Brave New World: Utopia Without Shakespeare? Essay -- Brave New World

Brave New humanity  Utopia Without Shakespeare?     The Utopia of the future- something every human seemingly extremitys, but is it worth it to throw away(p) everything for happiness and live in a world where only a few people can rec every(prenominal) a man named Shakespeare? In Aldous Huxleys satirical novel, Brave New World, this cellophaned world, polished and regulated to perfection, is a reality. In this Utopia, people like Bernard Marx, an intelligent and adverse Alpha, the highest class of humans, are knowing to worship the Great Ford, to believe everything the Controllers say, to amuse themselves with sports, feelies and non-utilitarian relationships and, most of all, to take soma, a drug simulating happiness, whenever a problem should arise. No matchless feels, no unrivalled reads or experiences art, no one discovers, no one cries, no one grows sometime(a), no one feels pain or fear and absolutely no one is unhappy. Different from regular Alpha s, having psychical excesses and physical shortcomings as a result of his decanting process, Bernard seeks meaning in his perfectly structured civilization. Discontented with the day-to-day routine in Utopia, Bernard attempts to venture out in search of mental and physical freedom. He does so by visiting the primitives in a simple Indian colony outside of his ordered world. There he meets the savage named earth-closet, the natural son of a Beta woman who was forced to live in the Indian village after getting doomed several years before. Natural childbirth is unheard of in Utopian society with its totally structured birth control system. Through Johns experiences and realizations in the Brave New World, the nonsense of the conditioned and controlled humans, living in Utopia, is understood. John ... ... real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. . . Im claiming the remunerate to be unhappy. . . Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer the right to have too little to eat the right to be shitty the right to live in constant apprehension of what may materialize tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be excruciate by unspeakable pains of every kind. . . I claim them all (Huxley 288). Certainly, the two existing places in Huxleys Brave New World, Utopia and the Indian village contrast drastically. By representing two totally different societies, an actual and an ideal, they add together to the central meaning of the work, to show that a perfect society in which happiness prevails is not the answer. Living your own life as an individual, in an imperfect world, is far more rewarding than Utopia.