Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What is Brave New World about?
Position‹3 of 4›

The Incompatibility of Happiness and Truth

The reading that Huxley's novel is organised around a single trade, in which contentment is secured by giving up truth, difficulty and depth, and that its real question is whether that exchange is one a society should make.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. The novel's governing question is what has to be surrendered to make people content
  2. This reading is the one that makes the novel a dilemma rather than a warning