A Brave New World Quote Analysis

How does one achieve happiness? Money? Love? Being oneself? Brave New World consists of only 3 different ways to achieve happiness. Each character of the brave new world will have his or her different opinion of the right way to achieve happiness. In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explains many people achieve happiness through the World State’s motto – “community, identity, stability”, soma, and conditioning.

The first way Aldous Huxley shows the art of happiness is through the World State’s motto, “community, identity, and stability”. Being oneself is the best person one can be. Bernard says “I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly” (Huxley 89). Bernard gets mocked for being short but he does not want be anybody else, he wants to be himself. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if we were all the same? Lenina says “everybody belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 26). This is a powerful quote by Lenina and describes the World State society accurately how the D.H.C

Mustafa Mond says “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinated” (Huxley 53). Mond makes a statement and says people take soma to escape their mind and have happy hallucinations. Mustafa Mond says “soma is Christianity without tears”. Mond is convincing John that soma solves unpleasant emotions and avoids inefficiency and conflict. The most important thing for people is to eliminate all negative emotions and feelings. Lenina feels “A gramme is always better than a damn . . . A gramme in time saves nine . . . One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments . . . Everybody’s happy nowadays . . . Every one works for every one else . . . When the individual feels, the community reels . . . Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today . . . Progress is lovely” (Huxley 89). Lenina is saying soma is better than anything, and a gramme a day produces happiness to