Happiness In Brave New World Persuasive Essay

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The book Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is a ironic and satirical dystopia. It is “partly a statement of ideas (expressed by characters with no more depth than cartoon characters) and only partly a story with a plot.” ("Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : Barron's Notes." Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : Barron's Notes. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.) Huxley would agree wit Aristotle, a famous philosopher, who claimed that the end of an was happiness. Huxley would define happiness as the manipulation of environment and the human mind itself. I would define happiness as the ability to pursue and enjoy individual desires. Happiness and pleasure can be seen as the same thing, but they are in fact different.
Pleasure is to focus and indulge in comfort or luxuries. Happiness is to do something internally-derived which is meaningful and enduring. …show more content…
They are conditioned to fit society’s needs and to like the work they have to do. The government brainwashes their citizens.This is ironic because even if we don’t like our jobs we still have to find something within it that we enjoy. The government gives their citizens Soma, a drug that “if ever by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always Soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always Soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering… that’s what Soma is.” (Conversation between Mustapha and John in chapter 17.) The way this society is built and the amount of Soma they can relate to Charles Manson, and how he got all those girls to do horrific things while on drugs. A way people have fun in Brave New World is by taking Soma and having “Orgy-Porgy, ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them one. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-Porgy gives release.” (Chapter
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