Soma In Brave New World

It's hard to believe in a life that isn’t one's own. People can’t picture a world without money or food. The ideas are too disturbing or far-fetched. However, some of these experiences can feel close to home. In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, some are too far-fetched like being born in labs, others feel close to home, like Soma and some of the events feel too disturbing like the orgy porgy.
Some of the main aspects of the book are far-fetched, like the idea of children being born in a lab. They make “ninety-six identical twins” who are “working ninety-six identical machines” (7). The society found the perfect human and make them over and over. Through time they make children fear “ books and flowers”(22). Children are taught to hate them because society doesn’t want them to be distracted ad learn something. The government doesn’t want that to happen and they condition the children to be the best humans one can be.

The characters of Brave New World use soma to make themselves feel happy and they take “a gramme of Soma” to feel normal (60). People will just say relax and take some soma, which is similar to the exchange of drugs. People pull out drugs and pressure to take them. People might try to refuse the drug, like Bernard refused soma, but in the end people take the drug because they are pressure. People are told how amazing they will feel if they take drugs, their “ eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles”(81). Soma has similar symptoms to other drugs. Soma makes people feel happy and they forget their