Happiness In Brave New World

Peter Mashni

In Brave New World, happiness of the people is the goal. Therefore suffering, competition, different views, and religion to name a few must be removed from the society. The process starts with all the people being cloned in a manufacturing plant and designed to look the same. The concept is similar to Henry Ford’s auto assembly line where all cars were exactly the same and colored black. Such an assembly line produced efficiencies and removed any decision making by the consumer. If you wanted a Ford, there is nothing to think about, no need to stress over it or try to buy a better car than your neighbors. It was all the same. In this cloned genetically engineered society suffering, competition, stress would be removed because

It's not really a utopian wonderdrug at all. Soma does make you high, but it's more similar to a hangover, and you become calm. In the being of the book, Soma is a very straightforward and effective drug and works well for this cloned society. Taking Soma doesn't give Bernard Marx, the disaffected sleep-learning specialist, more than a cheap thrill. Nor does it make him happy with his station in life. The drug is said to be better than (promiscuous) sex. This is because he sees all these things as short term happiness and he beings to question why do we have to do this and why is all this short-term why can’t we get long term happiness. As the book goes on Bernard being to realize that is suffering that is missing in this society and he sees all these things are filling in for happiness, he immediately wants to change that. This is the only sex brave new world society practice. But a regimen of Soma doesn't deliver anything exciting or life benefiting. It doesn't cause any mystical powers or intellectual greatness or promote personal ambitions. Instead, Soma provides a numb mindless sense of happiness, a sense of escape making them comfortable with their lack of freedom. The drug increases the acceptance of suggestions leaving its users vulnerable to government propaganda. Soma is a really an addictive narcotic that its users crave leaving them in a false reality. Huxley

The many different types of religion and how each person interpreted and practiced their religion was a root cause of wars and worldly problems. Huxley knew that if society was to have peace, there could only be one religion for all. This would satisfy the people's need to believe in a higher power and also significantly reduce war and suffering. Unfortunately, in the book, Brave New World Huxley presents pain because he knows it human nature to want good and that can not happen with the bad. How would you know what good is if there was no suffering. Huxley takes out religion and shows the reader the religion does not create all the suffering it is the people that create suffering. The main reason Huxley avoids types of religion is because he wants to show that religion is not the cause of suffering rather suffering is a part of human nature, and if you're a human being there will always be a hole in the solution. Religion in a society is not all about suffering happiness comes out of suffering as well, and this is why Huxley still puts in religion because the people have to understand how to be happy in order to know what suffering really is. Huxley avoids all these negative things in religion in his society to make the people always happy avoiding conflict. He takes out form of religion, to force the people to only believe in one religion and not have them struggle