In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, people take a drug called soma to suppress negative feelings. The goverment encourages this practice in order to keep citizens perpetually happy and under control.
Huxley describes the effects of the drug as:
"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
Characters in the book use it to:
"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or an apology."
They frequently remind each other that:
"And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn."
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In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, people take a drug called soma to suppress negative feelings. The goverment encourages this practice in order to keep citizens perpetually happy and under control.
Huxley describes the effects of the drug as:
"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
Characters in the book use it to:
"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or an apology."
They frequently remind each other that:
"And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn."
June 27, 2009