As man has progressed through the years, societies have tried to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness' are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But after reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, one comes to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human being really craves.
             Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World out of fear of society's apparent lack of morals and corrupt behavior during the early 1900's. Huxley believed that the future was doomed to a non-individualistic, conformist society, a society void of the family unit, religion and human emotions. Throughout the book, Huxley predicts many events for the future, most of which concentrate on an immoral society. The most important of these predictions include greater sexual freedom, brain-washing/sleep-teaching, the use of artificially pleasing drugs.
             Huxley's future is created largely by perverted sexual freedoms, which in turn cause corrupt individuals, entirely lacking ethics and morals. It is a common belief that each time medicine reduces the risk of unwanted diseases and pregnancies, society, on the whole, will increase its sexual activity. Huxley's prediction of promiscuity is based on a common theory of sexuality: As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to increase.
             Aldous Huxley's civilization is structured around the use of a pleasure-inducing drug called "soma". Soma is a means of drowning one's sorrows to make them feel better and to create a positive feeling towards those who supply such happiness. Such a drug, therefore, becomes the perfect tool of the dictator, as it creates a more submissive and conformist society, a society that is easier to control. Soma becomes the perfect escape from reality, because its use is public, thus, allowing for the happiness to be shared among friends for an all around greater high. Soma is used in Brave New World the way
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