Simulated Happiness in the World
Eda Cayir
Citation : Eda Cayir, Simulated Happiness in the World International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 2019;7(7):1-3.
In Huxley's Brave New World and Zamyatin's We - both of which uncoincidentally came out of the 1900s - machine-like people, or more precisely, people-like creatures come to exist in an 'unquestionable' world. That unquestionnability has such a huge dominance over 'people being, or in other words, claiming that they are happy' that one can frequently encounter the concept of 'happiness' throughout the two novels. The common understanding of both novels is a world based on a functional mechanism, which means 'coded, incubated, conditioned' people such as D-503, O, R-13, Alfa, Beta etc. Therefore, the argument will aim to lay bare, through the settings and the discourses, the latent content rather than the visible one, and at what level citizens of the two depicted societies are happy.