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Theme Of Drugs In Brave New World

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In Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, there were a plethora of themes he tried to focus on. Since this is taken place in a Dystopia, you can see there are many themes based off of things that seem to actually be happening in our world today, just taken at an extreme. But the one that stuck out most had to be his theme, drugs. Drugs played a very important role in this book. In this world, drugs, also known as soma, is used by everyone in the World State. It kept them calm and happy, so nobody would ever complain about the lifestyle everyone in this world is living. This could be a reference to medicine companies in this day and age forcing medication upon medication to millions of citizens, causing people to have to save more money to invest
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