Mccarthyism In Brave New World

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The first similarity between the brave new world’s society and today’s society is that there is a way to create false happiness by removing pain and sorrow. In Brave New World, Huxley created a pill called soma that makes everyone happy all the time. In today’s society, everyone has a way to cope with pain and sorrow, for instance some people use technology, or consume drugs or alcohol to create false happiness. These coping mechanisms are similar to soma because they take the pain and sorrow away and allow the person to be happy for a short period of time. Soma is a more permanent solution to eliminating unhappiness, which is just a little more advanced than drugs, alcohol and technology. Mustapha Mond describes soma to John by saying, “‘And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts’” (Huxley). …show more content…

Also, in Brave New World, Huxley compares soma to art when John is asking Mustapha Mond as to why there is no art or anything to make people actually happy, just soma to make them fake happy, Mond says “‘that’s the price we have to pay for stability’” (Huxley 226). Mond is saying that in order to be stable everyone needs to be happy all the time and the only way to make them happy all the time is with soma, not art of books or anything else. Huxley created soma to force us to compare it to our everyday coping mechanisms for pain and suffering. By realizing how similar soma is to technology or drugs or alcohol, we are being cautioned by

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