Issues In Brave New World

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley wrote about many issues in his time period. Some of these issues still face us today. Examples of this would be the role of women in society, the use of soma, and conditioning. Aldous Huxley did not fully explain what soma was but we can infer that it was some sort of drug used to make people happy. Aldous Huxley wrote about many topics that still face this this world today even if it is unnoticed. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley gave many clues throughout the story about men being superior to women. When the director was giving the students a tour of the hatchery Aldous exclaimed that none of the students were women, but they were all males (Aldous Huxley 2). The previously mentioned comment shows
At birth people working at the hatchery could give babies certain traits and qualities. They did this through hypnopaedia which is sleep teaching. So today children are conditioned to like certain things. This can happen today even if it is not realized. Children are conditioned to like certain things based on what their parents like or dislike. Moreover, if a parent believes in their child then they are more likely to achieve a certain goal. "Parents who saw college in their child's future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets."(Halfon 2) This can cause children to be more like their parents and not who they want to be. This is how conditioning affects our society today. One more topic that Aldous Huxley talked about was soma. Even though he didn’t explain what soma was he gave us hints throughout the story about what it is. From what Aldous Huxley said, it is inferred that soma is a drug that babies were conditioned to like. People took soma whenever they felt sad or depressed. In today’s world soma can be related to drugs. Today when people are going through a depressing stage they use drugs to get over it. “About 570,000 people die annually in the U.S. due to drug use.”(Drug Abuse