False Happiness In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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To achieve false happiness; the World State used technology and drugs to make their society a perfect “heaven”. In the Utopian society, people are assumed to be in a world of sunshine and bluebonnets, and not care what lies beyond their Ford society. Technology is the mastermind in producing the perfect society, and the people are their lab rats. Drugs are used to hallucinate things, make the people happy, and live in a dreamlike state. Is having false happiness the best thing, do we need to forget what makes us humans, or do we need to be robots and follow the Ford’s commands? “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is about a dystopian society where people are hidden from the truth of the outside world until John the savage disturbs the society …show more content…
The World State is focused on industry, economy and technological growth to make their world perfect. Everything is used in some manner to make the World State a stable carefree life. In Brave New World they use technology in order for them to not think.A factory where they develop human beings and set them into the five caste system: the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. This process separates them so that each group is assigned to a specific work they need to do for the community. They are programmed what to do, how to respond, and how to react to things given to them. They clone the members of the society so that everyone looks the same one way or another.The community use conditioning to get rid of any feelings or thinking that happened to them. Soma is the drug the citizens used to relieve any ill thoughts, and it lets them let their mind free from any thoughts. “How perfect can this world be; if people are dying from soma”. For instance the savages mother, Linda dies because she is addicted to it. Soma is used if they don’t know how to things right; soma gets the job done. Without the use of technology their structure of social order won’t work. Technology plays a key role in maintaining a balance in social structure of World State, everything from creating people to conditioning where they go and to keep stability with

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