Welcome back, if you happen to read this blog. Although in all honesty it's a class required blog so it wont be seen by many. Ah well.
Anyway...
It's time.
To inhale.
Because I have a really depressing topic to talk about. And that is Linda's death.
To be 100% honest, I hate this book to death. No pun intended. I feel that this book has little shift in story and the plot is something of a mess. The kind of mess you get when you give a toddler a bowl of spaghetti-os. However, a lot of the underlying themes are very important to understanding what the author of the book tries to convey.
Linda, while a character I did not like, much like every other character in this book, died of a soma overdose. Now, to start, I did ask where overdosing was in this world. This is it. Linda is dead because of soma overdosing. She was taking over the safe amount of soma every day, and finally paid the price.
Here's where I start to think that this is a strong message. In this "perfect" society (I cannot believe I said that) a person died of a drug overdose. The society itself uses soma and sex and many other things, even genetic breeding, to make people infinitely happy. I think that a lot of people would say the overdose was purely accidental, but riddle me this;
If Linda was simply like everyone else, always happy, why did she overdose? I'll tell you why. She, as everyone else would, has her underlying, unalienable humanity. While, scientifically, it is possible for her to be resistant to normal soma doses, this theory is busted by the fact that it seems no matter how much the others take, they don't develop a resistance. And, if Linda were to be more resistant, a larger dose wouldn't kill her. Here we see the underlying cause. She takes more soma because she needs more. She needs more to be happy, in a life where she isnt. How else do you explain it? A careless distribution by the higher ups? A spontaneous death by the body failing due to soma? No my friends. Linda was depressed, and in need of extra soma to stay happy. We don't get much of that in the book, because the soma hides it. But,she was unhappy, sad, like a normal human. The thing that kept her happy, killed her.
Friends, this is where I get serious. This is a very real problem, obviously, and I think this sends a message to society about failure to properly moderate pleasures. Alcoholism, Drug use. It's all forms of pleasure and escape from the turmoil and torture of the real world. But as we all know, too much can kill us. And this is where the society of Brave New World is at a fault. This girl was addicted to soma, and it killed her. She couldnt handle her life like most others could. And friends, this is where my warning comes in.
If you are indulging on something too much, be wary of the consequences of your actions.
No human, not even in BNW, is perfect.
Thanks for reading. I'll have a proper rant for you tommorrow.
Anyway...
It's time.
To inhale.
Because I have a really depressing topic to talk about. And that is Linda's death.
To be 100% honest, I hate this book to death. No pun intended. I feel that this book has little shift in story and the plot is something of a mess. The kind of mess you get when you give a toddler a bowl of spaghetti-os. However, a lot of the underlying themes are very important to understanding what the author of the book tries to convey.
Linda, while a character I did not like, much like every other character in this book, died of a soma overdose. Now, to start, I did ask where overdosing was in this world. This is it. Linda is dead because of soma overdosing. She was taking over the safe amount of soma every day, and finally paid the price.
Here's where I start to think that this is a strong message. In this "perfect" society (I cannot believe I said that) a person died of a drug overdose. The society itself uses soma and sex and many other things, even genetic breeding, to make people infinitely happy. I think that a lot of people would say the overdose was purely accidental, but riddle me this;
If Linda was simply like everyone else, always happy, why did she overdose? I'll tell you why. She, as everyone else would, has her underlying, unalienable humanity. While, scientifically, it is possible for her to be resistant to normal soma doses, this theory is busted by the fact that it seems no matter how much the others take, they don't develop a resistance. And, if Linda were to be more resistant, a larger dose wouldn't kill her. Here we see the underlying cause. She takes more soma because she needs more. She needs more to be happy, in a life where she isnt. How else do you explain it? A careless distribution by the higher ups? A spontaneous death by the body failing due to soma? No my friends. Linda was depressed, and in need of extra soma to stay happy. We don't get much of that in the book, because the soma hides it. But,she was unhappy, sad, like a normal human. The thing that kept her happy, killed her.
Friends, this is where I get serious. This is a very real problem, obviously, and I think this sends a message to society about failure to properly moderate pleasures. Alcoholism, Drug use. It's all forms of pleasure and escape from the turmoil and torture of the real world. But as we all know, too much can kill us. And this is where the society of Brave New World is at a fault. This girl was addicted to soma, and it killed her. She couldnt handle her life like most others could. And friends, this is where my warning comes in.
If you are indulging on something too much, be wary of the consequences of your actions.
No human, not even in BNW, is perfect.
Thanks for reading. I'll have a proper rant for you tommorrow.