Utopian Society

While reading Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, I began to notice that it is similar to two other novels called The Giver and Fahrenheit 451. The one thing that these three novels have in common is that they deal with futuristic civilizations where happiness is the main goal. They attempt to remove all the bad of the world of today; however, simultaneously they get rid of many aspects of mankind of today.

A utopian society is essentially an imagined state where all things are perfect; such as Heaven and the Garden of Eden. Utopias get rid of the bad characteristics of society. To name a few problems that we face acts of violence, crime, war, and poverty. In the novels listed above, each has their own way to create their "perfect" society. In The Giver and Brave New World, the people are engineered genetically and conditioned to be happy and like what they have. In Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451, they have a drug for the sole purpose of stimulating happiness. Everyone is treated equally and nobody has to suffer the bad of the world nevertheless in doing so many aspects of humanity is forgotten. History is not taught, emotions and feelings don't exist, and people are also stripped of their natural rights. The people in these three novels are sheep; they do not have the right of making a choice. Instead, their only actions are based upon what another person conditioned them to do.

What is a perfect society? What is perfection? Can there ever be a way to live in a peaceful and equal world without having to take away the people's freedom? 

-John Cuellar