1. During the translator’s notes‚ I thought it was interesting when it states that‚ “…translators frequently disagree among themselves as to what a given word or phrase could mean.” When I think about it‚ words in different languages can translate into different meanings and/or other words entirely. For example‚ in English when calling someone an ass‚ the animal representing that word is a donkey. While in Spanish‚ when calling someone an ass‚ it translates to an ox. It is interesting saying one
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SUMMARY Log Entry 2 Many have seen the movie "The Notebook‚" based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel. Regardless‚ you have to read the book. It’s one of the best I’ve read recently. It’s filled with many scenes the movie didn’t include. The story‚ set in the ’40s‚ follows Noah and Allie‚ two people once in love. It starts off with Noah and Allie being in a Nursing home and Noah reading to Allie from a notebook‚ little did Allie know that‚ the story Noah is reading is actually about them... During
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Contemporary Connection Essay In Brave New World the idea of sex is completely different from what it is in the world today. Sex‚ in the novel is a recreational act if you will‚ an action that holds no meaning in a persons life and is merely preformed for pleasure alone. In todays culture having sex is a big deal and is usually thought of as a momentous occasion in the life of a person‚ and if you were to have sex so often like it is described in the book you would be labeled a “slut” or a “whore”
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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World examines numerous issues thriving in his world in an effort to discourage readers from mirroring aspects of the dystopian society similar to the one presented in the novel. Despite Huxley’s cautions based on his relatively accurate predictions of the future‚ key issues from the past still reside today. Since the early twentieth century‚ social classes have separated people based on their role in society‚ women have taken and continue to take strides towards equality
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hear about conspiracy theories about the government somehow controlling us or the way that we think? What if that was actually true? Would you try to break free from the mold? In one novel by Aldous Huxley‚ Brave New World‚ that is what is actually happening. The government in Brave New World has various means of controlling the people who live under its rule. They use many different procedures of doing so‚ some of which include soma‚ conditioning‚ and the caste system. First‚ the government in this
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All these events help in johns fall. His character could not endure what he had seen in the world state. What he had faced drives him crazy and that is showed when he knew about his mothers death and the effect of soma on her. He starts to cry and get hysteria; he begins to throw the soma boxes out of the window opening onto the inner court of the hospital. He thinks about people and how soma controls their lives. He called them slaves and babies. By his action‚ he wants to make the creatures free
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one characteristic that sets this novel apart from the norm is its setting. It’s so important that it defines not just the ways characters interact with the world‚ but also how they go about and mentally approach that interaction. The most glaring example of this fact is that‚ during their initial development‚ the people living in this world are carefully engineered to belong in certain categories‚ or social ranks. This conditioning was explained in the beginning of the novel by Mr. Foster to a group
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In the book "Brave New World" the author Aldous Huxley wrote about a world different from our own. This world shows that their is not only one way of functioning in a society‚ in fact the way the World State runs and the way we run are different. For example In their world everyone is bread from labs to be the same and have no unique qualities while in our world we are born from our mothers womb and have individual unique qualities like some are smarter than others or faster than the rest. In their
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Brave New World Theme Statement Essay The novel ’Brave New World’ starts out with the world’s states motto of stability‚ identity and community. One can infer from the start that these could be the books explicit themes‚ but once you read it through it becomes clear that the books primary focus is stability. Stability is caused by the happiness of a community as a whole‚ because if a community is happy then the people have no reason to riot or rebel. To control the happiness‚ (and in turn‚
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A new society that was created by science and technology. The novel‚ Brave New World‚ was written by Aldous Huxley. This science fiction novel was published by the publishing company HarperCollins in New York‚ New York. The original copyright date was in the year of 1932‚ but was then later copyrighted in the year of 1946 by the author Aldous Huxley. John is the main character‚ but he is also the antagonist in this novel. He has many qualities that makes him important. He also has people that
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