Society In Brave New World

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World the use of soma clouds peoples ability to experience natural human emotions. It deprives people from understanding who they are as a human being and what they value. The drug is used as a hallucinogen and an antidepressant. Soma was designed for people to consume it when they got into tough situations or just needed a quick “holiday” away from reality. Even Bernard, who was once against the use of soma, began taking it and acting just like everyone else.

Soma is the best weapon the government in "Brave New World" can use to control their citizens and maintain their ideal society. Soma creates a clam feeling while also distracting citizens. The distraction the drug provides is it's most powerful side effect, because while taking soma the citizens do not realize that that there is actually something very wrong in their world. Using soma to keep it's citizens content is the only way the citizens of the World State, in Brave New World continue to be enslaved.

Soma is “the drug sponsored by the state to reduce or eliminate feelings of unhappiness” (Huxley 23). If a drug like Soma were to be created in today’s world it replace all the drugs in the world because there is no side effects. The number of Americans abusing prescription drugs has almost doubled from 7.8 million in 1992 to 15.1 million in 2003 (The Washington Times, 2005), where soma is used worldwide in Brave new world. The drug Soma in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, could easily be described as a modernized prescription drug.

The society in the book Brave New World, and society today have many similarities and differences. The society in Brave New World is obsessed with happiness. The Government (World State) uses soma and sex freely to keep people content. Our societies use on drugs is widely argued, but as we progress through the years the laws are becoming more lenient. States such as California and many others have passed laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

The novel, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, shows and explains how the characters consume a drug, soma, in order to avoid pain, avoid their responsibilities, and to overall avoid unhappiness. The drug is also believed to alter a person’s mood, behavior, and thinking. The characters abuse the drug in order to escape their unhappiness or their inability to be happy, even if the feeling of happiness. The Controllers of the World State use soma to suppress the curiosity of the people in the society. The drug, provided by the government, helps them escape pain, sadness, unhappiness and intensifies arousal and joy, but the characters cannot be truly happy in a controlled environment.

Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's

Humanity has experienced lot of events that changed the world radically. However, there are specific occasions that could turn the world into a completely new way. First, the invasion to Poland was the beginning of World War II. This was the main event that started one of the bloodiest Wars. If it had never happened, Germany would still be an empire with different colonies.

In Both societies they use drugs but for different reasons. In Brave New World the citizens are implemented to take soma if they feel unsatisfied, want to feel happy, or to face their daily duties. Soma is distributed by the government and the citizens are conditioned to take it and love it, it is “their perfect drug”. Soma is a necessity for them since it helps them keep their social order without anyone feeling upset. “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a

Our society is not close to the community of the Brave New World for various personal relationships. In a Brave New World society, and people learned to share with other people on a regular basis and sexual intercourse for pleasure. They believe that it gives them happiness and relieves stress. Everyone is supposed to engage with others and with various individuals and visits at least once a week for pleasure only. This is the exact opposite of our society.

In this world where people can acquire anything they need or want, we have to wonder, “Is the government controlling us?” Both the governments in A Brave New World and in the United States of America offer birth control pills and have abortion clinics that are available for everyone, thus making birth control pills and abortion operations very easy to acquire. Although both governments offer birth control pills and abortion clinics, A Brave New World’s government requires everyone to take the pills and immediately get an abortion when pregnant. This in turn shows us that A Brave New World’s government is controlling the population and the development of children. China is one of the few countries that currently have control of the

People use them to relax themselves and take their minds off what problems are in the world and their lives. Soma is the drug in the book, in real life

Antidepressants are becoming more common in today's society. Brave New World demonstrates a society that bases emotions on a drug called soma. Soma is used for numbing any sadness or emotional connections to people or objects in the World

Aldous Huxley wisely inserts many instances of distortion to the elements in Brave New World to successfully caution the world about its growing interest in technology.

One scientific advancement our world has begun studying and mastering, that brings us closer to realizing a B N W reality, is cloning. This process is very much like the Bokanovsky process in "Brave New World." In the B N W The Director of

The effects of soma are very “drug-like”. Soma is often used by the government to control or condition the members of Brave New World.The use of soma or drugs in Brave New World is different than today and the past’s usage of drugs. During the 1930s, substance abuse and addiction began to rise. In World War II, amphetamines were widely distributed to soldiers to fight fatigue and improve their mood and endurance. Marijuana and a large wave of opiate addiction began to rise greatly. Today, marijuana is the most common illicit drug used.An estimated $193 billion are spent on illicit drugs today. Like today, people during the 1930s used these drugs as “feel good” drugs. Substance abuse and addiction is still a rising problem in today's