Happiness In Brave New World
Everything in the world money can buy, power greater than anyone has ever seen, love more passionate than most romantic story. Humans are diverse and therefore happiness comes through different means and comes with its own significance. On the other hand, many people with more realistic goals see happiness as fitting in to society. A fictional character from Mad Men, Don Draper, believes “It’s a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay”. I do not believe that this is real happiness, it should be something that lasts long and something that does not disappear as soon as you do not have the newest car or the most luxurious house or the most expensive shoes. When reading the novels Brave New World,
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The Hobbit and The Fault in Our Stars I have come to the realization that true happiness is in finding your purpose, making friendships that last a life time and having love that is absolute, respectively.
In Brave New World, a utopia is built through everyone having a meaningful purpose in life, something that they enjoy doing and can live for. The friendships Bilbo made in The Hobbit changed the way he looked at everything; he was a new hobbit by the end of the novel. The love that Hazel and Augustus shared was special and undying the two characters who you would not thing could be happy, were, in the end.
Always listening to you have been told, never questioning the path others have laid it for you; yes it is that easy to lose your purpose in life. Many people never truly understand themselves because they look for reassurance from others regardless if they believe what they are doing is the right thing. It is impossible to find your purpose in life without questioning society and discovering yourself. Brave new world demonstrates a world in which people are created for specific purposes. The Director in novel believes “that is secret of happiness… liking what you’ve got to do” (pg. 19). It is difficult to argue that The Director was wrong, results speak for themselves and it appears that with the exception of
two characters, everyone else was happy. People think for their whole lives, right from high school, which career path to enter and what will make them successful. Many of us forget the most important aspect in a career; does it make us happy? Do I wake up wanting to back to work? Some people go through life without finding what they would have enjoyed the most and others figure out the answers when it is too late. People tend to lose their purpose in life while searching for a sense of comfort rather than happiness. Conformity leads us away from the path to our purpose as we begin to follow the path forged by others. Bernard Marx, a doubter in the novel, believes his purpose can be found “not just as a cell in the social body” (pg. 80). It is never easy to be yourself when you do not receive the reassurance that human’s desire. However, we lose our identity by trying to just fit in and exist, moreover, we lose our purpose in life. The character demonstrates the importance of living life as an independent person, searching for what brings happiness to us without influences from others. People believe that in college and university we are able to understand ourselves because we do not have the peer pressure of high school and the limited freedom our parents give us. We cannot be happy if we do not gave a purpose in life to live for, something of great significance to us.
Many human beings have a natural desire to socialize and interact with people. Isolation is used as a form of punishment and takes away our humanity. Friendships help us to develop, forming relationships with others that are meaningful in the process of our development. Having people who care and are concerned about us brings happiness. A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins was a grumpy man who had few people who cared about him in his life. However, after an adventure that changed along with his pessimistic views on life. Bilbo made friends with a great wizard, Gandalf who said, “there is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea himself” (pg. 19). It is important not to make friendships just for the sake of having people who people there for us. True friends look at us and see us for what we really are; they have faith in us and demonstrate their understanding of how we function. This leads to happiness, having people to trust, confide in and to support us through our decisions in life. Friends give is the encouragement we desire to believe in our selves and to pursue our desires with the confidence we need. Subsequently, friendships are also a purpose in life as Bilbo demonstrated the way he feels about Thorin and that he was “[he] was glad to have shared in [his] perils” (pg. 263). When you reciprocate the feelings that a friend has towards you, a relationship is formed that becomes a purpose to live for. People become happy from knowing they are wanted and needed in someone else’s life. When we develop a friendship this strong people rely on each other to be present during times where they are needed the most. These are the friendships that can last a lifetime, detrimental to finding our place in society and our path towards the ultimate goal of happiness.
Above all, arguably the most powerful human emotion and feeling we have is love. Saying that, it is fitting that this feeling is not just something we all desire but also something that genuinely brings happiness into our lives. In The Fault in Our Stars Augustus and Hazel are the perfect examples of this love. “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you” (pg. 153), said Augustus when describing how he feels for Hazel. Everything in life is temporary and death haunts us our entire life with the only thing helping us forget about that is happiness. Having a love so strong for someone that it puts all other feelings of oblivion aside is something that humans desire to be happy. This is different from a sexual infatuation, which is not true love and will only lead to temporary happiness. This love is significant, and goes through many depths of our feelings. Ultimately this may be most difficult thing leading us towards happiness, as Gus tells Hazel when his cancer returns, “the world is not a wish-granting factory” (pg. 214). We cannot just wish for love or try to go out and force it happen, it must occur on its own. This is what makes it so difficult, however in my opinion, the most rewarding form of achieving happiness.
Happiness is subjective to everyone, however it is evident that the most common way to achieve this goal is through having a purpose in life, meaningful friendship and in a love that is absolute and just infatuation. To happy is to the feeling of being wanted here or to be needed here. Some people argue that there is no such thing and that “happiness is a moment before you need more happiness” (Don Draper, Mad Men), but in acquiring one or more of the above, happiness truly can be attained. Although each person has their own view on the matter, I believe that the moment you give up on figuring out who you are and what makes you happy, you are giving up on life it’s self.
The Hobbit and The Fault in Our Stars I have come to the realization that true happiness is in finding your purpose, making friendships that last a life time and having love that is absolute, respectively.
In Brave New World, a utopia is built through everyone having a meaningful purpose in life, something that they enjoy doing and can live for. The friendships Bilbo made in The Hobbit changed the way he looked at everything; he was a new hobbit by the end of the novel. The love that Hazel and Augustus shared was special and undying the two characters who you would not thing could be happy, were, in the end.
Always listening to you have been told, never questioning the path others have laid it for you; yes it is that easy to lose your purpose in life. Many people never truly understand themselves because they look for reassurance from others regardless if they believe what they are doing is the right thing. It is impossible to find your purpose in life without questioning society and discovering yourself. Brave new world demonstrates a world in which people are created for specific purposes. The Director in novel believes “that is secret of happiness… liking what you’ve got to do” (pg. 19). It is difficult to argue that The Director was wrong, results speak for themselves and it appears that with the exception of
two characters, everyone else was happy. People think for their whole lives, right from high school, which career path to enter and what will make them successful. Many of us forget the most important aspect in a career; does it make us happy? Do I wake up wanting to back to work? Some people go through life without finding what they would have enjoyed the most and others figure out the answers when it is too late. People tend to lose their purpose in life while searching for a sense of comfort rather than happiness. Conformity leads us away from the path to our purpose as we begin to follow the path forged by others. Bernard Marx, a doubter in the novel, believes his purpose can be found “not just as a cell in the social body” (pg. 80). It is never easy to be yourself when you do not receive the reassurance that human’s desire. However, we lose our identity by trying to just fit in and exist, moreover, we lose our purpose in life. The character demonstrates the importance of living life as an independent person, searching for what brings happiness to us without influences from others. People believe that in college and university we are able to understand ourselves because we do not have the peer pressure of high school and the limited freedom our parents give us. We cannot be happy if we do not gave a purpose in life to live for, something of great significance to us.
Many human beings have a natural desire to socialize and interact with people. Isolation is used as a form of punishment and takes away our humanity. Friendships help us to develop, forming relationships with others that are meaningful in the process of our development. Having people who care and are concerned about us brings happiness. A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins was a grumpy man who had few people who cared about him in his life. However, after an adventure that changed along with his pessimistic views on life. Bilbo made friends with a great wizard, Gandalf who said, “there is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea himself” (pg. 19). It is important not to make friendships just for the sake of having people who people there for us. True friends look at us and see us for what we really are; they have faith in us and demonstrate their understanding of how we function. This leads to happiness, having people to trust, confide in and to support us through our decisions in life. Friends give is the encouragement we desire to believe in our selves and to pursue our desires with the confidence we need. Subsequently, friendships are also a purpose in life as Bilbo demonstrated the way he feels about Thorin and that he was “[he] was glad to have shared in [his] perils” (pg. 263). When you reciprocate the feelings that a friend has towards you, a relationship is formed that becomes a purpose to live for. People become happy from knowing they are wanted and needed in someone else’s life. When we develop a friendship this strong people rely on each other to be present during times where they are needed the most. These are the friendships that can last a lifetime, detrimental to finding our place in society and our path towards the ultimate goal of happiness.
Above all, arguably the most powerful human emotion and feeling we have is love. Saying that, it is fitting that this feeling is not just something we all desire but also something that genuinely brings happiness into our lives. In The Fault in Our Stars Augustus and Hazel are the perfect examples of this love. “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you” (pg. 153), said Augustus when describing how he feels for Hazel. Everything in life is temporary and death haunts us our entire life with the only thing helping us forget about that is happiness. Having a love so strong for someone that it puts all other feelings of oblivion aside is something that humans desire to be happy. This is different from a sexual infatuation, which is not true love and will only lead to temporary happiness. This love is significant, and goes through many depths of our feelings. Ultimately this may be most difficult thing leading us towards happiness, as Gus tells Hazel when his cancer returns, “the world is not a wish-granting factory” (pg. 214). We cannot just wish for love or try to go out and force it happen, it must occur on its own. This is what makes it so difficult, however in my opinion, the most rewarding form of achieving happiness.
Happiness is subjective to everyone, however it is evident that the most common way to achieve this goal is through having a purpose in life, meaningful friendship and in a love that is absolute and just infatuation. To happy is to the feeling of being wanted here or to be needed here. Some people argue that there is no such thing and that “happiness is a moment before you need more happiness” (Don Draper, Mad Men), but in acquiring one or more of the above, happiness truly can be attained. Although each person has their own view on the matter, I believe that the moment you give up on figuring out who you are and what makes you happy, you are giving up on life it’s self.