Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Fiction
Huxley’s
book Brave New World eerily predicts a future saturated in hedonism and
disregard for higher thinking. The main character, Bernard Marx, finds himself at
odds with this society and the book follows his conflict in a culture consumed with consumerism and brainwashed into submission. A key component of
Huxley’s society is soma, a pill that
citizens take when they feel unsettled or stressed. Through this pill, Huxley implicitly says that how we deal with our discomfort sets us apart. Our struggles push us to question and gain knowledge which lets us
grow. Engaging with the unknown leads to emotional maturity, which is something that many of the characters in
Huxley’s society lacked.
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