Dystopia Essay

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Poverty has sprung out as a big problem in the world. This hardship has become a subject that most people do not like to talk about. Poverty makes most people feel extremely sad when they see other people who struggle for money. Seeing people on the street, not able to support themselves or their families, really makes people feel grateful for the situations that they are in. A dystopian society can be explained as a dysfunctional state of a future that has a poor standard of living. For people in 2017, the most likely definition of a dystopia would focus on poverty.
If people live below the poverty line, they will not have the money or resources to support themselves. Poverty can be explained as a state of not having the ability to provide …show more content…

According to Anup Shah, a researcher for Global Issues, “almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day” (Shah). For most people, it would be super hard to survive on this little amount of money every day. People who live this low in the poverty level walk several miles just so that they can acquire basic needs such as water and food. These people also have no way to afford medical attention and will often die from a preventable cause. According to Anup Shah, “1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day)” (Shah). Children who have these poor family situations usually will die from hunger or diseases at a young age. Children who live in this type of poor environment do not have the money to go to school. Without an education, these children will have a hard time obtaining jobs when they reach adulthood. They will also have problems receiving …show more content…

In the novel, the people talk about the use of soma, which is a drug that the characters in the novel use when they feel any sort of emotion that they do not want to feel. In Brave New World, Mustapha Mond states, “and do remember that a gramme is better than a damn” (55). The people in the novel expect people to take soma whenever they feel unhappy and still do their jobs after their soma-holiday. More and more people in 2017 turn to drugs to solve their problems and make them feel better just like in the novel. Whereas drugs may make people feel better for a little while, they do not make people feel better for a long period of time. Actually, the use of drugs might have an effect that makes the people feel even worse about themselves and their problems after the drugs have worn off. Mostly they feel this way because they might end up fired from their jobs for this behavior. Also, in Brave New World, Lenina and Henry take a dose of soma before heading up to Henry’s room, “swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds” (Huxley 77). In Brave New World, all of the people feel the need to use soma, a drug that makes them completely oblivious to the world around them and

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