説明
Aldous Huxley presents in Brave New World, a futuristic society where humans are bred in bottles and have been manipulated to fit a certain criteria, or "conditioned" from the time they are embryos. In this new society, emotions, religion and culture are sacrificed for social stability. People are not allowed any knowledge of the past, and everything is only explained to the most basic of truth. The freedoms we enjoy today are almost completely abolished.
causing the loss of freedom and liberty of the people.
it predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion.
In a utopian civilization, the people are isolated from one another, divided into five different classes. The classes range from the Alphas, the Betas, the Gammas, the Deltas and finally, the Epsilons. The members of each class are ranked according to their mental capacity and physical appearance.
one will realize that this sort of precaution is necessary. In our world, one has to face racism and stereotypes because people feel threatened by what is different. This conditioning is how the utopian society eliminated the problem. First of all, each class is conditioned to love their ranking and to realize that everyone is important and is indispensable to the society. The important thing here is that the lower classes are not jealous of the superior classes but even believe that their work is too tiring for them. The mental inferiority is very important for the survival of the utopian society. If the lower classes got too smart they would want to move up in life and that would ruin the stability of the society.
Arguments
happiness: the ability to do whatever you want in life
without this ability, we can still achieve happy life.
in this world, individual's freedom is completely abolished. However people are having happy life. Everyone are conditioned to be content with their life from the time when they were embryos.
Soma
Everyone takes Soma on a regular basis.
They depend on drug to make their mental pain go away.
They can't feel happiness because they do not know sadness.
You can not realize that you are happy if you do not know other feelings such as sadness.
Painless world is achievable.
Soma is a drug but is is not harmful to human body.
People find comfort
there is a lack of love
no parents
technology overcomes the ability of one to think.
their intelligence is predetermined.
sleep teaching.
While one is sleeping, a recording is played over and over again.
People do not have their own opinion, they believe what they have taught without knowing it.
One doesn't have control to be sad because of soma.
When one is feeling sad, they have been conditioned to take a pill.
Freedom is only important if it leads to happiness, and if one already possesses happiness, then there is no need for freedom.
Our current practice of worshipping hundreds of different gods is not conducive to a peaceful society and, in fact, results in hundreds of wars being fought every year on our small planet.
Another precaution taken to prevent chaos to the society is the restraint of history, culture and art to the utopian civilization. According to our views, these things are unquestionably important and we would go as far as saying that we could not live without them. But for these people, they are insignificant. Education to us leads to knowledge and for us knowledge is power and power runs the world. However for them there is no need for education because they do not need power. Power will not get them any farther in life then what is already written out for them.
in Brave New World there is no war, no diseases and no old age.
Thanks to the conditioning, nobody even considers fighting. And if ever anyone gets angry or depressed, there is always soma.
This statement indicates that alcohol is our society’s drug of choice while their society prefers soma. Soma offers the tremendous advantage that it has no side-effects.
Bernard Marx is an alpha-plus and therefore should be living the "good life.” But even though his mental status is that of an Alpha-plus, his physical appearance is similar to that of an Epsilon. "They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle---thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate" (Huxley, 46) He quickly becomes an outcast and does not get along with the opposite sex.
Helmholtz Watson also does not like the utopian civilization – his problem is that they let him get too smart. That led him to want a better life, a dream he felt was unobtainable in Utopia.
It is a world where you only possess knowledge you need, where everyone has the same values and principals. Utopia is a world with no war, no disease and no old age.
Mustapha Mond best expressed the theme of Utopia when he said, "the key to happiness is enjoying who you are and what you do"
In general, technology started off by comforting our lives. Now, the rapid growth of technology has replaced the need for one’s own intellect.
-To begin with, technology makes us lazy.
With the use of technology, one no longer use their brain.
-spell check
they do not look up words in the dictionary.
one does not have to write a proper sentence because the grammar check will fix it.
They do not learn.
people copy from internet.
reading is very stimulating to the mind.
TV takes the place of newspapers, and this stops us from reading
calculators are in more use in the US than my home country, Japan.
Students are not allowed to use calculators at school or at any exams.
Technology contributed a lot to the comfort of one's life. However, it comforted society so much that society started to depend on it too much.
society allowed technology to replace the use of one's mind.
the rapid growth of technology has replaced the need for one's own intellect.
3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:
Using "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Science-fiction fantasy clashes with human individuality as a “perfect” society slowly crushes anyone who decides they’d rather not take the feel-good pills.
Themes:
Technology: Mainly used as an instrument of control; Soma and entertainment control the population, sleep conditioning controls the social system.
Nature vs nurture: John, the outsider, lives more naturally and is able to appreciate Shakespeare’s poetry and see the flaws in the high-tech society, but the others around him are too shallow to understand what he means.
Truth vs happiness: It seems that the happiest characters, such as Lenina, are the ones most out of touch with reality, while John, who sees the truth of the world, is bitterly unhappy.
Authority vs. the individual: John rebels against and is eventually destroyed by an all-powerful authoritarian society.
4) Animal Farm by George Orwell:
Animal Farm by George Orwell as essay evidence
Ever heard someone describe your government as “a bunch of pigs?” Orwell puts ownership of a farm in the hands of its animals, and imagines the consequences.
Themes:
Class in society: Despite mostly good intentions, the animals find themselves organized into higher and lower castes.
Exploitation of team efforts: The animals expect their Soviet-style socialism to benefit them all equally, but learn very quickly that the system will be exploited by “pigs” with more power and cunning.
Idealism vs. pragmatism: The most idealistic animals, like Snowball, are quickly taken advantage of by less-principled and more-practical animals like Napoleon who don’t truly believe in the rhetoric of the revolution.
Questioning leadership: Boxer, for example, never questions Napoleon’s decisions, preferring to keep his head down and assume that all is for the best.
Power and corruption: In Orwell’s view, power seems to inevitably corrupt those who hold it.
Aldous Huxley presents in Brave New World, a futuristic society where humans are bred in bottles and have been manipulated to fit a certain criteria, or "conditioned" from the time they are embryos. In this new society, emotions, religion and culture are sacrificed for social stability. People are not allowed any knowledge of the past, and everything is only explained to the most basic of truth. The freedoms we enjoy today are almost completely abolished.
causing the loss of freedom and liberty of the people.
it predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion.
In a utopian civilization, the people are isolated from one another, divided into five different classes. The classes range from the Alphas, the Betas, the Gammas, the Deltas and finally, the Epsilons. The members of each class are ranked according to their mental capacity and physical appearance.
one will realize that this sort of precaution is necessary. In our world, one has to face racism and stereotypes because people feel threatened by what is different. This conditioning is how the utopian society eliminated the problem. First of all, each class is conditioned to love their ranking and to realize that everyone is important and is indispensable to the society. The important thing here is that the lower classes are not jealous of the superior classes but even believe that their work is too tiring for them. The mental inferiority is very important for the survival of the utopian society. If the lower classes got too smart they would want to move up in life and that would ruin the stability of the society.
Arguments
happiness: the ability to do whatever you want in life
without this ability, we can still achieve happy life.
in this world, individual's freedom is completely abolished. However people are having happy life. Everyone are conditioned to be content with their life from the time when they were embryos.
Soma
Everyone takes Soma on a regular basis.
They depend on drug to make their mental pain go away.
They can't feel happiness because they do not know sadness.
You can not realize that you are happy if you do not know other feelings such as sadness.
Painless world is achievable.
Soma is a drug but is is not harmful to human body.
People find comfort
there is a lack of love
no parents
technology overcomes the ability of one to think.
their intelligence is predetermined.
sleep teaching.
While one is sleeping, a recording is played over and over again.
People do not have their own opinion, they believe what they have taught without knowing it.
One doesn't have control to be sad because of soma.
When one is feeling sad, they have been conditioned to take a pill.
Freedom is only important if it leads to happiness, and if one already possesses happiness, then there is no need for freedom.
Our current practice of worshipping hundreds of different gods is not conducive to a peaceful society and, in fact, results in hundreds of wars being fought every year on our small planet.
Another precaution taken to prevent chaos to the society is the restraint of history, culture and art to the utopian civilization. According to our views, these things are unquestionably important and we would go as far as saying that we could not live without them. But for these people, they are insignificant. Education to us leads to knowledge and for us knowledge is power and power runs the world. However for them there is no need for education because they do not need power. Power will not get them any farther in life then what is already written out for them.
in Brave New World there is no war, no diseases and no old age.
Thanks to the conditioning, nobody even considers fighting. And if ever anyone gets angry or depressed, there is always soma.
This statement indicates that alcohol is our society’s drug of choice while their society prefers soma. Soma offers the tremendous advantage that it has no side-effects.
Bernard Marx is an alpha-plus and therefore should be living the "good life.” But even though his mental status is that of an Alpha-plus, his physical appearance is similar to that of an Epsilon. "They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle---thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate" (Huxley, 46) He quickly becomes an outcast and does not get along with the opposite sex.
Helmholtz Watson also does not like the utopian civilization – his problem is that they let him get too smart. That led him to want a better life, a dream he felt was unobtainable in Utopia.
It is a world where you only possess knowledge you need, where everyone has the same values and principals. Utopia is a world with no war, no disease and no old age.
Mustapha Mond best expressed the theme of Utopia when he said, "the key to happiness is enjoying who you are and what you do"
In general, technology started off by comforting our lives. Now, the rapid growth of technology has replaced the need for one’s own intellect.
-To begin with, technology makes us lazy.
With the use of technology, one no longer use their brain.
-spell check
they do not look up words in the dictionary.
one does not have to write a proper sentence because the grammar check will fix it.
They do not learn.
people copy from internet.
reading is very stimulating to the mind.
TV takes the place of newspapers, and this stops us from reading
calculators are in more use in the US than my home country, Japan.
Students are not allowed to use calculators at school or at any exams.
Technology contributed a lot to the comfort of one's life. However, it comforted society so much that society started to depend on it too much.
society allowed technology to replace the use of one's mind.
the rapid growth of technology has replaced the need for one's own intellect.
3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:
Using "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Science-fiction fantasy clashes with human individuality as a “perfect” society slowly crushes anyone who decides they’d rather not take the feel-good pills.
Themes:
Technology: Mainly used as an instrument of control; Soma and entertainment control the population, sleep conditioning controls the social system.
Nature vs nurture: John, the outsider, lives more naturally and is able to appreciate Shakespeare’s poetry and see the flaws in the high-tech society, but the others around him are too shallow to understand what he means.
Truth vs happiness: It seems that the happiest characters, such as Lenina, are the ones most out of touch with reality, while John, who sees the truth of the world, is bitterly unhappy.
Authority vs. the individual: John rebels against and is eventually destroyed by an all-powerful authoritarian society.
4) Animal Farm by George Orwell:
Animal Farm by George Orwell as essay evidence
Ever heard someone describe your government as “a bunch of pigs?” Orwell puts ownership of a farm in the hands of its animals, and imagines the consequences.
Themes:
Class in society: Despite mostly good intentions, the animals find themselves organized into higher and lower castes.
Exploitation of team efforts: The animals expect their Soviet-style socialism to benefit them all equally, but learn very quickly that the system will be exploited by “pigs” with more power and cunning.
Idealism vs. pragmatism: The most idealistic animals, like Snowball, are quickly taken advantage of by less-principled and more-practical animals like Napoleon who don’t truly believe in the rhetoric of the revolution.
Questioning leadership: Boxer, for example, never questions Napoleon’s decisions, preferring to keep his head down and assume that all is for the best.
Power and corruption: In Orwell’s view, power seems to inevitably corrupt those who hold it.