From the moment of birth to the moment of death, humans are flooded with emotions both good and bad. Individuals continually seek fulfillment, some failing to find it while others succeed. Many seek worship; love, fulfillment and greatness. In literature, authors take readers on journeys that enable the imagination, giving them the opportunity to grasp their inner desires and decide what is truly important in life. Literature allows readers to delve into a different world where happiness and fulfillment are abundant and eternal, also described as a utopia, while other literary works direct the reader into a world of dissatisfaction which is a dystopia. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World takes place in 26th century England. Thanks to advanced technology and medicines, happiness fills the lives of people living in this era. But people are missing out on one of the most important feelings in life. It is sorrow or unhappiness. Brave New World society is very different from modern society; many aspects of life are suppressed, such as family, monogamy and religion. The citizens of Brave New World live in false happiness with all the necessities of life provided to them, but lack deeper satisfaction. In Brave New World, happiness is the absence of unhappiness, as the inhabitants can never truly know what happiness is without experiencing actual unhappiness. The Brave New World lifestyle is based on the idea that happiness is the only thing necessary in life. This novel suggests that the reader should seek something other than happiness, as the citizens of the World State lead bleak and monotonous lives that show the flaws of this so-called "perfect" society. Middle of paper......literature or life and does not have a deeply satisfying sense of family and love. Brave New World suggests that readers should seek freedom, knowledge, and love in their lives by producing humans in test tubes and simultaneously making family, marriage, and love obsolete, suppressing religion and any prior knowledge of art and history, humans would lose their nature and become like robots; without emotion and without freedom or independent thought. The quest for happiness is a long and treacherous path, superficial and ill-advised. Individuals should seek meaning in life and happiness may or may not follow. Having meaning in life is much more satisfying and meaning cannot be achieved without the freedom to seek the answers to many controversial questions, without the knowledge of what it means to be human, or without another individual with whom to share this experience...