I am not satisfied with Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, because to me it looks like the society in the book is being depicted as one in which there is nothing that can bring it down. This goes against the fundamental assumption I have made that there will always be a flaw that brings down an attempt at creating a utopian society. There are several flaws followed throughout the book, but they are all dealt with, and the loose ends are tied up. Some of the characters even make the decision to deliberately attempt to show the others in their society that they should change. Their attempt failed. Unlike in examples found in some communist societies' downfalls, the citizenry do not unite against society when a leader presents them self. The book, in my opinion, shows a society in which which everyone is happy. This includes the characters who seemed to be unhappy, because they are sent somewhere else to with people of like mind where they will be happy. If everyone within a society is happy, then it is a utopia.
I think that Huxley intended for the book to give people a fear of the possibility that our world could turn into the one in his book if we are not careful. We are meant to be worried so that we won't let it happen. I don't think that he succeeds in that goal. He has instead shown a world where either everyone is happy, or they can be appeased so that they will be happy. I for one, would not mind living in the society he creates in his fictional portrayal of the future. The only problem is that it is just that, fictional. Despite how Huxley's work of fiction ends, in reality, it seems far more likely that something would have eventually gone wrong to upset the stability, as with every other example of attempts at creating a utopia.
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