social ladder and to continue keeping the stability with biological and psychological drugs. Cloning is used to produce new members of society‚ conditioning is used to fix the minds and brainwash every members to think and feels in certain ways‚ and Soma; a psychological drug is used to keep the stability in place by keeping everyone happy and removing negative emotions that would potentially destabilize the social structures. The World State use these tools made available by its advance technologies
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their emotions to make the people all happy is making them ignorant to what real life is and what the people in John’s village experience. Even when the humans do experience emotion‚ it is quickly cured: “You look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma […] One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy” (60). Instead of experiencing the real emotions‚ they take drugs to wash away any negative feelings. In doing so‚ they once again are made ignorant to real life and real emotions‚ such as the feelings John’s
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and also do certain work based on their social class. Whenever they feel angry or stressed they don’t have to deal with those emotions like we do today‚ instead they have soma which is a drug that suppresses those negative emotions. There use of soma is like people in our societies use of marijuana‚ the difference is that soma is legal and marijuana is illegal otherwise they have the same essential effect. Not having the ability to feel things is like being oblivious‚ because you don’t understand
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gone extremely far when he interrupts the rationing of Soma by yelling‚ “Don’t take that horrible stuff. It’s poison‚ it’s poison.” (Huxley‚ Aldous‚ 211). During this time he then also “... pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital‚ he began throwing the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area.” (Huxley‚ Aldous‚ 213). This quote basically states the John and Helmholtz was throwing the Soma grammes out of the window causing many people to be angry
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Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself." (Huxley‚ 148) what is clearly seen as the most important is the stability of the community and nothing else. The World State has used conditioning‚ entertainment‚ soma‚ and restrictions to mold their citizens into a blinded community of living‚ but ignorant (dead of brain) people. The World State has conditioned its citizens to transform them into a group of ignorant‚ blind‚ and naive people with no self worth‚ no
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various Hindu deities‚ including Indra‚ Soma‚ Varuna and Mitra. Based on the course readings‚ as well as to my
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-When John hears the “O brave new world” being sung‚ he feels as if the words themselves “had mocked him through his misery and remorse‚ mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision!”(Huxley 143). he makes attempts to fight against the soma-enticed world he is a part of and fails‚ thus demonstrating that even an outsider’s bravery will get crushed in this “brave new world” where individuality can not exist. 2. Setting A. London London is
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constantly prevalent in our media‚ including books such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Throughout Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”‚ there is an abundance of symbolic patterns and hidden metaphors. Whether discussing the dark intentions of the drug “soma”‚ or what it truly means to be happy‚ it is impossible to become bored with the web of meaning Huxley has created. In Brave New World‚ we are introduced to the concept of originality‚
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in a laboratory. He does not eliminate drugs completely‚ instead he creates a perfect drug. Huxley saw a need for releases from society‚ but knew that the current drugs altered a person’s mind too much for them to work effectively. The open use of soma within this book shows Huxley’s ideological beliefs on drug
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the peoples’ individual freedoms‚ and makes everyone focus on what’s best for each other and the State. For example‚ as a “community”‚ they do leisure activities‚ such as special golf courses to make sure self-reflection is not happening. They take soma‚ a drug‚ and have orgies with each other. These are two of the activities they can do in this world. By restricting their individual freedom‚ the government convinces the people that this is okay. They have the orgies because
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