Brave New Word Literary Analysis
One of the main themes in Brave New word is happiness vs. truth, the government is in control, the citizens have lost their freedom, but have been given pleasure by the drug to fake happiness. Are the people really happy or is their whole life a lie. In this book the government is in control of almost everything. The government has taken control of bringing new people into the world, so that they fit their strict standards, and to produce more at a time. “One egg, one embryo, one adult, A bokanovskified egg 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. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before.”
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“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Page 15)
I believe that this isn't right but the DHS and the government can't take any chances of letting their special population find out about the outside world. Almost all of the citizens have been drugged or faked into happiness. One of the examples is that the government used soma which is a drug with no side-effects that would cause bliss, oblivion, pure love, and pure utopia. This drug was used for controlling the population, and distracts all the people from what is happening which is very wrong that all the people are oblivious that they are enslaved by their own government.
In the end happiness vs. truth is all make believe, everything everybody believes that is truth is actually not the truth, and everything everybody believed was happiness is not true
“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Page 15)
I believe that this isn't right but the DHS and the government can't take any chances of letting their special population find out about the outside world. Almost all of the citizens have been drugged or faked into happiness. One of the examples is that the government used soma which is a drug with no side-effects that would cause bliss, oblivion, pure love, and pure utopia. This drug was used for controlling the population, and distracts all the people from what is happening which is very wrong that all the people are oblivious that they are enslaved by their own government.
In the end happiness vs. truth is all make believe, everything everybody believes that is truth is actually not the truth, and everything everybody believed was happiness is not true