Rilee Peterson Showen Antidepressants, The Brave New World, and the Real World Imagine suffering day to day. Feeling as if the entire world around you is dark, disturbing, and at times even pointless. Approximately 14.8 million people in the United States, age eighteen and older, are currently suffering from this disorder known as depression. So what is depression anyways? Depression is a mental condition that brings on severe feelings of dejection and despondency. Guilt, inadequate feelings, loss of appetite and sleep disturbances, are also symptoms introduced by depression. In our world today we see the disturbing affects depression has on our society, as well as the effects of antidepressants. Between the real world, and Huxley’s novel …show more content…
54) Soma, was the drug of choice in Huxley’s novel. This drug seemed to have all of the same effects as antidepressants do in our society. Soma even gave people the false idea that one pill, would cure all negativity in their lives. However if we re-read the quote at the beginning of this paragraph, we come to realize the drug doesn’t physically take the problems away, it only gives a false sense of happiness and security for the time being. In the novel there are some instances that occur when characters become extremely unhappy, vunerable, and even suicidal. At the end of the book, John ends his life. While John was not exactly like other characters, in the sense that he knew life in the World State wasn’t right, he still participated in the mind boggling activities from time to time. When the book comes to an end, John wakes up intoxicated, dazed, and delirious from his Soma intake. While the Soma kept him content for that short period of time, the next morning reality hit him like a freight train. He saw the disturbing world around him, and realized this world he was living in would not likely change. Horrified, John takes his own life. In the article The Truth Behind Anti-depressants, it states that “Antidepressants are a quick and temporary fix to mask depression symptoms. Many patients experience a boost in serotonin levels but as soon as they stop or reduce treatment they see their depression symptoms coming back with a vengeance.” This shows that once antidepressant intake comes to a halt, that the mind altering affect they have, is no longer in place. Therefore, reality becomes more clear, as well as the problems that originally provoked the
In the face of hysteria, John decides not to focus on himself, instead he
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a society that uses soma to control it citizen’s emotions but the drug has its consequences and side effects that put people’s life at risks. ' He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered- everything. Oh, my God, my God! He covered his eyes with his hands’’ (Huxley 259). The author informs readers about the consequences of taking soma.
The idea of a Utopian society is one that many are familiar with. A utopian society is defined as a seemingly perfect society actually plagued by mass corruption. While the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley may seem extreme, the ideas of the corrupted society expressed are not incredibly far off from today’s society. Quite frankly, today’s society is more like the New World society than what one may prefer.
This leads John to not acknowledging the narrator's apparent mental illness. John's behavior continues to oppress her by forbidding her to "work" until she is well again. This leads her to create an alternate reality in which she is able to have a sense of control. Her alternate reality
This shows that he couldn’t accept the fact that he was unsuccessful in living up to his scientifically predetermined potential. He felt invaluable and as a result this caused him to attempt to commit suicide. John attempts to stop World State by throwing out Soma. In Brave New World, soma was used by people to prevent people from facing social problems. Therefore, the
By the end of the story, John confesses to the Judge about his affair with Abigail and takes his own life. This shows how he would rather die a good man than live life with debt and grief. He has lived that life before, and would rather not do it
Making them prefer to contact other people in order to enjoy the stillness of life and its simplicity or to get rid of unbearable burdens. For example, When The Savage, John's mother died, Linda, he became angry in the hospital and then detained there but he managed to escape. After that, he moves to an abandoned place. unfortunately, he was desperate due to the lost that all hope, the negative impact of psychological leads to hang himself.
In Aldous Huxley’s imaginative utopia, the three ideas above are held at the highest degree. Unfortunately, for these three ideas to be successful on a global scale, the values of humanity must be forgotten. Although peace and tranquility are achieved in Brave New World, the individual ceases to exist, and the use of a drug called “soma” takes away all emotions except for happiness.
Aldous Huxley created a perfect society in Brave New World. Everyone was happy and content with what social class they were in and had no worries. They took drugs to make themselves feel better. But they didn’t have morals. In our society, we do have morals, but not everyone is happy or content with where they are in their lives, and using drugs doesn’t stop the sadness from inside of you.
Body Paragraph 2: Topic: Ignorance Quote: "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." Huxley mixes Monds description of soma with Bernard 's refusal to take it. Quote: “Again twelve stanzas.
When John decides to live alone in a lighthouse his life become the most isolated and exiled it has been in the entire novel. John cannot deal with the ideas of the New World so he takes part in a form of self punishment to rid himself of the impurities of the New World by whipping himself. This only draws more attention to himself and his lighthouse which was the complete opposite of what he wanted in the first place. John eventually feels so horrible and terrified of what he's become he hangs himself only to be discovered by more reporters coming back the next day to find him.
Today’s groups are similar with how much income one makes, race, sex and religious beliefs. The people, in Huxley’s society, take Soma to relieve stress and as an anti-depressant. We have all kinds of drugs today. Pills to make us lose wright, sleep better, and relieve some pain. We have legalized marijuana in several states.
Truth and happiness are two things people desire, and in the novel, an impressive view of this dystopia’s two issues is described. In this society, people are created through cloning. The “World State” controls every aspect of the citizens lives to eliminate unhappiness. Happiness and truth are contradictory and incompatible, and this is another theme that is discussed in “Brave New World” (Huxley 131). In the world regulated by the government, its citizens have lost their freedom; instead, they are presented with pleasure and happiness in exchange.
Brave New World Comparison Life can often prove insignificant and seemingly unimportant as one may look back on the accomplishments and passing of billions and billions of people. In the twentieth century novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses imagery to reveal the overall lack of importance and significance of death in each individual’s life. Huxley shows how insignificant each individual life is, as many lives come and go each day, and how often life may seem to lack a purpose. By the use of imagery such as “the violet depth of canyons,” and “a mosaic of white bones,” Huxley shows the enormous number of people who die in a single area, as well as the unimportance such deaths play to the people as a very minimal response to the deaths
John was known by some as the Beast king. He was of Filipino descent and he was a really really closed up guy. There was this strange invisible wall which made it hard to approach him. He was betrayed by all his really really close friends(the other kings of humanity).John suicided when the closest thing that he had a crush which he never understood that she loved him although he said it multiple times in his monologues that he isn 't dense and his crush actually betrayed him. She actually sided with the demon army which was a really bad thing like the other humanity kings did and it broke Johns heart so HARD.