ORAL PRESENTATION ABOUT SOMA IN THE BOOK BRAVE NEW WORLD the topic i will present is the theme of drugs as a requirement maintain social stability‚ as a contribution for people’s happiness and most importantly drugs related to a perfect world. In the real world‚ in our reality‚ drugs are seen as extremely dangerous and the consumers are excluded from the moral society‚ seen as outcasts that go in the wrong path or that will never achive real happiness and a right life. However‚ drugs‚ in the last
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Essay In the perfect society‚ man does not need to resort to drugs to keep society in balance. But in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ society is based on keeping everyone happy‚ and if for some reason someone becomes unhappy then there is always soma‚ the "perfect" drug. The entire society is based upon conditioned responses and predestination‚ where the individual does what is expected and does it well. The soma helps to keep the society moving‚ always working to keep production
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is interesting to note‚ before anything‚ the similarities between Brave New World and 1984. Firstly and rather obviously‚ they are both prophetic novels‚ they were both written in turbulent times‚ both suffering changes that could revert the future of the world. When 1984 was written‚ the world had just gotten out of a second war and the surprising rise of communism and their totalitarian government was frightening most of the western world. In George Orwell’s novel‚ the main concern seems to be the
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Comparison of The Red Hat with works of others I would like to compare The Red Hat with two famous soft sci-fi books that were published in last century‚ Brave New World of Aldous Huxley and 1984 of George Orwell . A very basic common place of these three books in the comparison‚ Brave New World‚ 1984‚ and The Red Hat‚ is that they are all devoted to defend humanity against potential threats from either evil ambitions of some individuals and social practices based on erroneous ideological theories
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and the free-will of mankind‚ ultimately trading off free will for temporary gratification. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World expresses this transformation from the times of the past‚ relying on emotions to govern decisions‚ to the times of the future where technology has an iron grasp on the thoughts and ideas of society. In chapter eleven‚ John has an unsettling realization about the world. Everything is repeated‚ and true individualism is lost. Naming off bokanovski group after bokanovski group
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Huxley’s novel‚ Brave New World‚ thoroughly projects a utopian society through The World State; however‚ through various characters‚ Huxley reveals how the reality of the World State is far from perfect. In this society‚ happiness is key to stability which is certainly the ultimate goal. For many years the inhabitants of The World State have established laws in order to stimulate a utopian society. Consequently‚ individuality is forbidden‚ including the freedom of being alone. The World State creates
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Brave New World or 1984? As far as it concerns the world we live in right now‚ Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision is clearly dominating. There really is overall information overload due to the always developing technologies and their need to be adopted by us. And that is a result nobody can really bring to a stop. One possible action is still there as the previous generations didn’t have any information to base their understanding about technology and its influence. In a way‚ it might become possible
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A person who is raised in a religious home is very likely to have different moral standards than to a person who was never taught a religion. The surrounding which a person is grown up in is what shapes and prompts one’s principles. In Brave New World‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ John’s surroundings shape and change the morals he grew up with in the Reservation and the ones he was prompted by in the civilized London; which shows us the theme of culture prompting morals. Since John was a child he was introduced
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In the novel‚ A Brave New World‚ the author Aldous Huxley creates a world where the people are ignorant of the truth‚ and are‚ therefore‚ in a state of bliss that they mistake as happiness. The people in the World State are in a world where they don’t know what true happiness is. The way they have lived their lives has blocked out real happiness. Through conditioning and drugging the government has kept the people of the World State ignorant to the truth. The people in the World State believe they
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The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley discusses a utopian society in which everything is "perfect". Huxley believes that a society like this will emerge in the future due to rapid development of science. Members of the society are genetically engineered and assigned a class by their intelligence. The society is truly flawless in the sense that everyone is happy with the freedoms they have. On the other hand‚ people in this society are far from perfect because of their freedoms and the way that they
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