"'I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays"(Huxely 107).
To be free in this world means to indulge the having a good time which is not necessarily a bad thing because with the people happy that makes living happily easier. You no longer have to worry about hating people, or having to stress or feeling anything you don't want to. Although, this form of happiness in the Brave New World is for those of us who are weak. Not to say they are less important or anything, but those of us in the real world who resort to drugs to help us forget our hardships, or for recreational use, are the weakest people in the world. Drugs of any sort are a gateway from reality and if you can't handle your own reality and must divulge in other worlds by taking the path of drugs you are weak. In conclusion, in the Brave New World they are all happy, but their idea of free is taking drugs and having a good time, by making the meaning to be free reduced to just having fun this deduces the meaning of life, which is full of hardships, to just playing around.
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