What Does Soma Mean In A Brave New World Persuasive Essay

In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian phenomenon Brave New World, the resonating idea of a free will fronts the truth of enslavement through the malicious conditioning that they experience throughout their lives.

Huxley introduces the theme of through the widespread use of soma, a free drug handed out to the citizens of the World State used to make people feel “happy.” Represents how the leaders of World State use drugs to control their society through making them believe they are happy, when they really are not. Multiple characters throughout Brave New World experience this manipulation of the government but it ends up not turning out how the government expected it too. The alpha +, archetypal protagonist Bernard rebels against society's norms and

Soma is unlike the drugs that we have in our societies today, it does not have the nasty side effects and struggles that come with it like ours do. Therefore, it is harder for the characters to see the negative side of soma in a Brave New World which strengthens the power of The World State. Likewise to Lenina, John the Savage struggles and therefore ends up taking soma to help him with his feelings. But before taking the soma he had compared his views to Bernard. John the Savage views soma as social control. He often compares the soma to the World States' way of making them slaves. He therefore believes that the World State uses it as one of the many ways to control their population and let them know who ultimately has the control over their society. John the Savage has a real world view on most of the conditioning in the book. He understands what the State is trying to do to them, and does not let any of them try to control him or make him a slave in any way. “Don’t you even understand what manhood and freedom are? Rage was making him fluent;

The World State is divided into three categories of people determined by what they are conditioned when in the fertilization process, these categories are determined by colors and names, and they determine what jobs, how smart, and what kind of people they are. The society is split into five different castes that are decided before birth, Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Each of the castes are assigned to certain jobs and tasks that are determined before they are born, and they have to stick with this job their whole life. They have to perform these jobs to the best of their ability in order to maintain the ability of their supposedly perfect society. The novel explains this by saying “Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without anyone” (Huxley 130). Each caste has one job that the World State provides them that is supposed to make them happy. Lower castes get the worse jobs, and the higher up castes get the better jobs. But the society is trained to love their job and views each of their jobs as a happy thing. Evidence: “Alpha children