Topic A: The Society

"Now--such is progress--the old men work[...]from Electromagnetic Golf course too..."(Huxley 55-56)

In this passage, we realize many customs to the Brave New World society. First of all, Huxley indicates that the ultimate goal in life in their society is pleasure. Pleasure to their society means distractions, from women to drugs, or soma, to feelies. The passage demonstrates the societies feelings toward pleasure. They do not see any other reason for life than creating pleasure for yourself. Their whole society is based on bringing pleasure to everyone. The people don't have any freedom, they are controlled, yet each and every one of them is sincerely happy with their life. The distraction from work, or whatever it may be comes from the drug, soma which is a drug with no lasting side affects like the drugs we have in our society. Soma was made to create lasting happiness and "a gramme is better than a damn," (Huxley 54) they say. They also have feelies, which are movies in which you can actually feel, see, hear, taste and smell what is going on. The human attributes that are encouraged by this dystopian society is the attribute of desire. Whatever one desires, one should receive. None of the "people" in which are realistically dehumanized, are involved in very purposeful activity apart from creating more "people" from budding embryos'. This is not a society I would like to be apart of.