What if there was a place where you are not forced, or rather, cannot think for yourself? A place where happiness was controlled and rationed? How would you adapt without freedom of thought, speech or happiness in general? In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, there are many different attitudes described with the aim of making the reader think about possible changes in our society and how they could affect its people. Brave New World is a disturbing, loveless and even sinister tale. This is because Huxley endows his "ideal" society with characteristics calculated to alienate his audience. Typically, reading Brave New World elicits in the reader the same unsettling feelings that the society it describes has theoretically defeated, not a sense of joyful anticipation. Huxley's novel presents a startling vision of the future that on the surface appears almost comical. His intent, however, is not humor. Huxley's message is dark and depressing. His idea that in the centuries to come a world government will come to power, taking away people's freedom, is not a new idea. What makes Huxley's interpretation different is the fact that his fictional society not only lives in a totalitarian government, but takes an inclusive approach like mindless robots. For example, Soma, and not nuclear bombs, is the World Controllers' weapon of choice in Brave New World. World leaders have understood that fear and intimidation have only limited power; these tactics do nothing but fuel resentment in the minds of the oppressed. Subconscious persuasion and mind-altering drugs, on the other hand, appear to have no side effects. The caste system of this new world is equally ingenious. Free from the burdens and strains of a capitalist system, which separates people into social classes through natural selection, this dictatorial government is only required to determine the correct number of Alphas and Betas across the board. Class warfare does not exist because greed, the fundamental ingredient of capitalism, has been eliminated. Even the Deltas and Epsilons are content to do their manual work. This contentment comes from both genetic engineering and the extensive conditioning that each individual undergoes during childhood. In this society, freedom, like art and religion, has been sacrificed for what Mustapha Mond calls happiness. Indeed, almost all of Huxley's characters, except Bernard and the Savage, are content to take their packs, go to the movies, and live their gray, mindless lives...