Thursday, November 4, 2010

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.

1 comment:

  1. As far as the savage and Caliban are concerned, it seems to me that they are both colonized. In each case, the technologically advanced society believes that it is superior and feels that everyone should be converted to its value system. I think the comparison might show how the drive to expand an empire and control the globe means that "Others" will be oppressed and persecuted as long as they fail to conform the the dominant ideology.

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