Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 5, Part 1 There, in a loud and cheerful company, they ate an excellent meal. Landing on the roof of Henry’s forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining-hall. Coffee only appears once in Brave New World, and even then it’s used to wash down soma, a happy-pill drug the characters constantly take. But in the year 632 AF (After Ford - and yes, that’s Henry Ford), they’re still drinking coffee.
Aging, career quandaries, and unrequited love - unrequited anything, really, as well as any form of love - are absent in the Brave New World. Deep down inside, do each of us really yearn for some conflict, struggle, and sadness in our lives? What would be lost if we were to become permanently happy? This is what Aldous Huxley explores in Brave New World, the fifth-best novel of the 20th century if you’re inclined to believe the Modern Library editorial board.Ĭan permanent happiness be achieved without coffee? It seems implausible, and Huxley apparently agrees.
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