A Brave New World Quote Analysis

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, he creates an idea of a picture-perfect utopian society that reaches happiness by changing the mindset of its citizens to believe they are happy. In a society depicting such a strange ideology of people are no longer happy as they make their minds up to be, but as happy as the government allow them to be. In Brave New World, it is implied further, that if we are to find true fulfillment and meaning in our own lives, we must be able to contrast the good parts of life with the bad parts to feel both joy and despair. Consumerism plays an enormous part in Brave New World because it not only makes citizens more contented, but it also makes them easier to control. The world state keeps the citizens in need of

One of the important quotes stated,” Murder kills only the individual and, after all what is an individual? “We can make a new one with the greatest ease-as many as we like” (133). When first reading the book, you question yourself about the concept of consumption. If you gave someone the choice between getting what they wanted and not getting what they wanted, they'd choose getting what they wanted every time. This satisfaction of desire, the person would believe, would make them happy. To maintain its stability, the World State in Brave New World ensures that all its citizens get exactly what they want all the time. Citizens are always informed of their status as dependent and the state make it clear that, “No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy-to preserve you, as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all” (44). Through the repeated use of soma, the sense of the individual is even further lost to consumption. The mentality behind their status is by keeping their citizens as well equipped with materialistic pleasurable things, the pattern of consumption will continue, and the economy will continue will thrive which is the key to

This is how they condition children to be afraid of less productive goods, such as books and flowers. Nature, religion and the sense of self have been abolished by the World State, leaving only Consumerism. In Brave New World, the government keeps its peoples busy with a continuation of material goods. Continuous spending keeps people busy, so they do not have time to ponder about the workings of the World State. “We condition the masses to hate the country, but simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus. So that they consume manufactured articles as well as transport. Hence those electric shocks” (23). Huxley shows how children are trained to like country sports so that they consume transport. However, they are trained to hate nature so that they only participate in watching and playing elaborate games while in the country, instead of only enjoying the scenery and not consuming. The citizens of this world are very much like young children who are incapable of operating without their gods of consumption and provision. This is evidenced by Linda who, after being left with Indians was completely useless because she was as helpless as a baby and could not think or act for