What Is The Dystopia In The Brave New World

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, with no real way to tell the future and how society would be today. The novel is based around a dystopia, a society that is the opposite of an utopia which is a “perfect” society according to the definition. Today’s society is far from perfect by definition. Huxley’s dystopia was supposed to mimic an almost impossible future, but with how things have changed in the past 90 years that future might not be so far away. In our futuristic world the all countries are under one government that splits ten ways. This is more similar to today’s world’s government than it may seem. There are over 150 countries in the world, all with similar yet different governments. In Brave New World the government is a “World state”, in which everyone agrees on how things should be ruled but is split up into 10 different ruling areas. They would meet and agree on how things work, somewhat similar to how state and federal governments but without the federal part. The United States is

On the topic of mind altering drugs, the way the government of the US treats drugs is vastly different than how the government in the novel treats it. In Brave New World the government encourages use of these drugs, in a way that is almost ritualistic. They treat this drug like a daily vitamin or medicine that they can take whenever they feel bad. The government even puts an amount of soma in their people’s daily food supply. Putting it that way the drug itself sounds very similar to a very legal and over the counter drug, Ibuprofen. Weed, in the case of today’s society, is not as accepted as soma. Although weed is legal for medicinal uses, it is not allowed unless absolutely needed unlike soma where it is given away. Marijuana’s acceptance has changed drastically over the past 20 years, and on a path like right now it could become the real life