Brave New Worldddddd

Alright first of all I would just like to say that this book was very depressing and made me want to kill myself in the end J although it was very interesting to read and crazy to try to imagine or even picture inside my head. For this essay we are preparing to write on this novel I think I’m going to relate the novel we read over the summer, 1984 and Brave New World to show how a world that is controlled entirely by a government or a group of controllers will usually end in chaos. In both of these novels the public and the majority of people’s lives were controlled and manipulated to fit what was considered normal. In 1984 the public was completely controlled by the government with false propaganda and their lives were basically a lie that revolved around the government. Similarly the people in Brave New World are basically controlled by birth in that they are created in factories and each person is created for a certain purpose. Anyone who is not made perfectly in one of these factories is considered an outsider and is banished. Also in the novel 1984 any person who happens to think differently than what the government wants and acts out on their thoughts is put through intense torture that will psychologically change their minds and make them “normal” Likewise in Brave New World once someone begins to be aggravated or provoked they are given a drug called Soma which instantly relieves their stress and makes them happy and once again makes them “normal”. Also I might include something about The Tempest using the character of Caliban and the character of the savage in showing how both of these characters were treated poorly and looked down upon just because they were different than everybody else. I think this is so interesting because it seems like in our world today everyone is striving to be different and almost wants that attention that is earned by being unique.

Sir Ken Robinson Vid

Sir Ken Robinson has a very interesting point of view on things but he also makes a lot of important points that became clear and believable. Throughout the video I was really surprised by the relation he made with our current mind set for society and children along with how the world and soceity we live in is what set the standards for which we think is acceptable made complete sense. I also really liked the point he made on how our society today has changed in the way we want to diagnose the many children or few adults with a disease like ADD or ADHD for the reason why some children can't live up to those "standards" or why they are unable to meet the criteria we have created. So now doctors think we can "cure" them by giving them a drugging them and giving them a pill that will sedate them so they can sit still with every other child in the classroom. So they can fit and be the same as every other child who doesn't suffer from ADD or ADHD. This is similar to Brave New World because in the novel everyone is born exactly the same way and for a certain purpose and once someone seems to be thinking differently or anything that strays away from the "norm" they exile them or like our society they drug them. Just like today, how we are giving heavy drugs to the children who think differently so that they can fit in and meet the expectations is just like how the controllers in Brave New World would drug anyone who was different or thought differently so that they could fit in with the "norm". If fitting in means being drugged and not being able to think naturally for myself then count me out cause that's not thinking at all.