Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World strongly‚ the vast majority of the population is unified under the World State‚ an eternally peaceful‚ stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. Happiness is deprived from mass produced goods such as obstacle golf‚ Centrifugal Bumble-puppy‚ recreational sex and the most common one‚ the use of the drug soma; a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable‚ hangover-free "holidays". We meet the protagonist Bernard‚ who
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A year ago today I woke up from an enduring coma‚ which was due to a bullet hitting my frontal lobe in a mass shooting at a concert in Chicago‚ and it brought me to a dull country with no opportunity for advancement . I woke up to a dreary hospital room waiting for someone to come in‚ and I pondered a look around my room which only displayed one machine that kept me alive and a bed. Apparently the government stopped funding hospitals and several other groups because our debt came back to us to bite
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In the beginning we learn all about this new‚ modern world‚ where this story takes place. A world without emotion. A world where infants are produced in factories. All of this just to control the useless factors and to do what is best for the people. A place where it is acceptable for individuals to escape reality for countless hours. A society where it is nothing but common to engage in innumerable sexual acts. A world very different from the one we live in today. People are divided into classes
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Mackenzie Calderon Miss Bone English 2 Period 2 14 December 2012 English Literature Data Sheet Quarter 2: Speak Summary & Theme: The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about an incoming freshman named Melinda Sordino. She’s riding the bus to school but she doesn’t have any friends to sit with. While she’s looking over the crowd of kids on the bus she spots her ex best friend‚ Rachel‚ but even she mouths “I hate you.” After Melinda attends her first few classes she already hates high
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relationships with customers and staff. I need be able to relate well to people at all levels‚ build wide and effective networks of contacts‚ and uses humor appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others. Because my future career involves meeting new people on a daily‚ improving on my networking skills is important. The Career Plan Building on Competencies really has confirmed what I already knew about my personality. It made me want to become better at my networking skills because it is vital in
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accomplishments are a testimony to his own words and thus can be considered the backbone of the novel Island‚ where Aldous Huxley depicts the Pacific island of Pala. Pala is an ideal society sustained by philosophical values and disjunction from the surrounding world. Naturally‚ Pala attracts the envy and acrimony from other civil bodies in pursuit of their rich oil deposits‚ leading to the foreseen demise of the utopia. Shipwrecking on the island‚ William Asquith Farnaby is enlightened by the perfection that is
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Chapter 6 -“Bernard pushed away the proffered glass impatiently.” (page 99) In this example the proffered glass refers to soma. Soma in the new world is taken to relieve stress and forget one’s problems. There are hypnopaedic phrases to make children want to take soma such as “A gram in time saves nine‚” or “One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments‚” (Huxley 99). Although the sayings are pumped into children’s’ ears thousands of times Bernard seems to not have absorbed them. Children
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makes the World State sound like a utopia- the perfect world. However‚ as you continue reading‚ you realize the society they have created is more dystopian- a world where no one is an individual and through technology‚ the government is very powerful. I felt the World States motto- "Community‚ Identity‚ Stability" (Huxley‚ 1)‚ was ironic because the people in this community don’t have an identity since they are conditioned to act‚ feel‚ and think a certain way. None of the people in the World State
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are a few things wrong with the society in Brave New World. The first of the problems is the complacency of the people. Everyone in this world like where they are but this is because they have been conditioned to. The second problem is the soma that is almost constantly taken. Lastly most people do not know how anything works and moreover they do not try to improve how it works because it’s a job for sections of higher castes. The people in Brave New World are almost all complacent in the positions
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Because of the technology used by the World State’s leaders‚ social class is predetermined and humans are grown in a way according to their status; the lower the class‚ the dumber and uglier the individual is created to be. As adults‚ the upper two classes interact socially with each other but
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