Pleasure In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

People work to gain money; people gain money to buy necessities and luxuries; people buy necessities and luxuries to maintain good health, a sense of well-being, and most importantly, individual happiness -- this cycle of labor is of no such surprise to us. Being content in life means enduring jobs, tasks, businesses, school, college, and other obstacles. And sometimes, at the end of the day from this repetitive cycle, we end up sacrificing the sanity of our minds, and possibly, the purpose of our own individual human lives. For this reason, entertainment and pleasure, both renowned concepts in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, exist to dismiss the weight of responsibility off of one’s shoulders and to make us forget, even if it is just for a moment. George Orwell, author of dystopian novel 1984, and Aldous Huxley both have clarity and truth in their predictions of the conditions of our future world, but, Huxley’s side is more valid due to the frightening …show more content…
It may seem harmless or inconsequential to the viewer since it is intended for sexual pleasure, yet the audience fails to realize its damaging long term effects. Sex scenes portray youthful, attractive actors in unrealistic situations -- most of the time, of which are unethical and misleading -- and it is all made to look casual and acceptable. Normally, overzealous use of something will soon numb a person's contentment with the subject. In this sense, sex loses its intimacy, privacy, and emotional experience: this is what results in Brave New World’s unemotional, desensitized World State society. Sex has been numbed in the sense of its emotional value, and it exists to only pass the time. Just like in Brave New World, sex is no longer special in our lives; through pornography, it descends into the public sphere as another form of entertainment comparable to video games and amusement