Humanity, although Huxley and Zamyatin illustrate two different types of dystopia where servitude is commonplace, manages to preserve the remains of hope that can be found in many (and sometimes unexpected) ones. Soma, described by Mustapha Mond as “euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly mind-blowing”, is a drug that took “six years [sic] [to be] produced commercially”. It offers hope to the conditioned society by giving it a way to always be happy; “a gram of soma” can cure everything in their eyes, except a “sullen Marx”. However, in reality, it does not offer hope but rather gives the illusion of hope. Instead, he controls the population, enslaving them from happiness. In chapter seven, Lenina “[feels] for her soma in her pocket – only to discover that, in an unprecedented oversight, she had left the bottle at the rest home.” This horrifies her as she must "face the horrors of Malpais unaided" and illustrates how dependent they are on soma, which draws parallels with a modern society. Although doctors don't always prescribe a variety of mood-altering pharmaceutical drugs to sedate and calm us, many people choose to seek them out illegally. Unlike Marx who said that “religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions”. It is the opium of the people, soma is the religion of the people. It’s a bit like how we can become a slave to technology – it can become our master, because it has lost its human purposes. It is now used to restrict human conduct and human choices quite significantly. Mond mentions how soma is like "Christianity without tears", which continues to solidify how religion and soma work in the same way - they both give...... middle of paper ......destined to be a utopia. It is impossible to eliminate all the rebels against a system, “there is no final revolution”. The revolutions are endless. » In conclusion, both We and Brave New World contain glimmers of hope, but in the latter novel, I feel like Huxley offers no hope that society can be changed. Brave New World, in my opinion, was written to warn the world to change course or less turn into the dystopia described in the book and, judging by the society of countries like Russia, we are not at short of a global dictatorship. We end, however, ambiguously with the uncertain future of a single state. This could be seen as hopeful, as birds repopulate the city and people begin to commit acts of social rebellion, breaking the chains of single-state oppression. Works CitedHuxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print.