as property.Everybodys happy now (Brave New World, page 75) is a quote from Lenina Crowne, a character in the book. She is trying to excuse the World State for things that it is being challenged against. Lenina, or any of the other citizens, have never actually known happiness though. What they knew was artificial, not real in comparison to the true joys of life, love, marriage, childbirth, emotions, and so on. All these things were outlawed, so what they knew was nothing in comparison to true happiness. I believe that many people even to day strive for the happiness that the World State had in their own lives. People often yearn for stability, a more stress-free, stable life. It is not until the things we often despise in life are absent that we realize how much they actually meant to us and how grateful we really are for them. In a Brave New World, no one is truly happy, what they know is only an illusion conditioned into their minds.Sickness is more then a physical condition, and this is what we saw in a Brave New World. We saw a society sickened by the abuse of power. Because of the ignorance that was manifested into the creation of each person, they could not individually recognize the evils in society. Universal happiness may keep the wheels of society turning, but truth, beauty, passion, and free will and mind are a high price to pay. Happiness is never as grand as the emotions evolved in a good fight, struggle or overthrow of things you feel strongly about (temptation, misfortune, passion or doubt). Although the citizens had all the comforts happiness and pleasures that science can provide, they remained prisoners in a gilded-like cage. Their bodies become machines property without free minds and free spirits. In a Brave New World, the World State had killed a societies spirit to tame the flesh....
