BRAVE NEW WORLD - Erasing Individuality Ruins Happiness
BRAVE NEW WORLD - Erasing Individuality Ruins Happiness
The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is set in the future, where government controls the people. The world in which they live is called the world state. The government control and program how the people think and act. In this society, problems are avoided by taking a drug called soma. Soma is used universally around the world state and is used to promote stability and happiness in the world state. Huxley shows how the government creates a so-called happiness but in reality takes away the individuality of the people in the world state in order to prioritize happiness.
In the world state there are caste systems of community members. Each class keeps to themselves. They work and think conformly to how they are conditioned. Each of them is put into a profession according to their caste system. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 127) is the psychological state of the society. This quote tells how the government in the brave new world tries to create a perfect world. No one perform excessive manual labor. Everyone is the same.
Throughout the story, the book shows how whenever a person of the world state had problem, they take a drug called Soma, which clouds the real world and replaces them with happy hallucination. Soma also helps promote social stability, because it controls the caste system. If one has a problem and decides to move to another class, this will make a society of chaos. Another problem with the society is that the people of the world state lack individuality. They are all conditioned by messages and artificial stimuli to respond the same way. Although all people are the same, some are made imperfectly and do have differences. These people are sent away so they don’t affect other minds.
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