Dystopia In Brave New World

Today’s government is flawed, it is not perfect and neither are the people under it, but the government situation that we have today is not even close to the troublesome governments that are found in the dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World. The term utopia describes a world that is filled with peace and happiness. A dystopia, on the other hand is a world filled with manipulation, controlling government, and sadness. In Huxley’s Brave New World he shows the reader his idea of a futuristic dystopia where babies are born in bottles and the citizens are taught their morals through sleep teaching. Bernard is a character who feels like he doesn't fit into the society that he has found himself in. In Orwell's 1984, Winston also feels like an outcast in his society because he understands that the …show more content…
In Brave New World the government tells the people that they are happy and they use “soma” to enforce this false sense of happiness. The difference between Brave New World and 1984 is that the government in Brave New World focuses on keeping their people happy, even though they use unusual means. 1984, on the other hand, does not support happiness in the least. The people of Oceania do not even believe that happiness exists, “She did not understand that there is no such thing as happiness…(135).” While the government in Brave New World strongly encourages happiness, the happiness that they promote is not true, earned happiness. The Savage much prefers the earned happiness that he has experienced compared to the synthetic happiness that his Fordship promotes. John vouches for his preference by declaring, “I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin… I’m claiming the right to be unhappy (163).” By claiming this right to be unhappy, he also claims the right to be happy when he deserves it, not just when he swallows