conflict of happiness and truth theme

Question 1

characters

Answer 1

try to avoid facing the truth about their own situations - soma is an example of this willful self-delusion

Question 2

soma

Answer 2

clouds the realities of present and replaces them with happy hallucinations, and is thus a tool for promoting social stability

“a gramme in time saves nine”

Question 3

Mustapha Mond

Answer 3

says that the WS prioritizes happiness at the expense of truth by design: he believe that people are better off with happiness than truth

Question 4

WS controls

Answer 4

and muffles all efforts by citizens to gain any sort of scientific truth

the government also attempts to destroy “human truths”, like love and friendship

Question 5

happiness achieved in 3 ways

Answer 5

biological science and psychological conditioning to make citizens enjoy themselves

promotion of promiscuous sex as virtuous

sadness forgotten through use of soma

Question 6

cost of happiness?

Answer 6

by satisfying every desire it creates a superficial and infantile happiness that creates stability that eliminates deep thought, new ideas and strong passions

Question 7

shakespeare

Answer 7

“a marvelloous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about”

Question 8

love

Answer 8

“hug me till you drug me honey”

“happiness is never grand”

Question 9

tension between

Answer 9

individual freedom and social stability

“any form of order is better than chaos”

Question 10

doesn’t attempt to present

Answer 10

a detailed picture of life in the future, but instead how it would affect human nature

Question 11

target of the satire is sexuality and attitudes

Answer 11

Freud’s ideas on sexuality were gaining widespread acknowledgement - this is satirised in the novel as it depicts mindless sex as the norm, promiscuity as socially desirable and sex play encouraged between children