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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vast differences in societies got many thinking about the faults that lie within a society. One of the biggest faults that was discovered was the use of classes and the unequal distribution of power that ensued. In the dystopian societies of‚ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell‚ we see clear faults through the oppression of the lower class by the upper classes use of materialism‚ instillation of society over self‚ and exploitation. Humans can only focus on one thing at a time‚
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Brave New World Essay The concept of freedom is always changing and is often open to interpretation. What‚ exactly‚ is freedom? and why is it so important that we be free? In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley leaves the reader in continuous suspense over which character is truly free or has freedom. The citizens of the World State do not possess any notion of freedom‚ they are unable to control the way they think
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In Brave New World Aldous Huxley wrote about many issues in his time period. Some of these issues still face us today. Examples of this would be the role of women in society‚ the use of soma‚ and conditioning. Aldous Huxley did not fully explain what soma was but we can infer that it was some sort of drug used to make people happy. Aldous Huxley wrote about many topics that still face this this world today even if it is unnoticed. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley gave many clues throughout
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1. Mother‚ monogamy‚ romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love‚ my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily‚ didn’t allow them to be sane‚ virtuous‚ happy. What with mothers and lovers‚ what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey‚ what with the temptations and the lonely remorses‚ what with all the diseases and the endless isolating
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throw it away. This is a sarcastic comment on materialism‚ principally the wealthy; don’t waste energy to fixed things and just simply throw things away. The society wants continuous grow of consumers. So‚ people need to throw away materials to get new materials rather than fixing old ones. So this is the use of propaganda to boost citizens to do that. Every person repeatedly hears this through the process of sleep teaching starting at an early age. The phrase is continuously embedded so Depp inside
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The citizens of Brave New World are conditioned to a lot of subjects at a young age. This includes being comfortable with sexual activity‚ knowing their social caste place‚ and engaging in the use of soma when feeling sadness. While I do believe conditioning in today’s society shares similar views as of that in Brave New World‚ I do not think we are close to that extremity of conditioning. I believe the main difference between conditioning in Brave New World and today’s society is that condition
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is a process whereby one hears a recording during the period of time when he/she is asleep and is able to repeat it word by word‚ as though memorised‚ the next day‚ without having to actually be conscious or awake while listening to it. In Brave New World‚ it is also described as ‘sleep-teaching’‚ and is focused on drilling moral values into the children’s minds. “You can’t learn a science unless you know what it’s all about‚” thus hypnopaedia is not used on intellectual education in this community
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the concept of science being a way of life rather than an interest and where individuality‚ love and affection is frowned upon. The society mentioned in this book is “World State” and the people live by the motto “Community. Identity. Stability.” which suggests that the population depend on factories and science labs to create new life and use for employment. The infrastructure in the area is modern and similar to what we have today which is suggested by the line “A squat grey building of only thirty-four
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were three main colonial empires in the New World; the British‚ French‚ and Spanish empires. They had various differences in societal‚ economic‚ political‚ and religious outlooks. At the start of the seventeenth century the only colonial outpost on the North America mainland was controlled by Spain. Soon‚ other colonial empires‚ like the British and French became to rise. The Spanish settled mostly in the western and Southern part of the modern day‚ New Mexico‚ Texas‚ and California. Spanish conquest
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