Soma For Brave New World

Soma is a means of mind control in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Soma is a drug given to the citizens of the World State to make them more euphoric and to better accept their fate as citizens in this dystopian society. The scientific basis of soma is that it is an opiate that makes the user feel happy; the user feels happy and is therefore easily manipulated. It could be argued that soma is basically alcohol; people take it to escape from reality and to feel better about themselves. Soma is significant to the novel because the government uses soma to control the World State citizens and take away their individuality, which makes them easier

Further into the book, it is revealed just how dangerous soma can be. When Linda, John the Savage’s birth mother, is given large amounts of soma, she slowly begins to die. Similarly, drugs in our society have the same effect. “Drugs are essentially poisons. The amount taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. An even larger amount poisons and can kill” (Drug Free World, 2017, para 6). Just like the drugs we know today in our society, too much soma can become dangerous and can even kill you. In Brave New World, this large intake of soma is used in a practice called “soma holidays”. This is a way to permanently escape the ugliness of the real world by slowly being killed off. Another similarity between the book and today that can be noticed is how people react when these “drugs” are taken away from them. When Linda’s character became pregnant, she was removed from the World State and was sent to live on the Reservation. This was due to the fact that natural birth was considered shameful in the World State. The Reservation is a place where people live and function the way things were before society changed. Because of this change, Linda no longer had access to soma. John recalls all the times Linda would lash out and become violent due to her lack of soma. It was as if she had become addicted, relying on it. In

Section Two gets more in depth with the characters traits and personalities, and how the characters feels towards the world state and the drug soma. Lenina asked Bernard to come to a wrestling match “In the end she persuaded him,much against his will, to fly over to Amsterdam to see the Semi-Demi-finals of the Women's Heavyweight Wrestling Championship” (Huxley 89). He is acting very sad and just uninterested for the entire day and while they are on there on there trip back Lenina refuses to take any soma. While he is still with Lenina he goes to a channel of water and begins to fly over it with the helicopter, and she repeatedly asked him to take her away from water then a he tells her that the silence of the running water and peace makes

However unlike soma, in the reservation (and in modern society), Linda used a different stimulant to make herself “happy.” She used mescal, “. . .but Linda said it ought to be called soma; only it made you feel ill afterwards” (125). This parallels to the modern stimulants of today: alcohol, smoking, drug abuse, they all are fine at the time to distract you but in some way they cause dangerous to the body that are not worth the holiday.

When reading the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, it is unmistakably evident that the use of stimulants (soma) is the leading source of the society’s happiness. Drugs and medicine are used in both societies in many comparable and contrasting ways. Our “soma” takes a different form than it does in Brave New World, but a lot of the results are the same.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World the use of soma clouds peoples ability to experience natural human emotions. It deprives people from understanding who they are as a human being and what they value. The drug is used as a hallucinogen and an antidepressant. Soma was designed for people to consume it when they got into tough situations or just needed a quick “holiday” away from reality. Even Bernard, who was once against the use of soma, began taking it and acting just like everyone else.

In Brave New World, the drug soma makes people feel happy by destroying any unhappiness and emotions. There is no pain or sickness in the world state. Whenever anyone feels discomfort, they take in some soma pills. These drugs manipulate with their feelings and emotions so they can avoid their true feelings. A drug like soma shouldn’t be developed and legalized in the United States because people will be very dependent on these chemically engineered drug to feel happiness that they will not survive without the drug.

Mustapha Mond, one of the most powerful World Controllers states that, “Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug” (53) . . . “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology” (54). The government produces the Soma and gives it to the community members to consume, and if the people choose not to consume the drug they will be labeled disobedient. The government

Soma is “the drug sponsored by the state to reduce or eliminate feelings of unhappiness” (Huxley 23). If a drug like Soma were to be created in today’s world it replace all the drugs in the world because there is no side effects. The number of Americans abusing prescription drugs has almost doubled from 7.8 million in 1992 to 15.1 million in 2003 (The Washington Times, 2005), where soma is used worldwide in Brave new world. The drug Soma in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, could easily be described as a modernized prescription drug.

Mathew Belote Mrs. Lauer 2nd Hour Power of Language 2 March 2016 Title In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, the government tries to prevent its people from speaking freely and thinking by giving them soma, a drug that is available for them at any time of the day whenever they want it. Wouldn’t it be just as easy for our government to give us as citizens access to drugs to manipulate us and control us in our society? Could this prevent people from acting out, or future development in technology

The novel Brave New World uses soma as a symbol for power and control over citizen’s emotions. Aldous Huxley, the author of the novel uses symbolism to show soma helps user receive a quick fix for their problems and the consequences that comes with the drug. Everyone has their own obstacles to face, some may be harder than others. We cannot experience all the good things in life without some of the bad. Taking drugs and alcohol to escape from problems is not the solution. They might make you feel blissful for a while but sooner or later you will have to face those issue that you were once running away

In the World State everything is not as perfect as it seems. Society is being conditioned to make a perfect world. Hypnopaedia is part of their system to make everyone believe that they are really content. Everybody is not happy in the World State because the system is not functioning properly.

The future of the world is a place of thriving commerce and stability. Safety and happiness are at an all-time high, and no one suffers from depression or any other mental disorders. There are no more wars, as peace and harmony spread to almost every corner of the world. There is no sickness, and people are predestined to be happy and content in their social class. But if anything wrong accidentally occurs, there is a simple solution to the problem, which is soma. The use of soma totally shapes and controls the utopian society described in Huxley's novel Brave New World as well as symbolize Huxley's society as a whole. This pleasure drug is the answer to all of

Aldous Huxley in his text Brave New World shows us the lives of a Utopian society being constructed as happy, productive and compliant citizens. Inequality is inevitable in any social class structure. The poor people struggle to get by while the rich are not affected by economic changes. In Brave New World, sacrifices imposed by the Alphas and Betas holding the power such that the lower castes were denied individual self-determination, self-expression and individuality. Huxley states “Every one works for every one else.

The effects of soma are very “drug-like”. Soma is often used by the government to control or condition the members of Brave New World.The use of soma or drugs in Brave New World is different than today and the past’s usage of drugs. During the 1930s, substance abuse and addiction began to rise. In World War II, amphetamines were widely distributed to soldiers to fight fatigue and improve their mood and endurance. Marijuana and a large wave of opiate addiction began to rise greatly. Today, marijuana is the most common illicit drug used.An estimated $193 billion are spent on illicit drugs today. Like today, people during the 1930s used these drugs as “feel good” drugs. Substance abuse and addiction is still a rising problem in today's