How To Create A Utopia In Brave New World Essay

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Almost all of the people seem really happy, you can see they have an attempt to have a have a utopia, they have a solution when they become unhappy with the drug “Soma” so theoretically they should be happy all of the time, Whenever they are frustrated, sad or depressed, they just use “Soma” and bliss out.
But is it real happiness when you drug yourself to be happy. It looks like they have a more chemical happiness then a real sort of happiness. Everything is sorted out for them, no issues is to be found in their life, in that society. While the majority of the people seems happy, it's hard to say if its utopia or dystopi, A society where people are told what to do, a society where people drug them self to happiness, and where there is no such thing like feelings, family, freedom, culture, art, literature, religion, philosophy, science, thats not a life called utopia.

Utopia is a society with freedom, there are no one that controls you, your not told what to do, you have the freedom to do whatever you
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In the other hand we have dystopia (“not-good place”), where at first seems like a bad place to live, with crime and war, a society with problems, people can be depressed, a place where there constantly frightening to live a life, This is dystopia, but not in a good way, more in a bad way.
In the book we can se have they dont have feelings, something I think is a important part of a society. It`s feelings that makes us human beings, without that we become darker and more unhappy, we could otherwise be compared with a object. If you view a society with individual achievement, then I would say that “Brave New World” is a dystopia soiscty.

So it depends how you se happiness, because utopia or dystopi is somethings that you need to decide if the book is based

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