Black Hole

So i feel really scatter brained right now. I’ll try to kinda sort through random ideas. Brave New World seems really dark and empty, but that there is an underlying meaning in this.

I feel that I could potentially write an essay on how life becomes meaningless in the society depicted in the novel and ponder whether this is also occurring in today’s society. Death is irrelevant and happiness is falsified, so people don’t have any depth to their personalities. The director believes that “Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?”(148) People are not cherished but used merely as robots for the sake of industry. Without having parents or spouses, the characters in the story develop few emotional attachments that need to be mourned. The citizens in Brave New World are apathetic toward death. Death is the equivalent to, “Oh darn! I have to wait at another red light.” In the same way, death would not upset citizens to the point that soma couldn’t help. Since death becomes indifferent, individualism is abolished.

Happiness loses its meaning since it is forged. As we discussed in class, “How can people experience sadness, if they never know true happiness?”

This brings more essay topics to mind. Is Ford an acceptable God for the Brave New World society? He is not a supernatural being. He was a human who was a sinner, not any better than anyone else. Why does society feel that he can define the rules that they live by? Industry is not relevant enough to be the focal point of a society. People will become bored with it.

In my essay, I plan to reference the Bible and any historical books that discuss problems in the government during Huxley’s lifetime. One thesis idea that I have is: In Brave New World, Huxley provides a fictitious warning that life will become a meaningless void, if happiness is falsified and death goes unmourned.