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Happiness

Soma affects the ability of individuals to think for themselves and understand the truth

Soma provides happiness, despite the harsh reality the individuals live in

Individuals are not aware of reality due to the use of soma

World state believes that happiness is over truth in order for social stability

State doesn’t want to reveal the truth in order to prevent people from seeing what happens

The World State believes that happiness is more important than the truth according to Mustapha Mond (people are better off with happiness than truth)

Happiness comes from consumption of materialistic items (consumerism)

World State conditions and controls citizens in order to believe what is said in hypnopaedia

The World State does not want the citizens to be aware of science (science is dangerous according to Mustapha Mond

The state hides two truths from the citizens

1. Emotional Truth

2. Scientific Truth

According to them, happiness = to our desires and wants(pleasure aspect)

It violates the human right and human freedom

Create happiness by destroying the past

Create happiness by eliminating real relationships

Happiness is not an actual emotion

Truth

It does not exist

Only certain individuals search for the truth, which the society of Brave New World does not accept

Alter the truth

Conflict

False sense of reality is the primary conflict as character avoid facing the truth about situation by taking soma

Although the world state hides the truth, some characters are aware such as Bernard, which makes them feel depressed

True happiness does not exist because the reality is replaced with hallucinations. Once the Hallucinations are over, they come back into reality and they cannot face it so again they go back into this false sense of happiness.

“Drying her eyes, Lenina walked across the roof to the lift….One gramme, she decided, would not be enough; hers had been more than a one-gramme affliction.11.171)

Suffering because john rejected her. When she takes soma she forgets about her true feelings, she wants to get away from her feelings. But as soon as she comes out of those hallucinations, she wants to go back.

They have lost humanity.

Quotations

“That is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny” (Huxley 15 (75)). Since all citizens are conditioned to like what they’re doing, they do not experience true happiness. The director says that the secret of happiness is liking what you do, but that is not true happiness.

"you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma." Soma is used to give a false sense of happiness. Soma puts them in a false reality away from the truth and reality.

“I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here” (Huxley 134 (194)). John says that soma interferes one’s true emotions. He says that he’d rather be unhappy than lying or false happiness.

“It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; It’s also science, Science is dangerous; we have to keep it; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley 231). Mustapha says that the truth regarding science and other information is hidden in order to make individuals feel happy. Thus, science is “chained and muzzled.” Moreover, the notion that art is incompatible with happiness shows that...

“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness” (Huxley 233). The reason why the past is deemed useless is because Ford tries to shift the focus from truth to happiness.

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t” (Huxley 233). There is a belief that happiness is more important than truth and beauty. Happiness is significant to social stability as all individuals would be productive and play a role in society.

“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people’s happiness. A much harder master, if one isn’t conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth” (Huxley 233). Individuals must be conditioned to feel happy at all times, but if they are not, they will know the truth.

“But truth’s a menace, science is a public danger” (Huxley 233). The truth is considered a menace because it eliminates happiness and causes a possible chance of revolution.

Real Life Example

When something tragic happens, but you alter the truth in order to make a loved one feel happy (altering the truth)

Alter the truth to make it more appealing

Last week, a controversy was shown when NASA cut off a live feed of a possible UFO sighting. People thought that they were hiding truth of something unusual and this cause a riot in places to make NASA tell the truth. This can be related to Brave New World because the science section of the society where hiding the truth from the people of what new technologies they were creating and using.

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The Use of Technology to Control Society

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The Use of Technology to Control Society

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One illustration of this theme is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. But even beyond control of birth and education through technology, this abuse of technology can be seen throughout their adult lives. The society of Brave New World are conditioned to want bigger better things thus leading to the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State's stability

What is most interesting about how Huxley portrays technological advancements is that while technology has been allowed to grow and flourish, actual scientific advancement has been stunted. Whereas the State talks about progress and science, what it really means is the bettering of technology, not increased scientific exploration and experimentation. The state uses science as a means to build technology that can create a flawless, contented, superficial world through things such as the "feelies." The state censors and limits science, just as it does with all higher learning, since the fundamental basis behind science is the seek out truth, which threatens the State's control.

“And that ... is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.”

“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State.”(362)

“‘Free, free!’ the Savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area while, with the other, he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants. ‘Free!’ And suddenly there was Helmholtz at his side–’Good old Helmholtz!’—also punching—’Men at last!’—and in the interval also throwing the poison out by handfuls through the open window. ‘Yes, men! men!’ and there was no more poison left. He picked up the cash-box and showed them its black emptiness. ‘You're free!’ Howling, the Deltas charged with a redoubled fury.”(213

“The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get... And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.”(220)

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In Brave New World, the role of science plays a crucial part in maintaining stability in World State.

Ø  This shown from the daily use of Bokanovsky’s process

“One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanvskified eg 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 full-sized adult” (Huxley 6).

The Bokanovsky’s process allows a society to manufacture humans quickly and efficiently. However, it impairs epsilons from thinking and their height, making them perceived as the lower class.

Ø  Well science is essential for the growth of society, it is important to note that science is dangerous and must be kept under control or else a society can crumble.

Mustapha Mond states “ Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley 225)

In this quote Mustapha Mond is talking to John the Savage and he is telling him that if science is not valuable, if it diminishes control and happiness. Mond specifically uses the word “muzzled”, to stress the idea of why humans should prevent science from further development.

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“We condition them to hate the country’, concluded the Director. ‘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” (Huxley 23).

In Brave New World, individuals are conditioned to like and dislike specific things. For ex: Babies were taught to hate flowers hence they don’t like nature but they do like to play the sports and in order to play these sports they must travel to different location. To travel to these locations they must use transportation. Those utilizing this transportation help the economy but what’s unfortunate is that they have no choice of their own activities. Everyone likes the same enjoyment purposes which causes them to lose individuality.

“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).

Basically, it does not affect the society if any individual dies because they can make new ones so easily. Mr.Foster makes it evident that he treats life like a product. Essentially, it is easy to make a new product just like they make individuals in test tubes. Also, when an individual dies, no one mourns over their death. This analogy shows how people in Brave New World are basically referred to as inhuman creatures.

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1. Change may lead to chaos
-"Whore!...Damned whore!" ( Huxley 194)
-"howling the delta's charged with a redoubled fury" (Huxley 213)
Since emotions and feelings are suppressed in this conditioned society, it can lead to characters committing harmful actions whether they are outside or inside the powerful state. One example would be when John, an outsider, get upset when Lenina wants to sleep with him, resulting in his anger and violent actions towards her because he is obvious of the promiscuous actions within the state. Another example is the Delta's violent acts towards John when he takes the soma away. The delta's don't know how to control their emotions without soma.

2. Totalitarianism can lead to citizens committing unethical actions due to lack of information
- "it was the sort of idea that may decondition the more unsettled minds...make them loose their faith in happiness" (Huxley 177)
If the government tells them to do something, they have no sense of thought to deny as they have been prohibited from any real source of information.

3. Loss of humanity
- "bakanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability" (Huxley 6)
This process is inhuman and unnatural of creating children