Brave New World Persuasive Essay

“What we love will destroy us,”(Postman), a phenomenon that will or has already occurred at some point in our lives. Whether it's on a large scale, such as abusing a dangerous substance, or something simple, like unknowingly being in a relationship with the wrong person. Eventually the thing we were so infatuated will take its toll on us by leaving us delirious to the what's happening in the world around us. For many, we’ll just let it keep happening, like in the book Brave New World. In Brave New World, Huxley paints a horrifically possible future that he feared would happen. Aldous prediction for the future is possible because of it’s void of monogamy, and use of technology in a totalitarian society.
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Huxley, on the other hand, did not like the look of that future. Brave New World’s desire for instant happiness is starting to share more similarities to ours everyday. With the invention and use of Soma as a drug that is a quick cure or escape from the common emotion of sadness, an emotion that everyone feels, bears a bit resemblance to antidepressants used today. Can it be possible that in order to never be depressed, that our government will one day so it's not possible to feel it? Would the society one day present you with a fancy commercial narcotic that would put an end to all your bad days? Huxley believed so especially with society's growing need for instant gratification seen more and more recently through the use of advertisement. Today it is also seen that the addiction of drugs has gone up amongst people all around the world. Recreational drugs are seen being used to achieve an instant height of emotions and feeling as if all your problems are taken away from you that moment. Seem familiar to Lenina’s need for soma to escape her problems “It’s awful. We ought not to come here” “she felt in her pocket for her soma,” (Huxley,