Individuality and personality are important and shapes the world today. In the past being different was looked down upon and not accepted, but today everyone strives to be different. In Huxley’s dystopia the controllers of the society do everything they can to make sure that nobody is different and that no one really has their own personality. Throughout the book it is shown how individuality is not accepted in the society they live in. Throughout the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley shows how personality will disappear by providing an insight to the brainwashed minds of the characters.
Analysis:
The first way Huxley depicts how personality is going to disappear is through making test tube babies. In the book, they make all of …show more content…
Soma takes away any conflict that might occur which have not been prevented from the society. Conflict that may include stress, pain, guilt, rejection, and humiliation. One way the author shows soma is a fix all kind of drug is when Lenina takes her 18-hour holiday. “Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday.” (Huxley 140). She takes a soma holiday to shield herself from the problems she has in her society. Taking a drug to fix and avoid problems takes away one’s personality. Everybody has heard the saying that hard times or problems are what defines a person and the society takes away the problems so how are the people supposed to be different from each …show more content…
The way people see individualism today is very weird considering how it was seen before. “Individualism emerged at a time when being a brick in a wall was the only socially accepted norm. Being different and thinking differently was abnormal, undesirable.” ("Society lacks true individuality," 2012). Before individualism was seen as a bad concept and it was weird if someone tried to stand out. However, today everyone is the opposite people post on social media to stand out from everybody else. People now show personality through everything they have, such as, hair, clothes, cars, social
Analysis:
The first way Huxley depicts how personality is going to disappear is through making test tube babies. In the book, they make all of …show more content…
Soma takes away any conflict that might occur which have not been prevented from the society. Conflict that may include stress, pain, guilt, rejection, and humiliation. One way the author shows soma is a fix all kind of drug is when Lenina takes her 18-hour holiday. “Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday.” (Huxley 140). She takes a soma holiday to shield herself from the problems she has in her society. Taking a drug to fix and avoid problems takes away one’s personality. Everybody has heard the saying that hard times or problems are what defines a person and the society takes away the problems so how are the people supposed to be different from each …show more content…
The way people see individualism today is very weird considering how it was seen before. “Individualism emerged at a time when being a brick in a wall was the only socially accepted norm. Being different and thinking differently was abnormal, undesirable.” ("Society lacks true individuality," 2012). Before individualism was seen as a bad concept and it was weird if someone tried to stand out. However, today everyone is the opposite people post on social media to stand out from everybody else. People now show personality through everything they have, such as, hair, clothes, cars, social