Joshua Caltabilotta 11/2/2015 English 11 period 5 Brave New World Drugs and Alcohol The book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley has many types of themes to it. Drugs and alcohol would have to be one of the biggest themes throughout the book. In nearly every chapter the characters are either taking drugs or talking about drugs. Nearly everyone in this society takes drugs, but there are the few who don’t. Throughout the first couple of chapters Huxley introduces Soma. Soma is the drug that allows people to forget about what happened to them. It helps them with their conditioning process. As Huxley states throughout chapter 3 "There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol… There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality...But they used to take morphia and cocaine… Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug… Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinate." It quiets, calms, and in particular diverts a person from understanding that there's something very wrong, that thing is that the people in the Utopian Society are enslaved to the government. …show more content…
This time it is sex hormones, as stated in chapter 4 “Benito stared after him. ‘What can be the matter with the fellow?’ he wondered, and, shaking his head, decided that the story about the alcohol having been put into the poor chap's blood-surrogate must be true. ‘Touched his brain, I suppose… He put away the soma bottle, and taking out a packet of sex-hormone chewing-gum, stuffed a plug into his cheek and walked slowly away towards the hangars, ruminating.” Sex was just another thing that they did in this society, it was something that they do for fun, they have no ‘love’ for one another, they have sex then they leave. Benito assumes that Bernard's deficiencies to drugs are do to alcohol, but at the same time he freely taking his own