Brave New World: Escape from Reality Brave New World by Aldous Huxley takes a look at human obsessions with pleasure. In the society in the book, there are several quick and easy ways of feeling good. First of all, there is a soma, a readily available drug used to escape from reality for a few hours or a few days. The “feelies” are a common form of entertainment. The audience sees, hears, smells, and feels, a sort of action adventure adult movie. Casual sex is a third popular way to spend spare time. Since “everybody belongs to everyone else,” commitment is a non-issue. We see that by this sort of “escape from reality” people tend to become less and less of an individual. We have our own soma nowadays, whether it be called advertising, television, consumerism, and the gods of efficiency, materialism....

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