HappinessHappiness, in the Brave New World, comes from taking grammes of soma tablets, having people, and doing the job that they were born to do. "Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter? Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous. These may think it a great thing to have everything, as they suppose, their own way-to depend on no one-to have to think of nothing out of sight, to be without the irksomeness of continual acknowledgement, continual prayer, continual reference of what they do to the will of another" (Mond 209).
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Religion vs. Ritual |
Unlike the Savage Reservation, and society today, the Brave New World doesn't follow religions or beliefs systems of any kind. Mustapha Mond, the main controller of the new world society, believes that God and all the traditions are old, and therefore should be banned from public eyes. He believes that they should create their own happiness, and not have it weighed down by devoting their lives to something that doesn't necessarily exist. Our society uses rituals such as going to church, praying, worshiping or volunteering their lives for their religion, instead of seeking happiness their own way. Although Mond has good points, without the hard work and dedication of working towards something, the Brave New World people don't have any sense of perseverance or determination.
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Because of the obsession with consumerism, people are getting distracted by what's actually important. Both the Brave New World Society, and today's society, are having struggles of finding what can really make them happy, and what they should be focusing on in their life. Humans are making their sole purposes in life, materialistic objects and pleasures, instead of finding their true value in life.
Gilbert, Dan. "The Surprising Science of Happiness." Dan Gilbert:. TED, Feb. 2004. Web. 27 May 2016. (Movie)
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper & Bros., 1946. Print.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper & Bros., 1946. Print.