Aldous Huxley s Brave New World - 1038 Words

Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, portrays a World State that has made consumption one of its centerpieces. Economic stability is essential to the effectiveness of the World State. They are brainwashed by advertisements and organizations that make them feel as though they are free. The people within the World State continuously consume because of the conditioning they obtained when they were younger. They are educated that when an object or good is in need of fixing, they must get rid of it. By not possessing the latest and greatest good, the people within the World State are looked less upon and is in the lower class. In this new society, emotions, religion, and culture are forfeited for social stability. The reason for which†¦show more content†¦He realized and sees the emptiness that comes with consumerism and instead of viewing this World as a utopia, he pleads for the right to suffer his unhappiness. He begs, â€Å"I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I wasn’t freedom, I want goodness, I was sin.† (pg. 240). In this quote John is showing that bad things can result to good things. In Johns opinion, the â€Å"happiness† he sees in the Brave New World is fake. In addition, every chance he gets he avoids soma because he knows that not no drug can make him truly happy. Soma takes a huge participation in the happiness of the citizens in the World State. The nearly widespread use of this drug is perhaps the utmost pervasive instance of such deliberate self-delusion. Soma blurs the realities of the present and exchanges them with happy hallucinations. Therefore, it is an implement for endorsing social stability. Soma hides everyone’s true emotions. Happiness is temporarily there, but it’s when the drugs wear off that the citizens crave more because their actual thoughts scare them. If these citizens were truly happy they would not have to continuously take this drug. So ma is the key to escape from real emotions. Mustapha Mond mentions that, â€Å"Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.† (pg.238). This is a conversation between Mustapha and John; Mustapha is attempting to persuade John that soma resolves one of humankind’s eldest difficulties. It allows a way