Brave New World Persuasive Essay

There is no denying that it is man’s innate desire to want more, to be better, and to strive for perfection. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, that same desire is what drives the World State to construct a “civilized” society where happiness determines “Community, identity, stability (Huxley, 3).” Juxtaposed to a Savage Reservation, this “Brave New World” eventually reveals itself as being anything but a Utopia, because nothing is perfect.
Set in the year 2540 in London, Huxley presents a society that promotes happiness through technological advances, promiscuous sex and drug use. There is no more war and poverty, there is only happiness. From the very beginning of the novel, we are introduced to a cold and inhumane setting. Huxley uses the metaphor “The light was frozen, dead, a ghost, (Huxley, 3),” in describing the laboratory in which humans are produced in the masses.
In the heat of the deserts of New Mexico, the Indians value spirituality and religion, truth and sacrifice, love, marriage, and family. The Indians hold ceremonies of sacrifice to the eagle, a symbol of freedom, and to Jesus. In addition to being viviparous, they practice monogamy and frown upon infidelity, exhibiting a high respect to life, love, and marriage. Aging is prevalent in many of the reservation’s inhabitants which appalls the “civilized.” While this world is seen as harsh and uncivilized to those in the World State, it is clear that Huxley attacks the fact the “Happiness is never grand (Huxley, 221).” One needs the hardships to see the beauty in overcoming obstacles and reaching success. Misfortunes are needed to see the glamour of true contentment. It is the imperfections that reveal perfection. The emotion, feeling, and truth, as found in the Savage Reservation characterize the venture towards true happiness within a society, the true happiness which the World State fails to