#SOMA BRAVE NEW WORLD FULL#
There are many other instances where soma become a full on drug to them. Bernard is hesitant to participate in the orgy but soma calms him down and he eventually participates without knowing, due to the soma. Soma is used in this scenario in order to relax those who dont feel comfortable with the recreations they are forced to participate in, like Bernard. During this meeting, certain caste members are in a room and all take drinks of soma from the same cup while repeating I drink to the imminence of His Coming.(Huxley 82) After everyone becomes relaxed and everyone has felt Him coming, they move to couches and proceed with their orgy. An example of the way that soma is used in the novel is during an event that these people call orgy-porgy. There are many different ways that conditioning is used throughout this novel on different members of society whether it be in social settings or on their own time. Reinforcements such as soma and hypnopaedia are used throughout the novel in order to keep the members of the castes compliant with the rules of the Brave New World. For example, castes which will work in hotter climates as adults are conditioned when they are children to stand the hot climates while members who do not need to be intelligent for their assigned job will undergo oxygen deprivation and alcohol in their blood to make them less intelligent when they become adults. This is due to the conditioning that goes along with the different castes. Man will never be equal, even in what was meant to be the utopia of Brave New World. In an article written by Peter Firchow, a previous member of the University of Minnesota’s English Department, asked Was it really possible for all men to be equal?(Firchow) in relation to the novel. Each caste goes through different rounds of conditioning based on their predetermined caste. In this case, their inescapable social destiny is the caste in which they are assigned when they are embryos. All conditioning aims at making people like their unescapable social destiny.(Huxley 15) This quote explains why the conditioning is used and that is, like Huxley said, to make people like the society they can not escape. In the novel, Huxley states That is the secret of happiness liking what youve got to do. In order to keep everyone happy, the leaders of the Brave New World used soma to relax and make these members of their society easy to control. The purpose of conditioning members of society throughout their lives was to keep everyone equal which should have inevitably create a utopia. “Conditioning in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World””