Brave New World: utopia without Shakespeare? The utopia of the future - something that every human being seems to want, but is it worth throwing everything away for happiness and living in a world that only a few people can remember a man named Shakespeare? In Aldous Huxley's satirical novel, Brave New World, this cellophane world, polished and tuned to perfection, is a reality. In this utopia, people like Bernard Marx, an intelligent and hostile Alpha, the highest class of humanity, are conditioned to worship the Big Ford, to believe everything the Controllers say, to have fun with sports, emotions” and non-utilitarian relationships. and especially taking soma, a happiness-simulating drug, whenever a problem arises. No one feels, no one reads or experiences art, no one discovers, no one cries, no one ages, no one feels pain or fear and absolutely no one is unhappy. Different from ordinary Alphas, having mental excesses and physical defects as a result of his settling process, Bernard seeks meaning in his perfectly structured civilization. Dissatisfied with the daily routine of "Utopia", Bernard attempts to venture out in search of mental and physical freedom. He does this by visiting primitives in a simple Indian village outside of his ordered world. There he meets the savage named John, the "natural" son of a Beta woman who was forced to live in the Indian village after becoming lost several years before. Natural childbirth is unknown in the utopian society with its completely structured birth control system. Through John's experiences and achievements in Brave New World, we understand the meaninglessness of conditioned and controlled humans living in utopia. John...... middle of paper ...... real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. . . I claim the right to be unhappy. . . Not to mention the right to grow old, ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to eat too little; the right to be ugly; the right to live in constant apprehension of what could happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pain of all kinds. . . I claim them all (Huxley 288). Certainly, the two existing places in Huxley's “Brave New World”, Utopia and the Indian village, contrast radically. By representing two completely different societies, a real society and an ideal society, they contribute to the central meaning of the work, to show that a perfect society in which happiness reigns is not the solution. Living your own life as an individual, in an imperfect world, is much more rewarding than utopia.