Dystopian Society In Brave New World

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Brave New World is a novel that suggests that a dystopian society is valuable in human life. It tells about Huxley’s “utopian” society and how it differs from an actual utopian society. In this type of society the government, or in Brave New World’s case the World State, controls every aspect of a human’s life.
Brave New World believes that there is no such thing as a natural child birth. Reproduction is not allowed, ovaries are removed from women and tampered with to condition them. We learn that a child is not “born” but created. Every embryo is created and conditioned to the government’s image and likeness, living the life the government wants them to live. “All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social
They may think that they do, but they really do not. Conditioning forces them to believe that the life their living is a good life that brings happiness. The government tries really hard to make sure everyone is happy, but John on the other hand is against the dystopian society’s beliefs. John says that they must know what it’s like to be unhappy in order to appreciate life. Beings the characters of the World State cannot experience feelings for themselves, they rely on the drug soma to feel happy.
The drug soma is taken by almost every character in Brave New World. It tends to calm a person down and distract them from the reality of life. Soma is used as a vacation to escape all types of situations and gain happiness. Soma is a “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucination” (P.53 Brave New World). It takes away all the stress and anxiety and in return gives them “happiness” and “joy”. Soma is the government’s number one way of controlling all the people of the World State. The humans are treated as slaves and are manipulated into doing everything the government may
The government aims to change the way others view certain tactics in the world. This mainly has to do with the conditioning at creation. One thing the entire World State is forced to worship is Ford. As we can turn to God and religion to deal with our problems, the World States religion is different. Religion in the World State has been replaced by technology. They substitute “Ford” for the Lord. They worship Ford just as we would worship God. “God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.” (P.234 Brave New World), Ford is a pioneer for technology and the drug soma. The Christian cross has even been changed to a “T” to represent the T-model invented by their “Lord”. Instead of voluntarily going to church they are to attend a solidarity service also known as a soma

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