"Too awful! That blood! Oh, I wish I had my soma." (Huxley 110)
This is Lenina experiencing displeasure watching a boy get whipped and cannot deal with the stress. She immediately turns to drugs when she is finds something that makes her uncomfortable to ease her mind. In BNW when you feel something other than pleasure you take soma to fix it. Soma sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from whats actually wrong. Soma is the perfect drug that yields no consequences and gets a person pleasantly high where they can still control themselves.
Soma (Carisoprodol) is a muscle relaxer that works by blocking pain sensations between the nerves and the brain. Soma is used together with rest and physical therapy to treat injuries and other painful musculoskeletal conditions. Soma may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.Soma acts directly on the central nervous system rather than directly on skeletal muscles. The drug seems to interrupt neuronal communication with the spinal cord and certain areas of the brain, resulting in sedation and altered perception of pain. (http://www.drugs.com/soma.html)
This is Lenina experiencing displeasure watching a boy get whipped and cannot deal with the stress. She immediately turns to drugs when she is finds something that makes her uncomfortable to ease her mind. In BNW when you feel something other than pleasure you take soma to fix it. Soma sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from whats actually wrong. Soma is the perfect drug that yields no consequences and gets a person pleasantly high where they can still control themselves.
Soma (Carisoprodol) is a muscle relaxer that works by blocking pain sensations between the nerves and the brain. Soma is used together with rest and physical therapy to treat injuries and other painful musculoskeletal conditions. Soma may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.Soma acts directly on the central nervous system rather than directly on skeletal muscles. The drug seems to interrupt neuronal communication with the spinal cord and certain areas of the brain, resulting in sedation and altered perception of pain. (http://www.drugs.com/soma.html)