Pessimistic View of Human Nature

[Spencer]

I'm conducting a research paper on Aldous Huxley. I have to pick his most popularized title and analyze it in my own words...Words can't even express what I felt after completing this novel. I had so many abstract thoughts in my head that I could hardly go to sleep. This novel is deep, yet comprehendable. He makes fun of people that want to live "happy" lives by creating a society where it's socially unacceptable to be sad. He takes everything that can cause depression, sadness, and instability in our society, and completely deletes it from his brave new world. No siblings, no wives, no mothers or fathers, no individuality, no history, no war, no crime. And he shows how no matter what society deems necessary to create a uptopian state, something will go wrong. John the Savage, Bernard Marx, Linda...they pretty much screwed it up. I hate books like this because after I read them, I can't stop brainstorming on what the world would be like, or why John never slept with Lenina, or why ...why?

[_Pamela_]

I absolutely agree with you, they were my feelings too, it was an amazing book but screwed my head up a bit. It demonstrates life as being either "happy" which has been interpreted as deleting all sources of unhappiness and replacing it with a drug, or fighting for "the right to be unhappy", which makes u wonder since the main thing people want in life is to be happy. I have to do a research project too but do not have a topic yet. Any ideas how i can use Brave New World? I need other texts too.

[Charles Darnay]

An essay on Brave New World is easy becasue the theories of distopia are so common. the way that it (and 1984 - in a different way) makes you feel (o, and Handmaid's Tale) is the point of the distopian novel. They show you a world in which everything seems as it should be, and yet, there is always that one thing missing - and this causes everything to collapse?

I do not know what greade either of you are in, but if you feel like writing a really academic paper, look of Thomas More's Utopia - the foundation of all books on utopias/distopias. Also, if you need other texts, check out 1984 and Handmaid's Tale. Those four texts are all you need to write an amazing distopian paper