Soma

they are truly happy with their lives. Bernard further denounces his society by saying, “I’d rather be myself,” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” (Huxley 89). This is Bernard’s reaction to Lenina’s suggestion to taking soma. Soma is “the perfect drug” engineered by the World State so whenever you’re feeling down you can take it and feel better.…

prohibited. The other three classes: Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, do the manual labor of society. With everyone taking Soma, every person is happy in their own social class and gleefully accepts their fate. Every person has a pre-determined role in society that is seen as important in its own way. In BNW, having everyone self-contained in a social class is widely accepted because of Soma, but…

The government is simply an intricate system used to control the people in a society. This is clearly evident in the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. This book is a dystopian novel that focuses on the direction the world is headed in. Set in the year 2540, Huxley predicts that technological advancements will be used to create a consumeristic, obedient, and ideal society of people with complete harmony. In his novel, Huxley warns of the dangers of a government who controls all aspects of…

The individualism of a person is defined within his/her social class. In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a utopian society that is constructed within social classes that gives an individual all the power or none at all. Huxley then presents the theory of Marxism, where the class struggle is nothing less, but the backbone of an individual’s social status and where they stand in society. Huxley’s text clearly is based on the realism of social class structure and ideology where the…

This is exemplified by the use of soma, a drug that takes the user to a different world. Mustapha Mond, one of the ten World Controllers of the society describes soma as “"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant...All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects...Stability was practically assured” (Huxley 53-54). The users of this drug are put in a state where they are away from reality; they are completely unaware what is going on around them. This is significant…

are exiled to an island where the only other person is a native named Caliban. Prospero takes control of the island and raises Caliban as a slave with an intent to civilize him. When liquor is introduced to Caliban, the liquor becomes his “God,” like soma is to those in the New World. Caliban resents Prospero for taking his home from him, but Prospero sees it as dumb and points to it as his bestial nature, which makes him treat Caliban even more harshly. Caliban is displaced in every possible…

Julie Harper Professor Tiffany Soma Political Science 101 November 15, 2017 Current Event: Obama’s Release of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners On President Obama’s third day in office he ordered, “The detention facilities at Guantanamo to be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order” (Rath). This event caused a mix of emotions and opinions among United States citizens, which would be case in all of former President Obama’s orders surrounding Guantanamo Bay…

defines religion as “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions,” meaning religion is what keeps the masses at bliss and ignorance as the citizens in Brave New World are in with soma and sex, which is why it is also referred to as the “Opium of the people” (Marx). However, in Brave New World, drug use and sex occur religiously because the thought of another higher power is seen as a form of individuality. Although religion…

Passage: ‘I was given the choice: to be sent to an island, where I could have got on with my pure science, or to be taken on to the Controllers' Council with the prospect of succeeding in due course to an actual Controllership. I chose this and let the science go." After a little silence, 'Sometimes,' he added, 'I rather regret the science. Happiness is a hard master–particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.'…

most of them combined. Due to the fact that all of the social classes of the World State have been conditioned to learn and behave different ways, they have the inability to possess some information and knowledge that John has. John also knows that soma is just a method of crowd control. John tries to tell the citizens what he knows, but because everyone is so conditioned, they refuse to listen to him. Mustapha Mond’s response to John’s actions of rebellion in the name of liberty goes as…