Alexis Alexander

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This story Brave New World was like nothing I’ve ever read before very unusual and different, like children being born to dislike and like certain things. Starting to read this book was very idiotic. My whole prospective about this book changed I didn’t think it would turn out the way it did. This story was very different from all books that I have read. In some ways we can compare some of the things read in this novel to some stuff that happens in life today. The start of this world children being born without others giving birth to them the eggs are instead fertilized, then undergoing a Bokanovsky, the children are basically being cloned. In the process of them being born they are made to dislike and like things no questions asked their living in a dictatorship. I feel like it’s not fair that they can’t grow up to like and not like what they want, but have to be told in a way. To me they are taking away the freedom of the people they can’t think or really do anything for themselves the society the way of life in this book is crazy. We began to come across another piece of the puzzle (pattern) this society/world is addicted to a drug known as soma. Soma helps the people when their upset feeling anything but happy. In the creators mind this is a happy place a place where everyone should always be happy and or excited, but are the people in the society really happy? They’re not living a normal life like others they are controlled. Some of them really don’t like to use the soma like in the book when Lenina told Bernard to take some soma and he didn’t want to because he didn’t like the way the drug made him feel he liked the normal feeling. Another thing in this book was the sexual activity how everyone... ... middle of paper ... ...ays as powerful as you may think and it can very well mess up a world as it can fixing it. In this novel people are not really living the life they want to live there scared to be their self. They have so many emotions built up in them and they can’t express them. This was a really big problem in this novel emotions shouldn’t build up everyone deserves their own way of life they deserve to live how they want. Is this type of world people want to live in? People taking drugs to keep them happy. Like Bernard was tired of taking soma and being happy, as he said he wasn’t taking it anymore it’s a crazy world. This novel in a way could maybe teach why you should act your own way and be yourself because you’re not going to like being dictated. People brainwashing you and making you be happy all the time and not having your own emotions you may sometimes feel trapped.

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