Emotions are a fundamental element of humanism. Humans have sex for reproduction purposes as well as for physical pleasure but pleasure is not received unless emotions are present. Soma is portrayed in Brave New World as a drug that cheapens the meaning of Sexual pleasure (Huxley). The more Soma that the people of Brave New World take the more that they forget about the emotions that they are supposed to have. All individuals are different, one is not able to create a world of the same characteristics in every one person that one meets; granted Mr. Huxley creates a new social caste system for separation, this does not separate the individuals from each other. Although the human anatomy sets men and women apart from each other every one in
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From the beginning of Huxley’s Brave New World, Fanny had tried to explain to Lenina that she was letting her emotions get the best of her and to be an outsider in this society was frowned upon. It was forced upon the people of this society that emotions were not to be present in their sexual lives. “The first reformers came along and offered to deliver them from those horrible emotions, they wouldn’t have anything to do with them”, emotions were considered horrible and offensive because they messed up the science of creating new life through the Bokanovsky’s Process (Huxley …show more content…
The effect of drugs on the brain is a huge cost; it takes away personality and changes one. Lenina relied on taking Soma in order to forget that she had emotions towards John; Bernard made sure that she took Soma every day even though the thought of getting rid of all emotions irritated him. Taking drugs on a regular basis makes you feel “a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea” and in Brave New World they felt this when their emotions became present (Huxley 174). “Soma does not yet exist (and will probably never exist)”, but in today’s society there are “substitutes” for the drug that was present in Brave New World; there are drugs that we as humans tell ourselves do not mess with our brains or the different ways we process emotions and other information (Huxley, “Chemical”,
From the beginning of Huxley’s Brave New World, Fanny had tried to explain to Lenina that she was letting her emotions get the best of her and to be an outsider in this society was frowned upon. It was forced upon the people of this society that emotions were not to be present in their sexual lives. “The first reformers came along and offered to deliver them from those horrible emotions, they wouldn’t have anything to do with them”, emotions were considered horrible and offensive because they messed up the science of creating new life through the Bokanovsky’s Process (Huxley …show more content…
The effect of drugs on the brain is a huge cost; it takes away personality and changes one. Lenina relied on taking Soma in order to forget that she had emotions towards John; Bernard made sure that she took Soma every day even though the thought of getting rid of all emotions irritated him. Taking drugs on a regular basis makes you feel “a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea” and in Brave New World they felt this when their emotions became present (Huxley 174). “Soma does not yet exist (and will probably never exist)”, but in today’s society there are “substitutes” for the drug that was present in Brave New World; there are drugs that we as humans tell ourselves do not mess with our brains or the different ways we process emotions and other information (Huxley, “Chemical”,