way actually downplay it by insufficient