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A Brave New World Quote Analysis

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The Price of Perfection
Happiness is a cheap luxury. In today's society, it is foolish how such a cheap emotion is viewed as expensive by those blind to its cost. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, real freedom is sold for fake happiness through the suppression of one’s emotional, cognitive, and expressive rights. As a result, they cease to be human, affirming that those who suppress inborn human rights are not free.
The suppression of emotional rights such as romantic relations, emotional responses, and the body's need to feel, all restrict self-control, a human right, and thus eliminate individual freedom. For instance, the world state suppresses emotions by prohibiting romantic relations, as they lead to monogamy and therefore destruct …show more content…

The loyalty and compassion that comes with monogamous relations are integral in being human, as such dehumanization limits one's self-control causing all to become subject to each other desires, and thus, chained slaves to their emotions; hence, without compassionate emotions like romantic affection, people become robotic slaves to their basest of desires, and thus incapable of claiming their own freedom. Here on, civilians are suppressed of emotional rights by being denied the freedom to certain emotional responses, due to their impaired spectrum of emotions. Bernard seeks the right to be unhappy when he asks Lenina if she can imagine independent freedom, "to be …show more content…

Primarily, one’s identity is suppressed through the active encouragement of community and confinement where isolation and deeper spirituality is repressed to prevent influence that may challenge world state views, ultimately limiting one’s individuality through their deprived range of beliefs. Bernard is able to hypocritically question society only when he is at distance from it (74) similarly, solitude separates John from his community and aids him in developing deeper spiritual relations, (119) hence solitude is criminalized as spirituality is easily reached in full solitude and spirituality being a dynamic construct, has the ability to diversify a society, threatening societal stability and promoting one's right to a unique identity. To conclude, the morality that comes with spiritual relations does not promise permanent happiness and instead diversifies society, allowing one's inborn individuality to shine. Thus, through the criminalization of solitude, one's beliefs are suppressed, individuality is eradicated, and a person's freedom of identity is stolen, making them too standard to be human. In addition, individuals’ identities are suppressed through

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