Evaluate what is more important in life, happiness or free will.
Free will holds more value in life than happiness, each decision you make should be yours to make no matter the outcome. Happiness is YOUR view on life, the view that you alone can only have; No government, no radical group, no religion has the right to strip that view from you.
A motif that presents itself throughout Brave New World is that all of the characters who have the ideology to be free are all miserable in their life. The characters who are sad are blesses in their society for being able to be sad, not some mindless, emotionless drone without a care in the world"'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't kinow what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody is happy nowadays.'...'But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, lenina? In your own way, for example, not in everybody else's way?'"(Huxley 91). Bernard cares for Lenina but she lacks the understand to comprehend what happiness is. Lenina's happiness is the same as the government tells her it is, a gramme of soma to dull the pain of the dystopic world they live in.
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