The Effects of the World State vs. The Savage Reservation In the book, Brave New World By Aldous Huxley the way that drugs, intimacy and social conditioning differentiate for the World State and the savage reservation is very different in the way they use them .
The drug that is in the world State is Soma which makes you feel happy like any other drug and is seen as the perfect drug because there are no side effects. The way that Soma is used in the World State is that when you are feeling depressed, you take one or more small Tablet that contain the drug. One example that I found was when Lenina “swallowed six half-gramme tablets of Soma, lay down on her bed and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity.”(140). The way that they were describing the way she was after taking Soma made the reader feel what she was feeling by using imagery. The drug that the savage reservation has, is alcohol and what that they believe is that there is heaven and hell and what the World State believes that “there was a thing called heaven; But all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol” (53). If a person consumes too much, they will have a giant hangover the next day. The people of the reservation used alcohol recreationally while the
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There were so many examples of social conditioning that it was hard to find one. “But in epsilons,” said Mr Foster Very justly, “we don’t need human intelligence”(15). however that there is a group of people in the world state who don’t have or need an education because they are workers. The Savage reservation is like our world where we don’t have social conditioning for example, when John turned fifteen Mitsima says “Now I may teach you to work the clay”(134) John is being taught how to make art at fifteen rather the epsilons in the world state who don’t have an education and are forced to work at the age of