Within his book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley paints a futuristic dystopian world in which people are controlled by drugs and conditioning. Throughout the novel, Huxley attempts to convey messages related to morality, free will and the nature of happiness. These messages are often satirical in nature such as Huxley’s fictional drug “Soma”, a drug that induces ‘happiness’ within its users, this being a clear reference to Prozac, a drug prescribed to relieve depression. In addition to being satirical, Huxley also tries to be prophetic with his world of mechanically produced humans controlled by drugs and the consumption of goods. Through Brave New World, Huxley attempts to show the true meaning of happiness, the dangers of technology and the
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With these constant mentions of happiness, Huxley is trying to show us the true nature of happiness. 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 “everybody’s happy now.” This quote shows how happiness has become a term that is thrown around casually, just like the drug that induces 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 is considered to be artificial happiness. True happiness requires sacrifice, risk and sadness. As John Savage says, …show more content…
In fact, the entire world of the novel relies on technology, with an example being the Bokanovsky Process, the process that provides the entire world with a population of varying levels of intelligence. Through this, Huxley is trying to warn us about the dangers of technology towards society. He is warning us that technology has the power to strip us of our free will. When Mond is speaking to John in his office he explains that everyone “goes through life in a bottle.” In this quote the bottle represents the restrictions that technology impose on us, therefore, Huxley is trying to say that everyone, no matter your status or intelligence, is in some way being controlled by technology. The most significant message that Huxley is conveying, is the dangers of cloning. In Brave New World nearly the entire population consists of clones created through the Bokanovsky Process. All of these clones are created and controlled by the 10 World Controllers. With this, Huxley shows the amount of power that cloning can bestow to a person or a group of people, thereby showcasing the amount of power that technology can bestow to a person or a group of people. While technology plays a large role in the novel, another topic that plays a big part in the story is
With these constant mentions of happiness, Huxley is trying to show us the true nature of happiness. 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 “everybody’s happy now.” This quote shows how happiness has become a term that is thrown around casually, just like the drug that induces 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 is considered to be artificial happiness. True happiness requires sacrifice, risk and sadness. As John Savage says, …show more content…
In fact, the entire world of the novel relies on technology, with an example being the Bokanovsky Process, the process that provides the entire world with a population of varying levels of intelligence. Through this, Huxley is trying to warn us about the dangers of technology towards society. He is warning us that technology has the power to strip us of our free will. When Mond is speaking to John in his office he explains that everyone “goes through life in a bottle.” In this quote the bottle represents the restrictions that technology impose on us, therefore, Huxley is trying to say that everyone, no matter your status or intelligence, is in some way being controlled by technology. The most significant message that Huxley is conveying, is the dangers of cloning. In Brave New World nearly the entire population consists of clones created through the Bokanovsky Process. All of these clones are created and controlled by the 10 World Controllers. With this, Huxley shows the amount of power that cloning can bestow to a person or a group of people, thereby showcasing the amount of power that technology can bestow to a person or a group of people. While technology plays a large role in the novel, another topic that plays a big part in the story is