Published in 1932, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World accurately uses satirical techniques in order to ridicule modern society’s flaws. Huxley describes these deficiencies as a result of the Industrial Revolution that took place from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Because of the development of technological advancements, Huxley scorns the relationship between how the change in technology brings about the change in humanity. One such way that Huxley describes his frustration was through technology such as media and stimulants while he indirectly compares the humanity of Brave New World and the humanity of today. In Brave New World, media and stimulants are advances in technology that are used to enhance the people’s dehumanization through addiction.…show more content… Brave New World depicts the use of the perfect stimulant, soma, as a way to escape reality. Soma is a stimulant used in order to control the population since it affected the brain. Consequently, the drug was abused so that people could continuously feel insouciant and gratified. Everyone in the World State shared the same thought; they believed that “The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get... And if anything should go wrong, there's soma” (Huxley 220). The only two emotions present in the society were enjoyment and depression. When one felt sure with depression, soma was abused as a way to quickly regain happiness. Resulting in a false sense of emotion, people heavily relied on the development of soma in order to “feel better”. Additionally, Mond removed religion from society which was supplemented by soma. Soma is compared to religion because it brought about forged religious emotions since the drug temporarily allows the user to escape from the stress and pressure of the world. Mond understands that religion is a naturalized concept; as a result, he used human conditioning to modify and train the alteration of religion, which created soma (Congdon 5). In other means, soma can be analyzed as an allegorical representation. Soma can indeed symbolize stimulants in the real world, but soma also metaphorically represents any technology that is abused. Today, many abuse the technology of continual access to the Internet and unlimited cell phone functions. Without them, people feel disoriented because they have affiliated these concepts to “happiness”. According to Jane R. Teibaud of Media Ecology Association, since the inventions of technology, humans have abandoned themselves and others because they have slowly lost their humane abilities. Communities rarely find people together with a result of many of the
