Megan Blazie

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Brave New World #1

Completely different from the society of 1984, the society of Brave New World creates forced happiness in their society through pleasure. Through the usage of sex and soma pills everyone has an "out" for their unhappy feelings. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. This lack of stability caused the turmoil before the World State and the emotion caused the lack of stability. The World State is a utopia because even though the population may be unreal, the government has succeeded in it's job of ending conflict and making it's population happy.

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