Truth vs Happiness Brave New World

About the Book...

BRAVE

NEW

WORLD

Written by Aldous Huxley

Presented by Tony Sader

• Aldous Huxley's 5th Novel

• Written in 1931 while Huxley was living in Italy

About Aldous Huxley

• Born in England in 1894

• Dead at the age of 69 in 1963

• Wrote ten novels, Most known being The Island and Brave New World

• Aldous Huxley was a Humanist

Summary

• The book is set in 632 A.F. (After Ford)
• The government does everything it possibly can to ensure people stay happy.
• Society is Controlled by World Controllers. They ensure Stability of society.
• People are created in eggs. - 5 Classes.
• People are sleep tought - Propaganda Like.
• Soma - A drug of happiness

Humanism

Humanism is a way of thinking and living that aims to bring out the best in people, so that all people may have the best in life. Humanists reject all supernatural and authoritarian beliefs and believe that we must take responsibility for our own lives and for the community and world in which we live. The humanist life-stance emphasizes rational and scientific inquiry, individual freedom and responsibility, and the need for tolerance and cooperation.

--The International Humanist and Ethical Union

Truth

vs

Happiness

By Eliminating all things that can possibly harm or lead to unhappiness, the society is deprived of the truth, ultimatly leading to a life of stability and happiness.

"Oh,

God, God, God"

p. 187

"Because I'm unhappy again; that's why.

'Well I'd rather be unhappy then have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

'I like that."

p.163

No Emotions, Love

or Family

Good Bye

Free Will

Hello Drugs

and Sex

No Religion,

Books,

History.

Only Ford.

"Bokanovskie's process

is one of the major instruments

of social stability" p.18

"Two Children,

a little boy of about seven and a little girl

who might have been a bit older...

were playing a rudimentary sexual game."

p.38

"Yes, Everybody's happy now,"

echoed Lenina.

They had heard the words repeated

a hundred and fifty times every night

for twelve years,"

p.78

"The words mother and father

have become the ultimate

in unmentionable obscenity"

p.49

"History is Bunk

p.34

"You've got to choose between

happiness

and what people used to

call high art.

We've sacrificed the high art"

p.199

"God in the safe,

and Ford

on the Shelves"

p. 208

"No Social Stability

without

individual stability"

p.47

"Why you don't take soma

when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them.

And instead of feeling

miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly,"

p.89

"The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma."

p.199

Although the humans in Brave New World suffer from a massive dehumanization and are not given the truth, they still live an unauthentic yet happy life.