They just need to drink soma and choose merriment over truth. Alcohol in Our Society Huxley’s View in Relation to Brave New World. Sure, human beings are indoctrinated to behave in one way only according to their caste, and the whole State is a system founded on production and consumption, fueled by the consumerist tendencies of its inhabitants yet, they are happy. His demise does, indirectly, prove Mustapha Mond’s point, as, by eliminating “mother, monogamy, and romance” alongside “feeling strongly,” the World State succeeded in creating a stable society where everybody was superficially happy. Eventually, abiding by those feelings causes him to try to purify himself with self-flagellation, which, in an unfortunate turn of events, leads to his madness and suicide. The novel is a dark play off the idea of a utopian society, in which humans are. Aldous Huxley plays off this idea through the creation of soma in his novel, Brave New World. “Mother, monogamy, and romance” are concepts that are reviled in the World State, as is the whole idea of “feeling strongly” however, for John, these are core values, as he is devoted to his mother, and strives for monogamy and romance while still experiencing feelings unfiltered by soma. In the words of Bangambiki Habyarimana, It’s better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony. In Chapter 3, Mustapha Mond explains the history of the World State to a group of boys touring the Hatchery. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?" (Chapter 3) Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. 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 pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly.
In the novel Huxley explains how Linda’s return to England from the savage reservation involves her over dosing on soma after the doctor clearly mentions she will die within a month if she decides to take a soma holiday. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. Clearly, in Brave New World government officials nor caste members concern themselves with the dangers they expose themselves to. Compare and contrast the use of soma in Brave New World with the use of the drug like Prozac in our world. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. T o t a l i t a r i a n BNW is a benevolent dictatorship - or at least a benevolent oligarchy, for at its pinnacle there are ten world-controllers. This is one reason why they are so unrealistic. High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the wild jet. Brave New World-based soma-scenarios, by contrast, are highly conceivable.
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