Imagine you are talking to your best friend about how you felt that day and how word got to your boss that you are too emotional at outside of working hours and now you're about to be sent to an island with like-minded people. The last thing you feel is happy, but you are not allowed to be unhappy, because you grew up without this emotion, so you inject yourself with pills instead to improve your mood. This is the environment that Aldous Huxley presents in Brave New World, a futuristic society where humans are raised in bottles and manipulated to meet certain criteria, or "conditioned" from the time they are embryos. In this new society, emotions, religion and culture are sacrificed for social stability. People are granted no knowledge of the past and everything is explained only in the most basic truth. The freedoms we enjoy today are almost completely abolished. Naturally, we associate happiness with the ability to do whatever we want in life, so if we didn't have this ability, could we still be happy in life? In the novel it seems to be achievable on the surface, but when you look deeper, you see that humans respond to their environment in different ways. The reason why the citizens of this new society seem happy is a relative thing; they have little experience with mental pain. The society they live in is devoid of love and they are quite unintelligent. The citizens of the novel have been conditioned by the state since they were embryos. The State has manipulated every single aspect of the development of these new children, thus giving them every chance to build a “perfect” society. During the conditioning of these children, the state eliminated mental pain altogether. These children have no idea what pain really is. However, you can banish the knowledge of pain, but you cannot banish the conditions that cause it. In the case of Bernard Marx, this condition manifested itself in the form of harassment regarding his physical appearance; and for Helmholtz Watson it meant finding life and work meaningless. These conditions are uncontrollable by any external force, and no matter how much the state tries to eliminate the causes of pain, for example by making everyone look the same and filling these people's lives with materialistic pageants, it continues to ignore them. or two strange individuals.