There are many things in Brave New World, that would be considered a bottled pleasure. Soma, for example is the mainstream pleasure that they have readily available to them. The way they approach and handle relationships is another pleasure, that is handed to everyone. Brave New World’s civilizations are not taught history of everyone before them, saving them from knowing all the things people had done before their times.
Soma, a small little tablet, with affects close to modern day drugs like LSD, but without the side effects, "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." It gave them an escape you could call it, they took it and could be “gone” for days "As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in …show more content…
Marriage isn’t a thing, having kids is unheard of, and commitment to one person is shunned upon. Everyone “has” whoever they want for a night, meaning they sleep with whomever they want, whenever they want, and it’s the society's norm. There is a thing called Sexual Hormone Chewing Gum, and is chewed by men, for example, Bernard, to attract women to him sexually. With everyone being made in labs, people don’t have kids, when people do have kids, they typically are shunned out of the community, and sent to live in savage reservations.
One other major bottled pleasure is their innocence, and lack of knowledge. They aren’t taught the history of those previous to them. In Brave New World, there isn’t really any deviants, criminals, or “bad” people. They are bred out of irrational and criminalized thoughts. Stealing, murder, etc is not something you see in Brave New World, due to the fact that they don’t know what those things are. They are not taught what those things are, and it’s taken out of their