Happiness In Brave New World

One of the main themes in Brave New word is happiness vs. truth, the government is in control, the citizens have lost their freedom, but have been given pleasure by the drug Soma to fake happiness. Are the people of this population actually happy, is everybody living truth, or is everybody living a lie with fake happiness. In this book the government is in control of almost everything. The government has taken it into their hands to bring new people in this world because they can increase the population quicker and more proficiently. “One egg, one embryo, one adult, A bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a

This meaning that they can make new people do what the others wouldn't do and couldn't do. Being that the government and the DHS can make sure all of the new people they create can fit their strict standards, of being able to do multiple jobs “Chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, chlorine” (Page 12). Showing that the government trains these people to be tolerant to these hazardous materials so they can do things that a regular person wouldn’t and couldn’t do. But also bad because they are humans that are oblivious to everything going on around them, being that how they live isn't really the truth like they thought it

The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror.” (Page 15) This was done because the government, and the DHS couldn’t risk anybody to know the truth of everything around them. The government, and the DHS wanted to keep all of its people in the dark. By learning to be afraid of books and flowers at a young age, this would hopefully keep the people away from them for their entire lives, so that they will never question everything around them. This being the government, and the DHS ultimate goal. The citizens of this world have lost every bit of their freedom to the government, one of the big things is losing their joy of reading early on they are taught books and flowers are bad, and that they should be afraid of these and stay away from them at all cost. “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Page 15) Also losing more control to the government the people wouldnt be able to play many games,