Brave New World

Jared Abbott

Possibly

In the book Brave New World there is no God. There’s no religion, art, no music, no spiritual pilgrimages. “God is incompatible with machines,” we’re told. Eliminate suffering, and you don’t need God to give you comfort. In Brave New World, all of these things are sacrificed for happiness.

The protagonist in Brave New World likes a girl named Lenina but upon speaking to her, he finds that she is as shallow and empty headed as the next person. This is because the protagonist is one of the few people who has an individual Personality. Having these unique thoughts is one of the few things that separates human beings from machines. but that’s just the way Brave new world works. one big machine with everybody playing their part.

Aldous Huxley implies that by abolishing mental pain, people in brave new world have gotten rid of the most profound and sublime experiences in life. Instead of having the heavy burden of critical thinking and making choices, citizens choose the easy way out by taking government issued drugs like Soma that create a false sense of happiness.

Logically, Brave New World is far better than our own but, there is no real emotion. All thoughts and conversations and books are superficial. Other books on dystopian societies think that, to make it’s people thoughtless robots it would ban books. Aldous Huxley believed that there would never be an need to ban books. People just wouldn’t care enough to read them.