“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. Mond argues that people only believe things because they’re told to by some outside force, whether that be hypnopaedia or just societal norms. In this utopia-er, dystopia-people are brainwashed, or hypnopaedia-ed, from the day they’re born (and born from bottles, at that). “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” The Controller informs us that while we all chase after happiness and stability, it’s never quite as grand or glamorous as struggle, suffering and instability.

And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

When he’s brought before the great Controller Mustapha Mond to answer for his crime, John gets sick of Mond’s talks of being comfortable and responds with this great rallying cry for adventure and nonconformity. John the Savage incites chaos when he throws out the soma, a government-sponsored drug, at a hospital. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. Led by a dictatorial “Controller” named Mustapha Mond, the World State is an unsettling, sinister place endowed with warped visions of an ideal society meant to alienate and disgust readers who value truth, love, beauty and freedom.īrave New World is stuffed with classic quotes and phrases that rear their heads in essays, papers and other literary works. Its insidious and disturbing story introduces us to the futuristic World State, in which citizens are genetically modified, molded into a strict social hierarchy, brainwashed into loving their own servitude and forced into a doctored happiness that comes in the form of a government-issued drug. A classic dystopian, science-fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, Brave New World has become a worldwide literary classic and a mainstay in high school English curriculums since its 1932 release.

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