Brave New World- Journal #3

TOPIC C

This novel is speaking about happiness, and at what cost that happiness is worth. It appears idyllic, before the person can even speak to be made to love every heinous thing any individual will have to do. What could ever be wrong with being happy constantly, basically being forced to be happy. This novel warns the world of striving for accepted happiness everywhere, for the goal to never feel sad or angry. Through the novel, Huxley says that it is a humans right to feel poorly. Not just their right, though. It is their responsibility and what makes a human a human. I could see it happening, but only in a certain setting. It only seems plausible in imagination. I think that people are too attached to the exhilarating feeling of being free to be to give it up. Huxley shows that through individual thought and through the arguing of ideas that this future will not happen. Through people like Marx, you do not quite fit in. And the characters like John the Savage show that has long has people retain individuality in thought, expression, routine, and pleasures all will remain safe. For instance, if Marx's point of view had not been so different, so negative, from all the other characters' the idea that this society is not pleasurable to all would never have been revealed. It is preventable through individuality.