Brave New World Critique
Imagine living in a world where drugs are part of your everyday life. In a Brave New Word, 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 in. By writing of 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 utopia
John experienced both worlds; however he chose the world where there are feelings and emotions. This is what Huxley is talks about; that a perfect drug would take away all things that we find pleasure in. It seems to me, all our problems would be completely solved, earth would become paradise and life would become a utopia. This differs in our world because only certain people are using drugs. One of the reasons Huxley wrote a Brave New World is to awaken the world to the possible directions that we might be heading towards. If a drug such as soma was introduced into our world, the danger is we might become a world without emotions and feelings. Other feelings are necessary to know what happiness is. He shows us through his actions that a world without feelings is not worth living in. He opens our eyes to the direction that we might be heading which is towards a drug-infested world. John "the Savage" was raised in a society somewhat similar to ours. He is later brought into Huxley's utopian world. Huxley's drug-infested world might have seemed like a utopia, but if you inspected it carefully, you would realize that the people in Huxley's world are actually finding a false happiness through drugs because they do not know what true happiness is. -2-Huxley expresses his view on drugs through Brave New World. This however results in the people having no real emotions or feelings.
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