social stability and physical happiness. If life is too easy, how can we really appreciate it but if life is too difficult, how do we cope with the suffering?Aldous Huxleys novel seems to have a prophetic tone seventy years after it was written. Our societys priorities, like the one in the Brave New World, seem to be quite shallow in its obsession with physical appearance and conspicuous consumption of material objects. People undergo surgery to improve their appearance and maintain their youthful image of themselves. People, generally, judge others as well as themselves by their possessions, status, and appearance, rather than the quality of their character. Cloning is no longer science fiction, and with increasing technology, the absolute need for mothers and fathers could disappear. At what point does social stability outweigh human nature? There needs to be a balance between physical and actual happiness, and where the proper balance should be is questionable. Huxley doesnt have the answer, but he leaves the reader with an idea of why balance is so hard to find: Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery (Huxley 221)....
