Soma

John the Savage’s character poses a sudden contrast. John, a societal anomaly who was actually born from a woman instead of a test tube, finds joy among pages of Shakespeare while adamantly rejecting the World State’s ideals of pleasure from sex and soma.…

Why would a society suppress and disable its citizens from having a choice? In Aldous Huxley’s science fiction novel, Brave New World, the government regulates how civilization functions by controlling every aspect of it. All of their abilities and personality traits are either decided before birth or conditioned into them during youth; they do not have the right to decide their fate. Huxley does not give the citizens in Brave New World the ability to choose in order to ridicule the restricted…

treated equal and fair. People shouldn’t come out of machines and then be told what they like and don’t like, what they do and not do. That the people should be able to choose the things they want and have emotions to the bad things that happen to them. Soma should be banned and shouldn’t be a solution to when things tough. John wants to learn new things and not be judged off of it, but he can’t. For that reason John cuts the line to his life, to be relieved of the corruption that everyone has…

SOMA begins in Toronto, Canada in the year 2015, average person Simon Jared has just signed up to be part of a test where his brain will be scanned and stored as an effort to allow human consciousness to be stored. All is going according to plan until Simon…

It is a beautiful, fair, and dazzling morning. The artificial sun shines softly on the metallic, dense city benches that hover ever so slightly. A pair of identical female twins dressed in light gray, fashionable jumpsuits hastily make their way to a lonesome bench, and swiftly take a seat. The winsome twin to the far right wiggles her perfectly sloped nose, and begins to repeat the phrase, "Everyone belongs to everyone else..." This is what a dystopia may represent; repetition, repetition,…

Power is like a knife. A knife in proper hands can create pieces of culinary art, however, a knife in cruel hands only creates destruction. Power is misused in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William Shakespeare’s Richard III and both literary works demonstrate the same consequences. Power destroys morality within the abuser and society. This exploitation of power will also lead to discontentment among the people. Maltreated power will lead to the manipulation of a person’s actions,…

As Lenina and Henry listen to Calvin Stopes and his sixteen sexophonists at the Westminster Abbey Cabaret, “Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world-the warm, richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma- holiday”( Huxley 77). This is important because soma is a drug that makes a person be happy for a period of time. It sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from realizing that there is actually something very wrong. This is similar to modern society because…

realization that he doesn’t fit in with everyone and his sense of morality and belonging is dampened because of this. This attitude of alienation can also be traced to John’s life living in the city. Bernard Marx says “ The Savage refuses to take the soma, and seems much distressed because the woman Linda, his m------, remains permanently on holiday. It is worthy of note that, in spite of his m-------’s senility and the extreme repulsiveness of her appearance, the Savage frequently goes to see…

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is considered one of the greatest literary works of all time. In fact, it is considered by modern library the fifth best book of the 20th century. It is a story of how technological marvels make humanity lose sight of what really matters. Aldous Huxley loved to criticize rapid progress, not wanting people to lose ethical values like the society in the book. Huxley uses allusions to great works of literature and famous people to give full impact to his criticisms.…

instant pleasure, but that don’t involve love, sacrifice, or service. The government also tries to teach that sorrow should never be experienced and instead tries to give a false sense of happiness by means of a chemical answer in the form of the drug Soma. Each of these false suggestions from Brave New World can be refuted, thus showing that true happiness is a do­it­yourself project. In Brave New World, society believes that happiness can be obtained through total stability. While it is…