They were trying to find that happiness that they thought they could get by taking soma. However, we all know that a drug cannot make you happy. Forgetting your problems and thinking that someone is happy when they are truly trying to seek happiness. Even though soma was a legal drug, it still didn't make any of these characters get what they wanted by being happy. Linda wanted that happiness when soma couldn't provide it, that goes for John. He desperately didn't want to end up like his mother, so he felt the only way to solve his problems or be what he thought would make him happy would be to end his life. However, it is well known that suicide is not the answer nor will it solve anything. I agree with Aldous Huxley when it comes to these characters where each expects to pursue happiness, the image of the way Huxley fabricates on each of these individual characters to point out to his readers in his novel "Brave New World " is evidence of childhood innocence that has been lost. Unlike most characters, they look like robots, designed to have a certain behavior. However, I think this loss when John committed suicide by hanging himself was a tragedy. Huxley is trying to establish a creation by building something that is Utopia. Using soma to escape thinking that life should be happy, no matter what is happening. Even though these characters were only deluding themselves into believing that simply taking a pill would bring them happiness, as many of them would call a "soma"