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medications to curb her urges for a child. Though she is one of the few females still fertile there are plenty of ways to stop her from becoming pregnant. The most important, simply making sure she is happy not being pregnant. Keeping Lenina and many others on Soma enables people to feel free and have fun. Having fun is valuable to everyone, from gamma to delta to alpha. The Brave New World citizens regard their Soma as gold, in much the same way ancient and modern societies regard olive oil. “The Mediterranean world has regarded the olive as sacred for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians credited the goddess Isis with teaching mankind its cultivation and uses. The Greeks believed that Athena, goddess of wisdom, bestowed the olive on mankind, thereby winning a contest

among the gods for presenting the most useful gift.” {Zwingle 73} Is Soma the gift that Ford may have bestowed upon his people, or just a scientific advance to keep people in check? Citizens are taught catchy phrases, “A gramme is better than a damn”, and given this chemical daily to keep them in a euphoric state, much like any drug of this day and age. Brave New World is not only a direct mirror of our sexual interactions it also acts as a guide to many atrocities throughout our world. The majority of the populace is sterile, in an effort to control what types of people are put to work. From 1935 up until 1976 nearly 60,000 Swedes were sterilized. All of these considered, “…inferior, flawed by bad eyesight, having mental retardation, or ‘undesirable’ racial

characteristics.”{Forced}. The government-enforced program began as a pursuit of eugenics, or a “movement to improve humanity by controlling genetic factors in reproduction”{Forced}. Most of these occurred during Nazi occupation, a time when many people were brainwashed by the German leader Adolf Hitler. Hitler, so obsessed with building up his Arian race had built a literal caste system with himself the Alpha male, and the minority Jews as worker Deltas. In The Communist Manifesto, Carl Marx attempts to create a utopia of happy, equal citizens, this will eventually backfire. Yet it gives Huxley a grand idea, that should everyone be happy, production would increase and corruption would fall. Not only does America reflect the ideas In Brave New World but Brave New World

mirrors political ideas in the past. Yet political power usually creates unrest, so Huxley leaves people alone, to be happy, he uses science to hit them when they are most vulnerable, when they don’t yet exist. Gregory Mendell, the father of genetics{Shreeve}, for all our genetic research in this day and age he should be our Ford, our messiah. One of the most prominent ideas regarding their reproduction methods has to be test-tube babies. Once again Huxley must have looked into a crystal ball to predict the actual fertilization and development of a human in a plastic tube. Yet once again we meet with the wall of moral obligations that must be fulfilled, plastic tube replaces mother, erotic play replaces moral instruction, and sleep teaching replaces school. A few years ago

using fertility drugs a group of septuplets were born, to a family with already one child. Is this the first sign of the future of mass-production mothers? Without regard to the mother’s health or the baby’s well being all seven survived luckily{Leo}. What will these parents do when the children grow; seven kindergartners, seven little campers, seven teenagers, seven college tuitions. Without the resources of the government how could one family deal with a virtual baby boom, both parents must work to support these children. Once again we are back to the disintegration of the family as a moral support unit due to lack of interaction. Janet and Brad find out in The Rocky Horror Picture Show what the savage, John, discovers about his Brave New World, it is fast paced,

emotionless, and machine-like. Something that our world is slowly but surely morphing into, it makes you step back and truly wonder if one hundred years from now everyone will be robotically happy. With the effects of Soma sounding very similar to other drugs in our country one must wonder when they will be legalized, when one day you may be stepping into a line for your daily ration of any number of hallucinogens. Perhaps Huxley has a grand idea after all, no worries, no fears, happiness, free to do as you wish because no other thoughts could enter your mind. Who was it that said, “Ignorance is Bliss”?