Bernard Brave New World Quote Analysis
Being unhappy should be enjoyed by everyone. We must experience a wide range of emotions in order to learn how to handle everything life throws at us. According to Bernard in Brave New World, ‘[he would] rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness that he was having here”, (179) this quote means that he would rather be unhappy than live in a happy lie. This book describes a utopian world yet there’s a quote in the book that is in direct conflict with the “utopian” world they are living in. What could happiness and unhappiness mean to people? According to dictionaries, happiness means good fortune, pleasure and joy. Unhappiness means sad, miserable, and unlucky. Each person has his or her own definition of happiness and
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According to my own experiences, I lost two of my precious best friends and they taught me really good lessons before leaving me, they taught me how to never trust any kind of person because they were taught that way and told me to never trust anyone, because now or later they are going to stab your back. One of my other experiences was that moment that my grand-mother left us, before her death, she used to tell us “I don’t want to leave all of you feeling sad, in my death I want to see all of you smiling”. When she left us, she left everyone smiling. Even in her funeral, people celebrated like it was a wedding and not a funeral. Unhappiness is showed by everyone. Nobody has a perfect life. Even in a utopia there’s unhappiness when there’s supposed to be happiness. As shown in Brave New World’s utopia in the World State, John loses his mother Linda due to her wanting happiness by taking Soma, which ends up killing her, the feeling for John was that he was suffering and ended up killing himself due to the unhappiness he felt during this tragic
According to my own experiences, I lost two of my precious best friends and they taught me really good lessons before leaving me, they taught me how to never trust any kind of person because they were taught that way and told me to never trust anyone, because now or later they are going to stab your back. One of my other experiences was that moment that my grand-mother left us, before her death, she used to tell us “I don’t want to leave all of you feeling sad, in my death I want to see all of you smiling”. When she left us, she left everyone smiling. Even in her funeral, people celebrated like it was a wedding and not a funeral. Unhappiness is showed by everyone. Nobody has a perfect life. Even in a utopia there’s unhappiness when there’s supposed to be happiness. As shown in Brave New World’s utopia in the World State, John loses his mother Linda due to her wanting happiness by taking Soma, which ends up killing her, the feeling for John was that he was suffering and ended up killing himself due to the unhappiness he felt during this tragic