Ther are have been several questions that have come to my mind while reading Brave New World. One of these questions is imilar to what many people are probably asking, and that has to do with running out of soma.
Question # 1.) How would someones feelings toward another change if they ran out of soma?
I hypothesized that if someone were to run out of soma there usually feelingles feelings with little emotin towards other wuld become like that of a normal person in todays societies and perhaps a little stronger because of the lack of it for so long. All that emotion has to be building up inside them, all those real emotions and expressions. Ifound support for this hypothesis on pg. 126 where it says about Lenina toward the white man at the peblo; "Lenina was smiling at him ; such a nice-looking boy, she was thinking, and a really beautiful body." I believe if Lenina was on her Soma she would not think and feel this way about the man.
Question #2.) Could someone from the Onestate survive in the outside world and if so in what conditions would they be living?
One would think that someone from the oestate being so reliant on soma and brainwashed to believe and behave in strict ways and thinking that th Onestate is the way the world was supposed to be that living outside of the Onestate would drive them crazy, they would not know how to survive , or they would become ill from withdraw of all their meicines and behaviors in the onestate. I hypothesized that someone from the onestate that moved out would kind of go crazy and go in a downward piral and not survive or conform an outside society to be like the Onestate. Ifound a possibility of what might happen to a person once from the onestate who moved out in pages 127-131. In these pages about the young man that Lenina and Bernard meet at the pueblo they go int his mother's house and are immediately disgusted at the condition of the house and the women and her hygiene. This is a direct example of what could happen to someone who moved out of the onestate.
Question #3.)This is a question to whch I so far couldn't really find any bit of an answer unless I missed it it, but; Why do the people in the onestate live very healthy lives with almost no impairments and then suddenly die? This came up on page 120 wher Lenina and Bernard see the very old man climbing the ladder at the pueblo, and Bernard says, "youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then crack! the end." I hypothesize that it was maybe because of so much medication and brainwash but I am still unsure.
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