What if there was a place where you didn't have to, or rather, where you couldn't 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, many different attitudes are described in an attempt to make the reader think about possible changes in our society and how they might affect its inhabitants. Brave New World is a disturbing, loveless and even sinister world. place. Indeed, Huxley gives his “ideal” society characteristics likely to alienate his audience. Typically, reading Brave New World arouses in the reader the same unsettling feelings that the society it depicts has theoretically vanquished - not a sense of joyful anticipation. Huxley's novel presents a surprising vision of the future that, at first glance, seems almost comical. But his intention is not humor. Huxley's message is dark and depressing. His idea that in the coming centuries a one-world government will rise to power, stripping people of their freedoms, 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 overall approach like that of mindless robots. For example, Soma, not nuclear bombs, is the weapon of choice for the world controllers of Brave New World. World leaders have understood that fear and intimidation have only limited power; these tactics only fuel resentment in the minds of the oppressed. In contrast, subconscious persuasion and psychotropic drugs appear to have no side effects. The caste system of this brave new world is just as ingenious. Freed from the burdens and stresses of a capitalist system, which separates people into social classes by natural selection, this dictatorial government need only determine the correct number of Alphas, of Betas, down the line. Class war does not exist because greed, the fundamental ingredient of capitalism, has been eliminated. Even the Deltas and Epsilons are content to do their manual labor. This contentment arises both from genetic engineering and from the extensive conditioning that each individual undergoes in 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, with the exception of Bernard and the Savage, are content to take their ration of soma, go to the feelings and live their gray and senseless lives..