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A Brave New World

 

            
             In life, sacrifices are made to further a given situation or experience, generally making the outcome better than it was before. The idea is to pay a price to achieve what one may want. But eventually a line must be drawn as to what price is worth paying in order to achieve that goal. In The life of Galileo and Brave New World, the goal is a stable society. The essential idea around these sacrifices is that no price is worth paying if it undermines the society. No price is worth paying for a stable society if it undermines the truth because eventually the truth will come out and that same "stable- society, will eventually crumble.
             In Brave New World, the society is centered on the goal of a complete utopia, or a "perfect- society. Distinct class divisions are determined from birth, people are brain washed to have pride in their given class, and the drug Soma is used as an aphrodisiac to keep the whole community happy at all times. However, in the midst of these attempts to create the perfectly stable society, a problem arises: human nature. .
             Humans are all different and function off of different opinions. In any community, stable or un-stable, there are people who do not agree with the way their homes are run. "Listen, I beg of you don't take that horrible stuff. It's poison, it's poison- (Brave New World, pg. 211). This shows that the utopia in Brave New World completely undermines the truth. It ignores the fact that not everyone will agree with the taking of Soma to keep the society happy. With that small disagreement may come the downfall of any stable society. That downfall is directly caused by the fact that the prices paid for that stable society undermine the truth. In the end, the society will not only be unstable, it may be non-existent. .
             Many believe that religion is one of the only ways in which a society can be truly stable. In The Life of Galileo, the church controls the society.


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