Subsequently, these controlled dystopian governments in The Hunger Games and Brave New World use incentives to keep capitalist exploitation stable within their societies. In Brave New World the government provides Soma to manipulate their population with “material influence… recreational sex and state-sanctioned “drug-holidays”(soma)” (Gruenwald 26). Citizens of the World State are conditioned to take Soma whenever they begin to feel distraught or unhappy. This source of distraction “provides an escape, “a holiday from reality” an ersatz religious experience” (Diken 154). In the novel, Lenina suggests to Bernard that he should take soma when he starts questioning the true value of their lives and the actions of their society. Lenina persuades
