Artificial Society in Brave New World
The World State requires their society to be void of emotions like love and hatred, religion, art and science, along with the conditioning of minds and the predetermination of citizens’ lives and tools like soma and V.P.S to keep conflict at bay in order to maintain the “happiest society.” They are utterly fabricating the citizens’ lives, simply providing them with a predetermined life that they are confined to. The effort required to control life and civilization has produced a downright artificial society, one in which people are born to fulfill a role for the World State and not for themselves - rendering the “happiest” society” far from perfect: completely fake.
In Brave New World, the eradication of emotions is used to yield stability in the World State – it is in their belief that the absence of emotions such as love and hate means the absence of the conflict that is their consequence. The social setting presented in this novel demonstrates the rigid and meaningless utopia that follows, as described by Mustapha Mond:
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid …show more content…
Now, you can swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears – that’s what soma is” (210).
“Christianity without tears” is an extremely important metaphor in this novel. The use of soma is yet another method of eliminating conflict, negative emotions and truths in life. This society can only be stable and happy when its citizens are drugged half the time, which renders it utterly phony. Soma is a symbol for the World State’s use of instant satisfaction of desire to keep citizens content, and their need to distract citizens from any type of negativity, which illustrates the government’s complete control over its
The World State requires their society to be void of emotions like love and hatred, religion, art and science, along with the conditioning of minds and the predetermination of citizens’ lives and tools like soma and V.P.S to keep conflict at bay in order to maintain the “happiest society.” They are utterly fabricating the citizens’ lives, simply providing them with a predetermined life that they are confined to. The effort required to control life and civilization has produced a downright artificial society, one in which people are born to fulfill a role for the World State and not for themselves - rendering the “happiest” society” far from perfect: completely fake.
In Brave New World, the eradication of emotions is used to yield stability in the World State – it is in their belief that the absence of emotions such as love and hate means the absence of the conflict that is their consequence. The social setting presented in this novel demonstrates the rigid and meaningless utopia that follows, as described by Mustapha Mond:
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid …show more content…
Now, you can swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears – that’s what soma is” (210).
“Christianity without tears” is an extremely important metaphor in this novel. The use of soma is yet another method of eliminating conflict, negative emotions and truths in life. This society can only be stable and happy when its citizens are drugged half the time, which renders it utterly phony. Soma is a symbol for the World State’s use of instant satisfaction of desire to keep citizens content, and their need to distract citizens from any type of negativity, which illustrates the government’s complete control over its