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... Vedic ritual sacrifices." In the novel, Huxley contorts the word by the addition of no side effects after a dose. Much like common drugs now, the most opportune to take soma tablets is when the individual is conscious of being an individual. Huxley proves this when the Assistant Predestinator says "One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments," (37 Huxley). The word soma ... ...
... drug' that is used by all, even induces the same kind of happiness. The only variant is to what extent this happiness overwhelms the user (one or two half-gramme tablets?). "Everybody belongs to everyone else" (127) is the basic psychology of the society. This suggests that an individual owes everything to society, but society in turn owes everything to him ... ...
... Director's reputation. When Linda returned to the new world she was shunned for the birth of her son and she went into a soma holiday. This meant that she took many tablets of soma until she no longer was a normal individual. She was in a comatose state while on soma. The use of the legal drug was to make her forget her emotions ... ...
... new world. The brave new world consists of no feeling, no real love or pain, only living to conformity every day, with sleep-taught rules and real-world-escaping soma tablets. The Brave New World is not brave at all, nor all that new. It is the nightmare, the fear in the back of one's mind- "What if we did conform ... ...
