Topic > True Happiness in the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

In the Brave New World, society is based on the motto "Community, identity [and] stability" (Huxley 3). In this supposedly utopian society, people who are content with their work and contribute to the consumption process contribute to their happiness. People are happy to die because they know their bodies will be cremated and used as fertilizer. Citizens are happy because they believe that "it's okay to think that you can continue to be socially useful even after death. Make plants grow” (Huxley 73). All people have a false impression of happiness because they do not realize how much the Director and higher authorities manipulate them. They don't realize how much they actually can't do. They don't realize how much they don't do for their life and for the life around them. All people think about is consumption and how it serves as happiness. Citizens are too ignorant and blind to the fact that they live just to be part of the assembly line, and that is their only purpose. John is the only character who is disgusted by the assembly line and sees how disturbing life is in the new world. He is the only one who realizes how much control the Director has over the company and how people don't even have the ability to think for themselves. He sees this invented happiness at play and starts vomiting violently out of disgust at this so-called