Brave New World- Soma as a Symbol

Hello! So my assignment: this is going to be a thesis for my in-class essay for my final in my lit class. It's on the book Brave New World[i] by Aldous Huxley discussing soma as a symbol.[/i] This is for a freshman Honors Survey Lit course at a very prestigious high school. I will be graded thoroughly so please be critical of any errors or corrections that need to be considered. Thanks!

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World describes a utopian society that is centered around stability, human condition, and constant feelings of happiness and pleasure. Huxley explores the irrational tactics we use in life to escape our reality, which ultimately destroy the individual. Through the government's use of soma to control the population, Linda's excessive abuse of the drug, and John's attempt at complete removal of the drug, Huxley reveals how we allow the individual within us to be overcome by anything that will guarantee us pleasant feelings, therefore resulting in a "fake" happiness.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World describes a utopian society which is centered around stability, the human condition, and constant feelings of happiness and pleasure.

Huxley explores the irrational tactics we use in life to escape our reality, which can ultimately destroy the individual.

Through the government's use of soma to control the population, Linda's excessive abuse of the drug, and John's attempt to completelyremove the drug, Huxley reveals how ...

This is very interesting, I'm going to have to read the book now, as I have been meaning to.
Have fun in school, and good luck!

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This is pretty good, Alyssa! It will be better if you can add a sentence or two that puts a unique twist on the theme you are expressing. Huxley's theme is interesting already, but his theme cannot be the theme of your paper. The idea is to make it so that your paper has its own theme -- an interesting observation to make about the literature.

So... this is high quality writing, but the next step is to make your own great observation. Whenever someone publishes an article about a book, the article has a particular point to make about the book. So... Huxley's book + Alyssa = ___________ (the theme)