Freedom In Brave New World

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley freedom comes in many different forms. For many in this story, freedom is an inconceivable idea. Each moment in their life has been conditioned from birth to the exact specifications made by the rulers to ensure total and complete complacent happiness. This book however shows almost every side to this society. It shows the side of the successful, unhappy or not; the abandoned, one loving and one hating society; and the people in between. For each character comes a different background and a different idea of freedom. Lenina is a beta in this society and she is the prime model of the society as a whole. She is promiscuous, materialistic and clearly understands, not to mention accepts, her position in this
Mother to John and a former society member, she symbolizes the faults in soma. Despite striping away everything that makes people interesting soma seems like a fair trade for people like Lenina who just want a life filled with happiness and no conflict. Linda is shows how untrue the “perfect” drug is. After being left on the island pregnant, Linda is conditioned and addicted. Her love of everything society and soma ruins everything she could have been, such as a good mother. She focusses on her need for soma and reminisces about society and resents becoming a mother. She shows how soma can ruin lives and create just as much unhappiness as it creates “happiness.” The society within Brave New World is built on a foundation of complacency and an unwillingness to seek the different and unknown. It is stabilized by a drug that removes all feelings that may disrupt such views. This book tells the tales of those on every spectrum in this society. It shows the role models, the rebels, and the outcasts and how each and every one of them sees freedom in a different way. Brave New World not only rejects a simplistic view of freedom but shows how freedom comes in many different