The Pursuit of Happyness in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ray Bra

Would one rather have a life with no control over what happens or would one want to have a life with some power, but a limited pursuit of happiness? The disposal in Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451 let the citizens do whatever they want to do. The only exception is that they are not to be left alone to speak out about life and the enjoyments that are involved they are supposed to live and forget. Illegal activities are considered popular in these novels. Americas society compared to these two Utopias is completely different. Things that make one happy might be illegal in Americas society, but are considered normal in the novels. With society today, people say that things are socially or politically incorrect. There is no law stating that it is flagitious to do these things. In todays society, if one had meaningless sex with another person, they would be considered a whore, or a man-whore. If a person took a pill and overdosed on it, they would b e considered an addict. In these two novels anyone can do whatever they want and nothing is considered politically incorrect .Drugs are offered at isolated will to anybody that wants them. In Huxleys Brave New World, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday (Huxley 55). This is the citizens way of escaping reality. around crowds in this book take soma estimable before an orgy-porgy and everybody has sex with one another. In Bradburys novel, people overdose on sleeping pills frequently. hoi polloi truly are not happy if they are trying to commit suicide time after time. According to the handymen, We get these cases nine or cardinal a night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built (Bradbury 15). Th... ...nge at the thought of having a mother and a father because they think that having a child is repulsive.These futuristic societies show what can happen if we follow governmental rule without questions. Huxley shows us that this can be a possible learn for things to come in Americas society if we keep doing what we are doing (Schmerl 38). This can even occur if people stop thinking critically and just follow along. Instead of people choosing their own pursuit of happiness and freedoms, they have the governments choose it for them.Works CitedBradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York Ballantine Books, 1953.Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York Pernnial Classics, 1998.Matter, Wiliam W. The utopian Tradition and Aldous Huxley. SF-TH Inc (1975) 146-151.Schmerl, Rudolf B. Aldous Huxleys Social Criticism. Chicago Review (1959) 37-58.