Society kills the senses, emotions, and souls of its inhabitants with concepts known as pleasure and happiness. In recent decades, pleasure and happiness have taken on new meanings and will continue to take on new meanings as the world moves further and further through time. The novel Brave New World becomes all too real when you look at the way the author, Aldous Huxley, describes happiness through the characters in his book. In an article about Huxley's novel, Andrew Reeves, a psychology columnist at the University of Liverpool, says: "For those who have never read it, it is set at an undetermined point in the future, when universal happiness is a shared societal imperative. . People are conditioned to believe that this seems like a rare luxury that few people get to experience. Perhaps part of the reason happiness seems so elusive is that the world has come to think that all negative emotions and dark feelings are bad and should be suppressed rather than let out. It's almost as if we view sadness, anger, and other negative emotions as some kind of illness, as if it's not normal for people to feel anything other than happiness and joy. With this mindset, the world moves closer and closer to the lifestyle experienced by the characters in Brave New World. The characters move forward, blindly accepting the fact that happiness is all there is in the world. The government in the novel even gives them a medicine, called soma, in pill form to take whenever they feel anything other than happiness. In writing his novel, Huxley expressed his fear of all technological and medical advances aimed at assuaging unfavorable feelings. Andrew Reeves points this out in his article on Brave New World by saying: “Some might argue that like all good science fiction (if Brave New World falls into that genre), Huxley saw a small piece of the future. It seems that in today's quest for happiness, unhappiness and anger, for example, are too easily pathologized, and that anything less than joy and contentment is experienced as intolerable” (Reeves). Of course, there are real medical conditions, like depression, that cause a lot of pain for many people. Hopefully these people can be helped with some of the medical and technological advances that Huxley feared. However, it seems that more and more people are reporting and diagnosing illnesses, like depression, simply because of a few bad experiences. Life is actually full of ups and downs and also includes bad experiences. These bad experiences make the good ones even better. That doesn't mean it's fun