What Does Happiness Mean In Brave New World

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Different people look for happiness in a different way. With Merriam Webster definies it as “the state of being happy”, there are so many different options of true happiness. People grow up still trying to find their definition of happiness. Dale Cargine once said “happiness doesn’t depend upon who are, or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.” In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley the readers see in this society, people think taking a drug will make them happy, being control is happiness, and losing one’s individuality is a must when comes to finding happiness in their society.
Some may say soma helps their government control their people, but it is to be guess that being happy is having somebody control you. Bernard is one of the characters in the book that
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One day he asked lenina a question. “‘Don’t you wished you were free, lenina?’ ‘I don’t know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays’”(91). Lenina and Bernard cannot come to agreement when it comes to the word free. Lenina thinks she is free and happy, but she has been told she is free and happy. The language has been poisoned and is as controlled by the State as citizens are. Lenina is happy, but only behind a control government. John, who is also called the savage will also like be free from the State. He wants to help others to do so as well, but to do that he will need to destroy soma. “‘Free, free!’ the Savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area… ‘Free!’...throwing the poison out by handfuls through the open window...He picked up the cash-box and showed them its black emptiness. ‘You’re free!’ Howling the Deltas charged with redoubled fury” (213). The deltas should be happy that they are free now, but it seems like they are anger. The deltas prefer to take their soma even