brave new world1

             John the savage and Mustapha Mond the world controller both have their separate ideas of what happiness is. Mustapha defends the new society, pointing out the advantages that the savage world does not have, and what he perceives as the people being happy.
             "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, and I want goodness. I want sin."
             "In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
             "All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
             "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent. The right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
             "I claim them all," said the Savage at last. (1)
             John doesn't see death or life to be something that should not be enjoyed. He takes life everyday as it comes, where in the utopia it is all pre-decided for you and there are no worries. He wants the inconveniences that come with everyday life outside utopia, the freedom of being able to read Shakespeare, and other literary works that have not been locked up and hidden from the view of everyone. In john's eyes, the problem with the people in the brave new world is that they lack the freedom of making their own choices that would in turn make them happy.
             Mustapha sees the Savage as an amusing diversion, a masochist who really does not understand the situation. The World Controller lives by the credo 'Community, Identity, Stability.' All the things claimed by John are unnecessary diversions, or even harmful to individuals. What use are emotions, things that just breed unhappiness? Mustapha sees John as a stubborn individual who demands things he doesn't need, just because he doesn't have th...

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