Coming up with your topic and developing your thesis...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley..... there are many ideas that are popping in my mind, that i might consider writing about! Here is one that I might consider......
TECHNOLOGY and how it is used to control the society are one of the few ideas I might write my essay on. Although Brave New World is a very different and controlling society it is very interesting to read about. For example, how "human beings" are produced or shall i say "made!" I mean who would have thought about 50-100 identical human beings. CRAZY i tell!!!! I understand we use technology today to help many couples conceive but 50-100 kids .... the closest we probably have got is 8! Anyways other than technology the drug SOMA is a great influence on Brave New World! The drug is able to control the World State populace, it symbolizes the use of the instant gratification. Using technology to create a drug like"SomA" is clever... very clever. This drug helps the society in Brave New World alive and running. Taking soma whether you are female or male will help make you feel better. And for the women it prevents pregnancy. It encourages one night stands and being promiscuous.
MY THESIS.....(DUH!!) follows below.......
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As technology and the use of it advances, it makes it easier to control a society like Brave New World.
Using other texts...
1984 by George Orwell, Postmodernism by Jim Powell, and Shakespeare's text will help give my thesis support and hopefully keep my readers in tune and help keep there attention. Comparing "1984" and "Brave New World" the societies in both books are very similar. In both books, technology is able to help or control its society. Talking about myths and narratives (Postmodernism) leads into Shakespeare. For example, the use of his text might be forbidden in the book but many of the character(s) still use it. Which also impacts the decisions they make.
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I am still somewhat disappointed that I have to comment on more people, so this response might not be the best. Well, I like the ideas you presented throughout your post about our upcoming essay topics because they were a parallel of my own. The predestined lives given to the children at the beginning of their birth was a topic I fully stressed in my post. I was hoping to see your view on the reason why the creation of hundreds of the same beings is wrong. Is it the act of creating children for the benefit of society that is wrong, or is it the sake of technology becoming so advanced that it is wrong? We also parallel with the idea of soma and its synthetic emotions it creates. Their whole society only know two things, work and pleasure. They were predestined to do their job since the first day they were born. This pleasure comes from all the grams of soma they are taking, while they also sleep around with different members every so often. They do not truly know what real happiness is. Alright Navdeep, I think this will be it for now. Now, I am off to write Courtney’s and Pam’s responses.
ReplyDeleteAlright..let us make this clear..lol. I like your ideas and we almost have the same ideas about technology and how it changes the whole society or controls it. I didn't know what SOMA was until you explained it so thank you for answering that. Also your thesis is clear cut understandable and i like it a lot. Everything you said about cloning people is true and i like how you stated that "The drug is able to control the World State populace, it symbolizes the use of the instant gratification." This is absolutely right and what if they didn't use SOMA then everything would be chaos i bet. However, it can also resemble the society and when you look at it, from their point of view it might seem normal, but to us audience it is a society most of us don't want to live in. Keep up the great work and I definitely enjoy reading your blogs :)
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Ok, so this is off topic but when you said that the closest we got to was 8…..well my great great grandmother was 1 of like 19 kids. Anyways, back on topic, your ideas were similar to mine about how technology is used in the society to control everyone. I really liked how you explained the SOMA drug because it was helpful in my understanding of it a little more. For your thesis…..I think you could explain a little more about what argument you are going to make like how it is easier to control a society like Brave New World. With the use of your other sources, you will be able to explain your thesis and put up a pretty good argument. Way to go on how narratives from Postmodernism tie into Shakespeare. Overall, you have good ideas that will help you write a pretty good essay!!
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