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... itself. Huxley shows that sometimes when the citizens were alone or had a moment of free time, creative forces tended to come up. This is the moment to take some soma tablets, when the individual is conscience of being an individual. Similar to biology and technology, pharmacology can endanger individuals and a whole society, if used without regard to the welfare of human ... ...
... 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 ... ...
... John the Savage commits suicide almost immediately after taking soma. Even with theses effects, one can apparently drift off to a pleasant sleep with soma. For example Bernard Marx takes four tablets of soma to allow him to sleep on his long plane trip to the Savage Reservation in New Mexico. Soma in Brave New World is said to be better than ... ...
... long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears "that's what soma is."" (Huxley, Chapter ... ...
