Brave New World Essay Test
Brave New Realities
In a high school bathroom, a young girl is casually taking narcotics, the twelfth visitor that the lavatories have seen this day for the same purpose. A man peers into a bottle in a science lab as he pours more DNA samples into the container. As a woman drives home from work, she repeats the phrase 'There's a little McDonalds, in everyone." Aldous Huxley created a remarkable world, one that introduced many new aspects into a simple life, aspects which at that time (1932) would have been thought of as ridiculous and bizarre. Now, in 2002, it seems as though Huxley's futuristic world was not a frivolous guess at what humanity would some day come to, but an accurate imagination of what the world would begin to look like at the end of the twentieth century. The casualty and misuse of drugs, genetic engineering studies and modern society's mass media has helped to shape this age's own brave new world.
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Aldous Huxley
Huxley and Arnold family tree. It is incomplete.As different drugs are produced, the affect and uses of them are changing. Drugs are no longer used strictly for medicinal or indecent purposes, but are now most commonly used for enjoyment or enhancement. Euphorics, narcotics, hallucinogens, depressants, and tranquillizers have all become widespread caused by the peoples desire to improve or change their perceptions of life. In Brave New World (BNW), Huxley created the wonder drug 'Soma.' This is used several times a day as a reward, holiday, escape from reality, or because one feels entitled to it (127). Its use had become so customary in their society, that when some one did not use the substance that was odd. Now a day, the majority of people are not drug users, but the statistics are growing. As peoples lives become more...