鈥淐onformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth鈥?鈥?John F. Kennedy
In the novel 鈥淏rave New World鈥? Huxley creates a dystopia where humans are mass produced with their predetermined roles of society in which each are programmed to conform by the use of hypnopaedia and other techniques. In this way, the concept of individuality is lost and instead replaced with the idea of community. 鈥淐ommunity, identity, stability鈥?(Huxley, 1932) is the world state鈥檚 model. At a young age, children are taught the significance of their specific group in the caste system. The use of propaganda that subsequently encourages a prospering society is emphasized and used sufficiently to control the population. Addressed to Beta children to eliminate any doubts and reinforce their specific role: 鈥淎lpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they鈥檙e so frightfully clever. I鈥檓 really glad I鈥檓 Beta because I don鈥檛 work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas鈥︹€?(Huxley, 1932). Likewise the same message is applied to others (alphas, deltas, epsilons) with the information twisted to apply to the corresponding groups.
In a society where morality is eliminated, people are taught that 鈥渆veryone belongs to everyone鈥?and are to take soma as a means of eliminating pain and, as a result, living in a world of deluded happiness. They are taught that 鈥渁 gramme [of soma] is better than a damn.鈥?(Huxley, 1932) When Bernard takes Lenina to the savages, a place considered 鈥渦ncivilized鈥?by the world鈥檚 standards, they meet Linda and her son John. Bernard brings them back with him and the people are awed at the uncivilized behavior of John. When his mother overdoses on soma and dies as a result, John is outraged and starts throwing soma tablets around the area. He is subsequently arrested, along with Bernard and his friend Helmholtz. Bernard and Helmholtz are shipped to separate islands away from each other as they were a threat to the current order of society. John is, for experimental purposes, kept in society. He finds a lighthouse where he stays in solitude but is approached by people intrigued when he starts wiping himself. He later participates in an orgy porgy and takes soma tablets. Ashamed and horrified, he kills himself rather than conform to a society that requires complete obedience to an immoral structure; a society where traditional values are removed and the concept of a family eliminated; where emotions are not real (children are programmed to the reality of death and to take it as a natural process rather than mourn); a society that discourages art, for one 鈥渉as got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art鈥?(Huxley, 1932) and discourages religion. A society that tells an individual what to do has no room for growth or progress. Essentially the people are drones. There is no purpose in living in a society where nothing is true, a society in which one must take soma in order to be 鈥渉appy鈥?and not even that is true. sounds like an interesting novel! ok, well i assume you have it separated into paragraphs in your final copy? if not, just every time you start a new group of ideas, new paragraph.
ur 2nd sentence might be better as: In this way, the concept of individuality is lost and replaced with the idea of "community, identity, stability" (Huxley 1932) which is the world state's model. (then new paragraph)
maybe: Addressed to the Beta children, to eliminate any doubts and reinforce their specific role is the mantra: "Alpha...
third paragraph, first line: In a society where morality is eliminated, people are taught that "everyone belongs to everyone" and soma tablets are a way of eliminating pain,which results in their living in a world of deluded happiness.
(new paragraph for: When Bernard...)
(comma between: son and John) After that:Bernard takes them, not Bernard brings them
I would take out the 'when' before: his mother overdoses
(comma between: friend and Helmholtz)
:by people who are intrigued
and ur last sentence, i got what u are trying to say, but it's a little confusing. maybe: There is no purpose in living in a society where nothing is true, a society in which one must take soma in order to be "happy" and not even that, the society's take on happiness, is true.
ur report's great! it was interesting and flowed nicely. good job! This is not an essay.. it's a synopsis of the story. An essay is a critique of the story... a discussion of the relative merits of the story, the intent of the author, lessons to be learned, etc. i like the essay. i dont think that there is anything wrong with it except for small grammer errors. good job! the book sounds very interesting too. it reminds me of a book i read way back in 8th grade. it was called the giver. :P I'll finish it when I have more time, but the first sentence is tooooo long and immediately caused me to lose focus on the essay. |
