Soma

A dystopia is a society in which feelings such as misery and oppression are common. A dystopia is an undesirable world that society has created. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopia. In Huxley’s world people are identical and made from hatched embryos. People may seem to be happy but the happiness in this world is artificial. Another example of dystopian societies are The Purge Anarchy, and The Purge Election Year by James DeMonaco. These are examples of dystopian societies…

How is one to be considered human when the emotions of feeling happy, sad, mad, or even in love, those feelings, do not exist? That feeling that overwhelms oneself with an uncontrollable amount of anger and remorse when one first hears the news that a close family member, very possibly the one that one loves most, has just passed away. How does one not feel that deep, stabbing pain in the bottom of your heart that is aching for that person to be in your life just one more day? In the counter…

The influence and boundless possibilities of technology affect most aspects of life and society. Not only are these influences visible in every-day modern society, but their potential is foreshadowed in literature such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, written in 1932. In Brave New World, Huxley presents a dystopian society that introduces many parallels to modern society, but, as a whole, does not provide a perfectly accurate depiction of our current world due to the extremity in which…

Jessalyn Nguyen Brave new world essay AP literature Period 2 In Brave New World the life of choosing a whole population over one’s ownself can be described as “barbaric” in modern times. In Brave New World John’s alienation is quite sad for us to see and read but it shapes his choices throughout the book which plays an important role in his decision making throughout the book. When Lenina and Bernard went on vacation to the island they were shocked to see how many people were poor and…

The drug provides an escape to citizens from their surroundings, and it relieves them from any depression they may or may not have. Soma can be compared to any modern day antidepressant in a similar way. According to Brendan O 'Neill, a journalist from Australia, psychiatrists are worried that antidepressants are being given out not to fight serious depression, but to “get rid of unhappiness”…

By comparing Bernard, Lenina and John it becomes clear that they all have different perspective to the society. Bernard and John hate soma and do not take them whereas Lenina deals with the soma to earn happiness and knock out from the problem and even convinces Bernard to take soma. Although Lenina decides not to cause argument and prefers to be conditioned to society, Bernard and John are both outsiders in their societies. Bernard does not feel that he fits…

purposes. John shows the underlying theme of the incompatibility of happiness and the truth, as shown by Miranda in The Tempest. The Savage can see through the seemingly joyful mask the people of the controlled world display, and knows that without soma that makes this mask alive, the entire population would collapse of distress. The drug is what keeps the people far from the truth of the immoral society that controls them. John also shows that one can have high hopes for the goodness of…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel I would never have guessed to become one of my favorites. I think this is partially due to having a very relatable main character. John, otherwise known as Savage, is a character most like a regular human being of the early 21st century. John is part of a Reservation where the people have never seen “the Other Place”. He has read all about it due to his mother, Linda, who is from the Other Place that was left at the Reservation. The main plot of the…

Civilization Strips People In the novel, Brave New World, John’s morals are shifted when he is transplanted from his savage native state of New Mexico to the civilized state of London.Once the move is made, John begins to change. He seems to become more civilized as time passes, and he also seems to fall into the practices of the World State.These new surroundings shape John’s psychological and moral traits, they re-shape his understandings of love, life and human nature, this illuminates the…

In the novel Brave New Wolrd Aldus Huxley talks about many social and political issues in his time. Alsud Huxley uses many literary elements to talk about these political and social issues and masterfully crafts them to take part in the meaning of the book as a whole.The main literary devices the author uses are satire, repetition, and imagery. The main focus of the novel Brave New World is satire to the most extreme.The entire novel, except the end, can be summed up as satire. The book begins…