Brave New World

Brave New World vs. Reality Have you ever wondered that there was a whole other world completely different from the one we live in today? In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, there actually is metaphorically. In this world people are controlled by higher power. The way Huxley describe life in (BNW) and life in the U.S are different based on drug use, religion, and consumptions of goods and services. In Brave New World their community is greatly dependent upon soma, as in our world where prescribed drugs and drug abuse are prominent. Huxley’s view drugs in a positive way. In (BNW) he said "...there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two gramme for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon...”. In reality we say “Don’t do drugs”. Linda's addiction to soma is similar to the way people react to it in reality. Linda left the society and got pregnant and was ashamed. She knew she couldn’t come back, she was a disgrace. Drugs were like her freedom it relieved all her stress. There isn’t any kind of religion in (BNW) everything was abolished by a World State Government. In reality everyone is allowed to be whatever religion they want to. People aren’t controlled and aren’t told what religion they can or cannot be. In Brave New World the “people” aren’t treated fairly, they have to live by what other people say. They don’t have the freedom to say what they want to say or do what they want to do everything is planned out for them. In reality when you crave something you buy it and you make uses of it, but in (BNW) that doesn’t happen. In Huxley’s society nobody has a good use of any goods or products that they buy. For example, in the U.S people depend on these material things and everything is revolved around it. In (BNW) Huxley shows us that if we focus on materialism and mass-consumption it will bring our society to a major downfall. Considering life in Brave New World it is a dystopian society. There society didn’t allow humans to be their own people. In reality people have freedom are allowed to be whoever they want to be whenever they want to be it. In (BNW) their rights where limited and looking back on who would ever want to live in this society.