Humanity, despite Huxley and Zamyatin illustrating two different types of dystopia in which servitude is commonplace, manages to maintain the remains of hope that can be found in numerous (and sometimes unexpected) numbers. Soma, described by Mustapha Mond as "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinating", is a drug that took "six years [sic] [to be] commercially produced". It offers hope to the conditioned society by giving them the chance to always be happy; “One gram of soma” can cure anything in their eyes, except a “desolate Marx.” However, it does not actually offer hope but rather gives the illusion of hope. Instead, he controls the population, enslaving them with happiness. In chapter seven, Lenina "[searches] her pocket for her soma – only to discover that, in an unprecedented oversight, she had left the bottle in the guesthouse." This horrifies her as she must "face the horrors of Malpais without help", as well as exemplifying how dependent they are on soma, which draws parallels to a modern society. While doctors don't always prescribe a variety of mood-altering drugs to calm and sedate us, many people choose to seek them out illegally. Contrary to 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 is very similar to how we can become slaves to technology: it can be our master, since it has lost its human purposes. It is now being used to quite significantly limit human conduct and human choice. Mond mentions how soma is like "Christianity without tears", which continues to solidify how religion and soma work the same way: they both give... middle of paper... born to be a utopia. It is impossible to eliminate all rebels against a system, «there is no final revolution. Revolutions are infinite.' To conclude, both We and Brave New World contain glimmers of hope, but in the latter novel I have the feeling that Huxley offers no hope that society can be changed. Brave New World, in my opinion, was written as a warning to the world to change course or turn into the dystopia described in the book, and judging by society in places like Russia, we are not short of a world dictatorship. Ours, however, concludes ambiguously with One State's future unclear. This could be seen as hope as birds are repopulating the city and people begin to commit acts of social rebellion, breaking the chains of One State oppression. Works Cited Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print.