Imagine living in a world where drugs are part of your everyday life. In a Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a fictional world where a perfect drug is part of typical everyday life. Huxley's world is supposed to be a world much different from the world in which we live. By writing about a drug-infested utopian world, he compares the world and drugs of his generation to his fictional world to show that in both worlds happiness is pursued through drugs. Huxley predicts through a Brave New World that our world is headed for disaster.
             People in Huxley's utopian society pursue happiness through a drug called soma. Soma is the essential tool in keeping a utopia in a Brave New World. It does so by keeping order, stability, and control. Soma is successful in doing this because of its effects. The drug has the effect of distracting people from their anger, passion, and ambition. It is made mainly in a tablet form and is taken by people in almost a "religious" fashion when it is involved in worshiping the idol and creator of their utopian world, Ford. If someone takes a certain amount, they will find themselves on a soma holiday (a long high). Scientists have perfected soma so it gives people the ultimate high.
             The people in Huxley's world pursue their happiness through drugs. This, however, results in people having no real emotions or feelings. The use of drugs blinds them from the reality of life. Since everyone uses soma, everyone is blinded from the feelings and emotions of life. This differs in our world because only certain people are using drugs. If a drug such as soma was introduced into our world, the danger is we might become a world without emotions and feelings. John "the Savage" was raised in society somewhat similar to ours. He is later brought into Huxley's utopian world. He shows us through his actions that a world without feelings is not worth living in. John experienced both worlds; however, he chose the world where ther...