Brave New World
As man has progressed over time there has been one thing strived for more than
anything else. That has been to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy,
disease is nonexistent, and conflict, anger, or sadness are unheard of. In a utopian
society only happiness exists. While reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, I came
to realize that this is not what humans really want. In fact, utopian societies are much
worse of than the societies of today. In his utopian society the individual is lost in the
melting pot of similarity.
In the utopian society that Huxley presents, everyone is happy, but there
are no differences between the people. Everyone is brought up to be happy, and most
do not even know what sadness or anger is. All emotion is cured artificially through
surrogates or drugs. Even happiness alone is not unique to the individual. Soma, the
hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is used......
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