Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Brainstorming Brave New World Essay
I couldn't write much tonight, there is many a thing to do scholarship wise and I have another essay due tomorrow. I know the book well, so I'm prioritizing.
Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD)
in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that
character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and
moral values.
John is the outcast of the World State and was not raised within the consumer conveyor belt. Brought up by the Savages he holds the relationship between a man and a woman in the highest regards.
"There is a holiness to the heart's affections." ---Keats
When he begins to have feelings for Lenina he tries to subdue them, but when she seduces him in chapter 13 all of these idea he has had about her being a pure creature worthy of his affections cease and he calls her an impudent strumpet.
Lenina doesn't see anything wrong with what she did. That's how she was taught to act. Instant gratification. Herein lies the contrast. Lenina is open about her desires, where as John reflects the normality of Huxley's society.
Soma is the drug of the people but John would rather learn from his mistakes and BE A HUMAN BEING. He sticks out so much and we see this when he goes to the world state, when his mother is dying and near the end when he is trying to "cleanse" himself of the society he deems as horrible.
Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD)
in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that
character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and
moral values.
John is the outcast of the World State and was not raised within the consumer conveyor belt. Brought up by the Savages he holds the relationship between a man and a woman in the highest regards.
"There is a holiness to the heart's affections." ---Keats
When he begins to have feelings for Lenina he tries to subdue them, but when she seduces him in chapter 13 all of these idea he has had about her being a pure creature worthy of his affections cease and he calls her an impudent strumpet.
Lenina doesn't see anything wrong with what she did. That's how she was taught to act. Instant gratification. Herein lies the contrast. Lenina is open about her desires, where as John reflects the normality of Huxley's society.
Soma is the drug of the people but John would rather learn from his mistakes and BE A HUMAN BEING. He sticks out so much and we see this when he goes to the world state, when his mother is dying and near the end when he is trying to "cleanse" himself of the society he deems as horrible.
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