The Place I Am Referencing Is The World State From Aldous...

Envision a utopia in which every factor that could lead to one’s unhappiness was eliminated. There would be no family, no love, and no emotions. There can be no forms of high art that stir up revelry in people. These things lead only to heartbreak, loss, and depression in the eyes of this world’s leaders. With these negative emotions, the utopian society cannot achieve social stability. However, a new drug, Soma, does away with any negative emotions and makes life a â€Å"joyful place.† The place I am referencing is the World State from Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World. In the World State, citizens are stripped of emotion and the truth about their situation in order to achieve the social stability their leaders desire, but is their happiness really worth it if it is fake? Huxley presents the incompatibility of social stability and truth by illustrating the constant struggle between valuing one or the other in order to achieve a world without conflic t. The most prominent solution the World State leaders have for social instability is the drug soma. It is a drug that clouds any negative emotions and replaces them with joyful hallucinations that take you on a so-called â€Å"holiday† from reality. Mustapha Mond, the Resident World Controller of Western Europe, believes that soma is the reason there are no wars in the World State. But there aren t any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much. There s no such thing as a divided