Gramme In Brave New World

“A gramme is better than a damn.” In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, written in 1932, he warns society of the overuse of drugs. When Bernard and Lenina are left alone on a date, Bernard begins to express his true feelings to Lenina, however, because of her dependency on soma, she conveys to Bernard that his unhappiness will diminish if he participates more among the society as he begins to experience unusual emotions that no one should have in the “Brave New World”
After Bernard deliberates his clash against society with Helmholtz, he attends an outing with Lenina as she attempts to encourage Bernard to uphold society standards on social activities. On the date, Lenina’s behavior of implying multiple traditional activities that displays the constant conditioning of engaging their happiness since they can have everything they want. As for Bernard, he rejects each suggestion as he recommends several activities that contain privacy and one-on-one connection due to his personality. In addition, the author, Huxley, presents the contrast between Bernard and Lenina as the base of what is expected and what is …show more content…
Bernard feels as though intaking soma on a regular basis causes both negative and positive impacts on their decisions. The next morning Bernard is fuming at the thought of what Lenina had convinced him to intake the night before. He is disgusted at both himself and Lenina for falling into the dark hole of drug use. Huxley uses this as a major theme in his novel to show the reader that consuming drugs causes people to have artificial feelings rather than dealing with their problems like a normal person. In the novel, as soon as something goes wrong or the people in the community start to feel a certain way, their first thought is to turn to something that relaxes them and allows for them to forget all about their