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The Use of Soma In Brave New World
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The Use of Soma In Brave New World
"Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity."
"Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapour into the air."
"I shall stop the distribution unless I have good behaviour."
Conclusion
1. Deconstruction of Skit
2. Soma within the plot
3. Contribution to theme
4. It's development of the text
The Text
- Remedy vs. Weapon
-"Give up" Mechanism
- Ensures Progression
Soma
The Capability of Technology to Control Society
Incapability of society to control Science
Body
- The attempt to create a new body
- To remove the body's natural ability
Happiness
- It provided happiness and nothing else
- Eliminated the need for guns
- Replaced Religion
- What is soma?
- How was it used?
- Why is it essential?
Theme
Maintain Order
- Citizens were dependent
- Removes thoughts of displeasure
- Enforce the grey Happiness
Further Evidence
Emphasizes the need to suppress the strong.
Freewill threatens stability
Soma was a part of them!
"Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided"
"Oh, I wish I had my soma."
"What I had to suffer - and not a gramme of soma to be had."
Deconstruction of the Skit
Resistance
Questioning Reality
- Consists of questions
- Her sense of solus
"How is that even possible?"
"Why would someone do that?
"What did I feel exactly?"
- Her conditioning fights against her
“… delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..”
Conformity
- She takes soma
- "Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am."
- She quickly forget the problems that surround her
Introduction
Content: 50 kilograms of Soma
Production Date: 632 A.F
Expiration Date: 634 A.F
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