Of course, via soma, the citizens are enslaved by happiness.
"A gramme is better than a damn," said Lenina mechanically from behind her hands. It also distracts them from realizing what is happening in their society - a society where even the privileged members of the World State are enslaved. The "deep, resonant voice" of Mustapha Mond in the novel describes soma as "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." As part of the government, he knows soma is a very effective way of controlling its population. Huxley also had a kind of reassessment of his book in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and in Island (1962), which is his final novel. My own thoughts about the novel have changed since I read it in high school and taught it. The novel is usually seen as a prediction of "what was to come" and often lumped in with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Huxley anticipates more than predicts a number of developments in areas such as reproductive technology, sleep-learning, and psychological manipulation. The story is set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.-"After Ford"-in the book). It has been a popular novel in high school and college literature classes for more than 50 years. “Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am."īrave New World is a 1932 dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley. But soma is more real than I, and probably many other readers, had assumed.
Soma is used to shape and control the future society in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. When I first encountered the word "soma," it was in fiction.
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