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John Hodges Ms. Roney World Literature 4 December 2013 Brave New World Essay Truth and happiness share a relationship of not knowing the truth, which only makes people happier. The people of the new world lost their freedoms but in return receive many pleasures. This thus adds to the apprehension of knowing the truth. They don’t want to know the truth because they are trained not to and it seems like they don’t want to know the truth, either. To avoid ever knowing the truth they use soma. By taking somas, they avoid truth whenever they are frightened by it. It in turn conceals their sorrows and instead fills them with fake hallucinations. In the story there are two types of truths. One type of truth is related to human relationships and emotions. Emotions and relationships give people great happiness, but they also can cause a great deal of pain. Due to these pains, no one forms relationships with the opposite sex. Along with this they consider it abnormal to feel attachment to someone. There are no couples or families and the idea of chastity is strongly banned. The oth...