Brave New World Value Analysis

Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World explores how humans find value and meaning in life. Two characters that Huxley uses to explore how humans find value and meaning are Bernard, who wants to find real feelings, and John, who thinks all humans have a basic right to value and meaning. John also goes against the World State and isolates himself to purify his life. In the Brave New World, Bernard Marx wants to find his own real feelings. In the World State people do not have their own real feelings. The citizens of the World State are conditioned to have preset emotions. This is done through the use of soma, hypnopaedic phrases, and solidarity services. The Solidarity service is a biweekly group pneumatic sex orgy. After the service was over, Bernard was hoping to find a value in the service, but still felt empty. “’Didn’t you think it was wonderful?’ she insisted. […] ‘Yes, I thought it was wonderful,’ he lied and looked away; the sight of her transfigured face was at once an accusation and ironical reminder of …show more content…
John feels that humans should have a basic right to religion or to feel that there is a God. “It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone – quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…” (Huxley 235). When John was growing up on the Savage Reservation, they believed in God. Religion is not allowed in the World State. Citizens in the World State are also conditioned to hate solitude. “We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it” (Huxley 235). At the end of their conversation, John decides that he does not want to continue to be an experiment. “I’m damned if I’ll go on being experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the World. I shall go away to-morrow too” (Huxley 243). John knows that he can find value in his life by believing in God, so he leaves to isolate himself at the abandoned