Happiness In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

Happiness is tempting, but it’s not always pure. In A Brave New World, a futuristic- historical blended novel by Aldous Huxley, happiness is a facade, and a trick, like a piece of candy, used by the government. The novel reflects history, but in correspondence, predicts the future. When new faces were brought into the world, the indigenous people were disgusted by their qualities of real human beings. The “civilized” ones were nauseated by old age, solitude, and thoughts of God and science. These are all very natural features of people, but they were appalled by it. The government in the civilized world warped the brains of its people. Being easy in bed was impressive, people who had unorthodox ideas were viewed as troubled, and Soma drowned
He viewed the conditioning, god, science, life in very nonconformist ways. He wasn’t allowed to think the things he thought, he wasn’t allowed to be sad. But he was. This was his downfall in society because he was noticeably unlike his peers. His outlook on life is what piloted him towards John and the Savage Reservation. He was attracted to the idea of the unfamiliar lifestyle in the reservation. While he was conditioned in the same way as Lenina and the others, he was uneasy about the image of old age, but it didn’t plague him as much as the rest of the civilized (120). There were many events throughout the novel that displayed Marx as “weird”. At one point, he was extremely embarrassed because Lenina accepted his request to go on a visit together in public (69). This was very normal in their society, but he disapproved of how she flaunted their intimate weekend. This made him very different from the other men who had been with Lenina before, as she’s “wonderful and pneumatic”, having her was something many of the other guys boasted about. When she made a move on him, he said “I meant alone, for talking” (98). In today’s world, Bernard’s views would be pretty typical, but in the civilized life, he was seen as very