Blog #3

The argument essentially is arguing for freedom. Yes, the society has comfort and "happiness", or at least, lack of sadness, anger, shock- "negative emotions"... but for this, the humans are like children. They have known no suffering. Mustapha Mond's argument is that this is better, to know no suffering, and have no freedom to know suffering. The savage, John, however, believes that the world is better with suffering... because when one has the freedom to suffer, one knows what happiness truly is, and one appreciates it. The people in the society do not appreciate anything because everything is handed to them. The savage is making the argument that he would much rather feel the pain and appreciate the happiness, because he has the experience of feeling the pain, and the freedom to experience it. His argument is that the freedom to be happy and sad and to live one's life the desired way is many times better than a controlled state of constant contentment.