Soma In Brave New World

Soma The use of the drug soma in Brave New World is very influential to the story line and the world that the story is based on. Soma in the New World is equivalent to the processed food, alcohol and drugs in our world today. The drug is used as a symbol of instant gratification to control the populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society. We can easily see the instant gratification that taking the drug provides. It puts the consumer in a dream-like state, from which they envision the world through a water-like barrier. This barrier blocks out any form of sadness, or anxiety, or emotion other than elatedness. The drug is used to bring the populace to a controlled, unaggressive, unintelligent …show more content…
The people are bred in test tubes in order to be exactly the same in every sense of the word. Any and all social standards that we have today have been disposed of. Any sense of self or intellectual thought a person may have is discouraged and, if the person begins voicing these thoughts, crushed into pieces. The dream state that the drug induces helps the government to control the populace and not receive any inquiries as to the humaneness or necessity of the procedures that the government is performing. Even the supposed higher up officials have no idea what is actually occurring in their own bodies and minds, they simply take the drug like a good little robot and don't ask …show more content…
Humans are no longer capable of thinking for themselves. We are so dependent on others think for us. We listen to our doctors and take the poisons that they prescribe without questions, we take whatever new technology is dangled in front of our faces by marketing companies like cheese on a trap, we put our life in the hands of supposedly good people who would never hurt us and then don't stop to realize that that may not be the best decision for out own well beings. The human species now is terrifyingly like that of the human species seen in Brave New World. We don't have humans raised in test tubes and facilities yet but we have the fear of the unknown, we have the unconscious, sheep-like qualities of simply doing what we're told is right by people who aren't necessarily trustworthy because they're so concerned with power, we have the drugs that make us agreeable, and unintelligent, and unquestioning. The human race is on the way to becoming the soma-induced people that are exhibited in Brave New