Theme Of Drugs In Brave New World

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Monica Morado Mr. Russell English 4 12 October 2008 Drugs are Reality The book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a twisted fantasy of the future created by Huxely himself. In the book, Huxley uses many different themes to help describe and show the different meanings of technology, individualism, and happiness of the society in Brave New World. One theme used was the dependency of drugs. The State sets to provide all the drugs the citizens can possibly need. Through out the book, a character named Lenina Crowne shows how much she depends on drugs to get rid of any emotions she feels due to a conflict. Lenina faced many conflicts with a character in the book named Bernard Marx. On one of their dates, Bernard stops the helicopter…show more content…
This new and different discovery was weird for them to see because in their community they do not age. Lenina and Bernard also watched a community celebration that involved a man whipping himself. Lenina, so horrified from what she saw, reached into her pocket to use some soma but realized that she left it at the rest-house. She is so confused and terrified that Lenina starts to panic. “Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided” (111). For Lenina to see woman breast feeding their babies and families gathered around to watch, it just made her more disgusted. In the State Lenina lives in, families and emotions like love and relationships are prohibited and prevented. In order for Lenina to be happy she depends on her soma to help her get her through the day without any emotions that will give her pain and sorrow. However, because she forgot her soma, she had to suffer through the ceremony and all the horrible thoughts that came to her…show more content…
“As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma” (140). From all the blood, whipping, and torture she saw at the celebration, Lenina started to endured some sad emotions. In order to rejuvenate herself, she went on a soma-holiday. Lenina was so confused with this different celebration because she never thought that there was a place so different from the conditioning and rules that she obeys back in London. The State purposely sets up society to where everyone is always busy with something and so that the citizens are never alone or sidetracked from what they were occupied with. The use of drugs shows that the citizens and Lenina take soma for the immediate satisfaction that they
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