Is the United States using drugs like tobacco and alcohol to control us? To distract us? And is that what is happening in the novel “Brave New World” too, but using the drug soma? The novel “Brave New World” they have happiness in a pill form but it does not have any kind of symptoms after like alcohol and tobacco. Soma is a drug they use to create happiness, or that’s what they think because they are taught at an early age. They are taught to dislike poetry, books, T.V and other things they keep us content today in this world. They use the drug soma to keep them happy 24/7 and smiling. In the book there is a part where they say “ There is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for half a holiday, a gramme for the weekend, two grammes
