From the moment of birth to the moment of death, humans are inundated with emotions both good and bad. Individuals are constantly searching for fulfillment, some fail to find it while others succeed. Many seek worship; love, fulfillment and greatness. In literature, authors accompany readers on journeys that allow for imagination, ensuring the reader is able to grasp inner desires and decide what is truly important in life. Literature allows readers to immerse themselves in a different world where happiness and fulfillment are abundant and eternal, also described as a utopia, while other literary pieces direct the reader into a world of dissatisfaction that is a dystopia. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is set in 26th century England. With the help of advanced technology and drugs, happiness fills the lives of people living in that period. But people are missing out on one of the most important feelings in life. This is pain or unhappiness. The society in Brave New World is very different from modern society; many aspects of life are removed such as family, monogamy and religion. The citizens of Brave New World live in false happiness with all the necessities of life provided for them, but lack a deeper satisfaction. In Brave New World, happiness is the lack of unhappiness because the inhabitants can never truly know what happiness is without experiencing true unhappiness. The Brave New World lifestyle is based on the idea that happiness is the only thing necessary in one's life. This novel suggests that the reader should look for things besides happiness because the citizens of the World State live squalid and monotonous lives that show the flaws of this so-called "perfect" society. In this… in the middle of the paper… of literature or life and has no deeply satisfying sense of family and love. Brave New World suggests that readers should seek freedom, knowledge, and love in their lives by producing human beings in test tubes while simultaneously making family, marriage, and love obsolete by removing religion and all previous knowledge of art and history, humans would lose their nature and become like robots; without emotions and without freedom or independent thought. The pursuit of happiness is a long and treacherous, superficial and misleading road. Individuals should seek meaning in life and happiness may or may not follow. Having meaning in life is much more satisfying, and meaning cannot be achieved without the freedom to seek answers to many controversial questions, without knowledge of what it means to be human, or without another individual to share this experience with..
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