Soma In Brave New World

The future of the world is a place of blooming business and stability. Being safe and happy are at a record high, and not one person suffers from depression or any other mental illnesses. There are no more wars; there is peace and harmony throughout the world. With the world being free from sickness and mental illness, there is a lot happiness and satisfied people in the social classes. When the social classes get to be too much or something injustice occurs, there is a simple solution to the problem, which is soma. The usage of soma completely manipulates and controls the perfect society described in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. Soma also represent the society a complete society. This happiness medication is the solution to all of

In the words of Bangambiki Habyarimana, “It’s better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.” Aldous Huxley plays off this idea through the creation of soma in his novel, Brave New World. The novel is a dark play off the idea of a “utopian” society, in which humans are genetically bred and conditioned to serve the government. The citizens of the World State have a change of perspective once a savage comes to live in their society with his mother. Soma plays a large part in Brave New World, acting as a drug that all citizens of the World State are dependent on. Huxley uses soma to present the central theme that ignorance of the World State citizens helps the government and hurts the individual.

Brave New World is seen as a book written on a utopian society that robot-like humans live in. The time is 632 After Ford, and the city of a utopian England is stabilized by soma. Soma is seen as a substance taken in low dosages to induce pleasant feelings and stimulates social contact. It makes the people happy, relaxed and good-humored. (Schermer, 2007). A substance like soma can be evaluated as what makes the book, Brave New World, a utopian universe. The author sees soma as psychoactive drug that contains human civilization in what really is a dystopian society.

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

In the novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the use of “soma”, a drug similar to an opiate, is used to help control peace and the world. Since soma has been used to configurate the world, there has been no war, mental disabilities, depression or sickness throughout the people. The people are given soma every day to function throughout society without having to deal with stress, anxiety, depression or any other negative feelings, the soma blocks out “feelings” in order to properly thrive without any implications. Soma is not just only used to hide feelings and keep the people feeling youthful, but also to keep the community become more societal and unified. Soma is depended on through the society to deal with any problems, whether

In order to gain an understanding of marijuana's so called "harmful" negative effects; it should be compared to other drugs that are presently legalized in this country. In the pharmaceutical world, over-the-counter drugs are being prescribed for everything these days. Ritalin and Adderall are readily available for college students in the university health centers across the country. Kids are staying up all night studying, complaining that they can not pay attention, and are immediately referred to the prescription drugs which in many cases they do not even need. Along with the prescription drug problem in our nation, we have a serious issue concerning alcohol and tobacco. Alcoholism is killing people daily with liver malfunctions

Marijuana does have side effects. Your body and mind be relaxed to the point that you can be in your own world. It can cause a person to be paranoid and temporary loss of memory. Marijuana can also have hyperphagia, which is excessive hunger. Medical marijuana can make a person lazy. Medical marijuana can help people with insomnia because it can help a person sleep. Marijuana can make a person be alert and in some people, marijuana can help a person function and think things clearer like dealing with psychological problems depending on the person.

Marijuana has been deeply studied in the past few decades and has shown scientist many things that weren’t evident before. Marijuana has been linked to many health issues good and bad. It has shown to reduce stress and anxiety, help with headaches, lower blood pressure and one of the most evident and positive health affects is that it has been shown in many studies to stop and even kill cancer cells in the body. There are however negative effects that have been looked into and studied by scientist. These include, blocking memory formation, psychosis, and an increased risk of depression while using marijuana regularly. Not everything revolving around marijuana is a “health issue” though, the biggest reason that people use marijuana today is because it simply makes people feel good. That is a positive effect.

In Brave New World, the drug soma makes people feel happy by destroying any unhappiness and emotions. There is no pain or sickness in the world state. Whenever anyone feels discomfort, they take in some soma pills. These drugs manipulate with their feelings and emotions so they can avoid their true feelings. A drug like soma shouldn’t be developed and legalized in the United States because people will be very dependent on these chemically engineered drug to feel happiness that they will not survive without the drug.

In a story based around a dystopian society where everyone is happy, it becomes difficult to separate the good from the bad. The characters making light of serious catastrophes, such as an earthquake, makes it even harder for me, as the reader, to follow. Thankfully, the substance known as soma is a hole in this impenetrable defense and metaphorically opens Pandora’s Box in regards to all the issues plaguing this society. For me, this one substance symbolises all that is wrong in this “perfect” society and really ties the plot together. The constant use of phrases such as, “‘Remember one cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.’”

Soma VS. Marijuana The issue of control that was shown in the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley was dealing with the usage of Soma, a powerful calming and hallucinogenic drug without any serious side effects, that was taken by main characters Lenina and John, the element of control that was shown with the use of Soma, is that it was used as a method to escape from the real world problems and also it was a method that was praised and looked upon as something that everyone does. When connecting the usage of soma in Brave New World, a method of control that is used in our own society as a whole is the usage of medical and recreational marijuana, and the endless benefits that it has for many diseases but not only

However unlike soma, in the reservation (and in modern society), Linda used a different stimulant to make herself “happy.” She used mescal, “. . .but Linda said it ought to be called soma; only it made you feel ill afterwards” (125). This parallels to the modern stimulants of today: alcohol, smoking, drug abuse, they all are fine at the time to distract you but in some way they cause dangerous to the body that are not worth the holiday.

Brave New World was a very enjoyable book that I read in the high school and its ending was also delightful. Soma in the book was defiantly an interesting drug, but if you had read the book you would see that it had side effects and it also made people sort of dull. If such a drug existed I would probably be interested in at least trying it out, however, in the book those who took soma sort of got hooked and addicted to the drug and I feel like that is something I may not be able to prevent so my final answer would probably no to taking soma. No one should be forced to do anything that they don’t consent too and so I don’t think that everyone should be forced to take it even if it was a safe drug mainly because people will begin to slowly lose

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it” (Michael Jordan). In Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, citizens attempt to escape from their problems. It is a dystopian novel which display individuals attempting to escape from their problems. The novel is about a world where humans are controlled by scientist and are genetically bred to act in a certain way. In this world citizens are provided a drug called Soma, which helps them forget about their problems. What they do not realize is that the drug is just an illusion to escape from reality instead of facing issues that life brings. Huxley uses soma as a symbol for other drugs in

“The plant, or the intoxicating juice of the plant, used in ancient Indian religious ceremonies. Inevitably, given the Indian tradition, the plant and its juice were personified as a god, Soma” (SOMA). In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Soma is a huge symbol used throughout the story that shapes the characters and the work as a whole.