Huxley vs. Orwell

Both authors describe a society the t is futuristic, however, they both have descriptions that mirror our world today. Huxley created a world where people were trained to love certain things. Huxley feared that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one interested in reading books. In the book Brave New World, people weren’t raised by their parents, in fact they didn’t even have parents. Babies were made in a factory where they would take one egg and split it however many times they wanted to.

They coo old make up to nineteen identical twins from just one egg. The story started out with a gar pup of dents receiving a tour of the London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre fro m a man literally named The Director. “The Director started by explaining the process b y which the humans were grown inside bottles and then conditioned (brainwashed)” to be live certain “morals”(Shampoo). English Com 121 In short, what Huxley feared that the future of our government and that the government would give us so information that we would become passive and egotistical.

He feared that the truth would be “drowned in a sea of e). Huxley also was concerned that “we would become a trivial culture preoccupied with mom equivalent of the fillies, the orgy porgy and the centrifugal bumblebee’s'(professorship). I believe what Huxley was saying in that last statement is that he fears that our society will become irrelevant and what we love with be the end of us (Zeroed). Understand his fears and if he could see what our culture is like today I believe that he would be spinning in his grave. 984 is opposite of Brave New World but still follows the dyspepsia like theme. George Orwell wrote 1 984 after some experiences with Nazi and Stalinist stats sees. His book is about government oppression and his worries of how the future would turn out. The world he created was terrifying where wars were fought constantly for no 10th err reason but to create shortages of people, terror, and uniformity. The main goal of the go Vermont was to control everyone’s thoughts completely.

The main character of the story WA s named Winston Smith who is still able to think for himself despite the constant prop agenda and monitoring of everything in his life. Winston Smith lives in Oceania, one of the three countries that split up the entire globe; the other two were Eurasia and East IA. All three countries were lead by Big Brother which was the government in 1984. Big BRB other is always watching and they try to control everyone?s thoughts. In short, Winston n was disgusted by the culture he lives in and decided to keep a diary.

He also fell in love with a woman named Julia who is also a rebel; to fall in love someone was a crime(S pa remotes). Orwell feared the people that banned books considering the time period he lie Veda in. He also feared those who would “deprive us of information and keep the truth h concealed from us”(Zeroed). Orwell worried that we would become a “captive culture e and controlled by having pain inflicted upon us”(Professorship). Most of all, Row ell feared that our ruin would come because what of we hate; that we would all die of w AR and government oppression (Professorship).

There is a lot of debate in literary circles about both of these authors and who right, and more importantly who most accurately describes the current society y we live in. While both authors make very valid points as well as amazing descriptions, the ere are some clear differences. In my research I found a statement by one oftener many fan s that it sums up the similarities and differences of both authors. L believe they’re both right, but if you have to choose, then Huxley is the clear winner.

If you presume that society runs in circles, slowly stereotyping, like a malfunctioning rocket doing loops as it heads higher in the sky, then Orwell m rely described a single loop of the rocket. On the other hand, Huxley described n tot only his own loop, but what would happen when the rocket ran out of fuel. To put it another way, I believe Orwell correctly described the acts of many government TTS at the time and Huxley correctly described contemporary and future government s” (Macho Man).

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Emotional Intelligence in Brave New World

Emotional Intelligence in Brave New World In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, both the world and its people are designed to disallow deep feeling and passion. But, assuming the citizens of Brave New World are human, is it really possible for humans to exist as social, thinking beings without true emotion? What is emotional intelligence? For years people have been asking that same question. Emotional intelligence was first discovered in the 1930s by Edward Thorndike, but the term was still unfamiliar to the psychological world.

The term “emotional intelligence” was not officially used until 1985 by Wayne Payne (Cherry “Timeline of Modern Psychology”). Today researchers still do not have an accurate description of emotional intelligence. In 1990 John D. Mayer was the first to describe emotional intelligence (EI) as “the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (Salovey 1990, pg. 185).

Mayer and his research partner Peter Salovey further defined emotional intelligence as “a set of skills hypothesized to contribute to the accurate appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself and in others, the effective regulation of emotion in self and others, and the use of feelings to motivate, plan and achieve in one’s life” (Salovey 1990, pg. 210). Emotional intelligence is not only the regulation of emotions, but also the deregulation of emotions. The regulation of emotions is when we have control over our emotions. The deregulation of emotions is when there is no control over our emotions.

The deregulation of emotions is greatly needed in our society because to be creative and to think outside of the box, one needs to let go of his or her emotions. To be passionate, our society needs to let our emotions run freely and flow without being restricted. Emotional intelligence gives that passion which encourages people to create our imaginative and our artistic society that we have established today. The question of whether we can live without deep emotion is also a question of whether we can exist without imagination.

Emotional intelligence is a key ingredient in critical thinking. Critical thinking is the Rational reflective thinking concerned with what to do or believe, then critical thinking clearly implicitly implies the capacity to bring reason to bear on emotions, if for no other reason than that our emotions and feelings are deeply inter involved with our beliefs and actions. (Elder) In her article, Linda Elder gives the example: “If [a person] feel[s] fear, it is because [they believe] that [they are] being threatened. Therefore [they are] likely to attack or flee” (Elder).

This shows how thought and emotions collaborate with each other to express our actions in difficult situations and in everyday life situations. Elder discusses how “it is critical thinking which provides us with the mental tools needed to explicitly understand how reasoning works, and how those tools can be used to take command of what we think, feel, desire, and do” (Elder). To effectively solve difficult problems “one must have the desire to do so…Thus the affective dimension, comprised of feelings and volition, is a necessary condition and component of high quality reasoning and problem solving” (Elder).

If a person has a “‘defect in emotion and drive,’” that person can create a “‘defect in thought and reason” (Elder). “In short, the truly intelligent person is not a disembodied intellect functioning in an emotional wasteland, but a deeply committed mindful person, full of passion and high values, engaged in effective reasoning, sound judgment, and wise conduct” (Elder). “The emotions that you experience and the thoughts that drive them, like everything in the Universe, are at their core pure energy” (“The Power of Emotions”).

Emotions are designed to help people become aware of their special needs. Without emotions, people would not know how to make decisions. Our bodies were made to make decisions based on our emotions. In her article “The Importance of Emotions,” Carla Valencia discusses how emotions are the most important factors in making correct decisions (Valencia 1-2). Valencia explains how positive emotions “not only motivate our existence, but also give enjoyment and happiness” to our lives (3). When we express “negative emotions, on the other hand, [it] impact[s] our lives in a negative way” (3).

This affects our decisions because if we “take a decision when [we] feel revenge for example, the results could be dangerous. A negative emotional state leads to a negative behavior” (pg. 3). If people misuse their emotions, it can lead to wrong decisions. The different emotions that human beings feel are important for people to function as social and intellectual beings. In her book The Food and Feelings Workbook, Karin Koenig reveals that: The function of emotions is to tell us about our internal world, just as senses provide guidance in the external world… emotions also] keep you safe and out of harm’s way, steer you toward what’s healthy and life-affirming, and deter you from what’s dangerous and life-threatening. (Koenig “What Is the Purpose of Feelings? ”) Koenig believes that our feelings and emotions show people the “painful” and the “pleasurable” things, so that they can adjust and make proper choices (Koenig “What Is the Purpose of Feelings? ”). In The Food and Feelings Workbook, Koenig argues that people “have a better chance at physical survival if [they] are biologically programmed to be highly sensitive to both pleasure and pain… People] are also programmed for emotional survival” (Koenig “How Do I Know When I Have a Feeling or an Emotion? ”). This explains why we need our different emotions to survive. Our bodies need feelings to affectively interact with our environment. In his book called Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman says that “affect is a vague sensation that may be either conscious or subconscious, but emotion is the conscious experience of such affect” (Norman 55). Emotions are not the result of a forced action; emotions occur naturally.

Karin Koenig agrees with this statement by saying that “feelings belong to our primitive defense system and are rooted in our collective biology and the history of the species. They are neurological, biochemical reactions that happen on a cellular level in response to stimuli. They don’t require thinking” (Koenig “How Do I Know When I Have a Feeling or an Emotion? ”). Emotions are used to differentiate the moral and the corrupt; the wrong and the right. We cannot survive without our emotions and feelings because our different emotions help us distinguish the good things from the bad things. Our emotions help us make decisions. Studies show that when a person’s emotional connections are severed in the brain, he cannot make even simple decisions” (Hein “Emotions- Importance Of; Management of Negative Feelings; Positive Value of”). People whose emotional needs are not fulfilled become depressed which usually leads to their death by committing suicide(Hein “Teen Suicide”). “Teenagers around the world are killing themselves to put an end to their intense emotional pain” (Hein “Teen Suicide”).

Teenagers especially need their emotional needs to be fulfilled because they are at the point where they are developing their “emotional development” (“Emotional Development – Emotional Development During Adolescence”). Their “behavioral problems” are the result of their need to express their emotions (Hein “Emotions- Importance Of; Management of Negative Feelings; Positive Value of”). Our emotions are needed to help us make decisions, to help us be passionate about what we love, and to distinguish us from the rest of the world.

We need our emotions to help us survive in this society, and without our emotions we are nothing but robots roaming aimlessly around the Earth. The stark reality of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is due to the lack of emotions from the citizens. Huxley’s “utopian” society fails because to have a rich existence in a society, one needs to express and have a full range of emotions. Huxley describes a dystopian society with “promiscuous sex, ‘the feelies’, and most famously of all, [the] supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma” (Pearce). Humans need their emotions to distinguish them from other humans.

Their emotions and their personality create their own identity. If everyone was the same like the characters in Brave New World, we would not be able to function. We need our emotions to help us through difficult situations. Because the characters in Brave New World do not have emotions, they do not know how to handle difficult situations. Huxley falsely depicted a “utopian” society emotions and individuality. Huxley’s characters are not credible in that they lack the needed human emotion to make decisions, to create their own identity, to be creative, and to be mentally healthy.

Lenina is one important character who is like all the other citizens in the way that she acts and in what “her” beliefs are. She is taught by the directors and World Controllers that “No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy—to preserve you, as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all” (Smith). In Brave New World, the citizens do not know how to express their emotions because they are forced to be the same. If a person is different, like Bernard Marx, everyone criticizes that person.

Bernard Marx is out of the ordinary and he “hated [Henry Foster and the Assistant Predestinator]” because they talk about “[Lenina] as though she were a bit of meat” (Huxley 45 ; 47). He respects Lenina and perhaps feels “love” for Lenina. This is unusual for an Alpha because they are injected with drugs when they are embryos so that they would not feel these emotions. The citizens are trained to have sex, and to take soma holidays. Bernard Marx is a defect so he actually feels and expresses his emotions which make him unique from the other people.

Marx knows how wrong the “promiscuous sex, ‘the feelies’, and most famously of all, [the] supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma” is (Pearce). Linda is a citizen who was exposed to the outside world. Linda is forced to develop her emotions because if she does not, she will be considered an outcast to the “savages. ” In Brave New World, Huxley demonstrates a false interpretation of a “utopian” society by stripping away the citizens emotions and feelings. In addition to being a false utopian society, this book falsely demonstrates how the world would be like without emotions and feelings.

Steve Hein accurately describes what would happen without emotions. He says that “Our emotions help us make decisions,” and without these emotions we would be making wrong decisions which could lead to dangerous situations. We also use our emotions for critical thinking. The citizens in Brave New World do not have emotions; therefore, they do not have critical thinking skills. We cannot survive without critical thinking skills. Other than helping us make the right decision, our emotions make us unique. Without emotions, we are robots roaming aimlessly through the Earth.

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New World Analysis

The world Huxley creates tells us that the only way a perfect society can exist is to no longer allow humans to believe in supernatural forces such as God and Jesus and to take away the fear of dying and getting old. Thus allowing humans no need for God. The theme of sex is looked at as Lenin tries to seduce John where she only enrages him to strike her naked body. The act of sex been euthanized and made devoid of passion and treated casually and biblically Instead of as a personal matter.

The way Lenin treats sex is Just the way his mother had sex, sleeping with every man she could and this angers John because he wants no part of the world his mother comes from. He wants to live by his own rules and by falling into the arms of Laminas naked body he believes he will have sinned. The theme of power and control Is used not by physical force but by conditioning people to follow the rules, “It Is a matter of sitting not hitting” states one character. Power is a key focus in the later chapters for it shows what must be done to create a Brave New World.

Mustache Mood is the resident world controller of Western Europe. Even though he is one of the seven people In control of the entire world there Is a sense that he Is a slave to his position In life Just Like everyone else. He must control all science that Is given to the public for it can be quite subversive to the society that has been created. Mustache Mood states that “science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. ” Life in the Brave New World is a very straight and narrow path and for It to work correctly everyone must follow the path.

When people start going out of line and creating new inventions to help better mankind it is hindering the absolute perfection they have created. That is why science must be controlled and it only appears as If it is still useful but instead it has been used up to its potential. The literature of William Shakespeare Is brought up various times by John. When he is in the office with Mustache Mood they speak of Othello and how John believes the people should have access to such writings but John doesn’t fully understand that they will not get the story.

Literature becomes a means of finding the self, of rebelling against conformity, and of seeking both truth and beauty, even at the cost of ignorant bliss. Mood shows John his collection of banned religious writings, and reads aloud-long passages from the nineteenth-century Catholic theologian, Cardinal Newman, and from the eighteenth-century French philosopher, Maine De Blear, to the effect that religious sentiment Is essentially a response to the threat of loss, old age, and death. Mood argues that in a prosperous, youthful society, there are no losses and therefore no need for religion..

John believes that the theme 1 OFF when any sign of pain comes over you, you take a pill. They push all of their feelings deep down and after taking their soma are in a way less human. John does not wish to live amongst everyone else and moves himself to a deserted lighthouse to live off the land and suffer with the bare necessities. John inflicts pain upon himself to leans him of his sins. He tries not to have feelings for Lenin but when he visions her naked body he imagines his dead then soon after begins to whip his back to cleanse his lust for her.

The mood in the Brave New World for the most part is ironic and rather Jaded. Both Lenin and John have feelings for each other but both do not know how to express and go about these feeling in a way that works for both of them. The two of them are almost a different species and they show how clear communication is key when speaking with someone of a different kind. It brings out anger in John when Lenin misinterprets his love for her and undresses herself leaving a feeling of angst in the air that makes you worried of what John is capable of.

John later rushes to the hospital for the dying and bursts into tears when he learns of his mothers succumbing death. In the hospital the nurse gets quite angry at John and says”… Of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents? Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry-as though death were something terrible, as though any one mattered as much as all that! ” Through John and his words, the mood seemed somber and terrible. His mother was dying after all. He was horrified and Just wanted to save her.

He did not want his mother to die, which was understandable. On the other hand, the nurse inside the ward was more concerned about the society as a whole. She was worried about the children not being properly death conditioned. She could have cared less if Linda died or not. Her mood was worry, but not for the same reason as John. Surrounding Linda, the nurse set a mood of acceptance and inevitability. She did not even try to help her in her last few moments. Through these two characters, the author is able to convey a differing DOD on the issue of death.

John felt that all that mattered at the time was his mother while the only thing the nurse was concerned about was the 6 months of death conditioning the children might have to go through again. Mustache Mood one of the 7 world leaders has an old collection of books and has read William Shakespeare. All of these writings are banned in the New World and it is quite ironic that this man has a collection of something that could destroy the world he governs. He keeps them locked in a safe Just as he keeps his past locked away no longer in use. Huxley, tells the story Brave New World in a third-person point of view.

This means that the person who is narrating the story has no knowledge and has no access to the different emotions and thoughts of the other characters. He doesn’t play a part in the story, maybe even a stranger to the events. He only describes the characters through dialogues and comprehensive descriptions or by their outer appearance but cannot look into their subconscious mind. He represents the speaker as an omniscient type of person. By writing in this style it allows the reader to make there own Judgments of hat works and doesn’t work in this future world.

The characterization of John and his connection with Lenin and how they both want to be with each other Just in different worldly ideas shows that there love for each other is something out of Romeo and Juliet being from different families or in this case different worlds. Although, it is also something out of a Greek tragedy where John sees Lenin as his mother and wants to be with her solely on that basis. Linda and Lamina’s names are both phonetically similar; looking at Huxley importance of choice of names in his stories we can see the relation. As well certain signs point to Lenin and Linda both being of beta caste.

There are also connections John makes between his mother and his desired lover. In chapter 18 when he keeps thinking about Lenin he quickly distracts himself by thinking of his mom. He is integrating thoughts of Lenin being naked with images of his dead mother. Huxley links the event of Lenin seducing John and Land’s death at the hospital. Land’s death is what takes him away from Lenin sitting naked in his bathroom. Lenin is an expression of his subconscious desire to sleep with his mother. A play by Sophocles [Sofa-I-clean] allied Oedipus [Oedipus] the King somewhat demonstrates this Freudian theory John is demonstrating.

In the play the son accidentally kills his father then sleeps with his mother. Afterwards he self mutilates himself by cutting out his eyes. John tries to kill his father figure Pope and because his mother is dead he cannot sleep with her but instead he very likely sleeps with Lenin in the orgy outside of the abandoned lighthouse. After the orgy he wakes up and covers his eyes yelling “Oh, my god, my god” remembering everything from the night before. John then takes the self- mutilation to the next level and hangs himself in the lighthouse.

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Brave New World and Blade Runner: Concern for humanity and its relationship with the natural world

Welcome to the second session of the “Reach to the Future” student conservation conference. The ethical issues reflected in this graphic are representations of humanity’s interaction with nature in two futuristic literary creations; novel “,” by Aldous Huxley, 1932, and film “Bladerunner: The Director’s Cut” directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1992, a decade after its original. It has been in my experience in my post-graduate study of ethics and nature in futuristic texts, that many composers expose technological advancement and economic pressure as origins of environmental degradation.

However, Huxley and Scott expand this concept, creating imaginary worlds where technology has also caused a loss of humanity and change in ethical standards. But are the concerns of these worlds purely imaginative? Or have Huxley and Scott simply analysed the advancement of technology and consumerism in their own contexts, in order to create a future world that is dehumanised and unnatural? Consider our context Year 12, and welcome to the future. By deliberately contrasting the setting of the ‘conventional’ world state, to the ‘wild’ Malpais, Huxley challenges the humanity’s value in a genetically engineered world.

In Chapter One, we are oriented to the technologically ‘perfect’ world state of “Community. Identity. Stability (BNW, pg. 1) ,” 632 A. F. Imagery like “Cold for all the summer beyond the panes (BNW, pg. 1),” helps to describe that is natural to its inhabitants, but ethically disfigured for readers. However when Bernard and Lenina enter the Malpais in Chapter Seven, we adjust to a world that is similar to ours, yet is deemed “Queer (BNW, pg. 96)” by Lenina, a product of the genetically engineered World State.

A birds eye view, accompanied with sensory imagery of sound, “rhythm of … heart, (BNW, Pg. 96)” and touch, “eagle flew … blew chill on their faces, (BNW, Pg. 96)” produces the contrast that enables Huxley to express that science and stability occur at the expense of humanity. This concern was evoked by his father’s work in science, and also the 1930’s Victorian view that science was developing at the same rate as humanity, later encapsulated in Orwell’s novel “.

To illustrate the erroneous nature of the contextual view, Huxley presented ethics and a connection with nature in a human, but diseased land that has been marginalised due to global advancement. In our context, scientific advancement at the expense of humanity is questioned in creating ‘designer babies’ through IVF. Our ethics, and connection with natural practises are queried when numerous embryos are disposed of in the process of creating one ‘perfect’ human. It seems much too like the marginalisation of the Malpais and nature to create a ‘perfect’ society in the World State of BNW.

Similarly, a contrast of scenes is used in Bladerunner to illustrate Scott’s concern that consumerism is a primary cause of inequality in humanity and nature. The atmospheric setting in the opening montage illustrates a pervading darkness, with fearful synthetic sounds and a high camera angle zooming down onto the streets of fiery urban decay titled “Hades, Los Angeles, 2019. ” The bird’s eye view, like in BNW presents a dystopic vision, soon contrasted when Deckard visits Rachael at the Tyrell Corporation building. As Deckard’s lift ascends, the camera scales the building from a slight angle of depression.

The rain and lack of natural light is replaced with a golden glow, and once inside, musical director Vangelis ensures a shift to peaceful wind chimes which successfully juxtapose the tranquillity of the corporate elite to the dystopic array of the cityscape. , a 1980’s contextual fear is expressed through setting as the essence of the destruction of humanity and nature in BR. The ‘little people’ in Bladerunner, live with the pollution and unequal spread of resources that globalisation has caused.

Similar is our own context, as due to economic globalisation more than half of the female population in Latin America live below the poverty line1. Advanced behavioural conditioning for economic capacity occurs in the World State of BNW, regardless of its effects on nature and humanity, which is another of Huxley’s contextual concerns. After learning of ‘hypnopaedia’ and the ‘neo-Pavlovian’ conditioning of children to ensure an association of pain with nature, the structured juxtaposition of two conversations in Chapter Three further explains Huxley’s concern.

In Chapter Three, the hypnopaedia of the conditioning centre “I do love flying… new clothes,(BNW, pg. 43)” is reiterated in Huxley’s narration, “The voices were adapting … future industrial supply (BNW, pg. 43). ” This is further expressed in Mond’s teachings as he states “under production… a crime against society. (BNW, pg. 46)” Through structure, Huxley’s concern that manufactured goods are deterring humanity’s interaction with nature is unequivocal. Contextually, Huxley is criticizing the era of Fordism and the loss of values experienced in post WW1.

Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motors, initiated an era of of goods in the 1920s, advancing society’s consumerism. Ford and economists grasped the level of spiritual emptiness apparent after WW1 and suggested purchase as a method of relief. Huxley witnessed human behaviour change as the appreciation of nature was noted as disadvantageous for industry. Huxley’s concern advanced to Scott’s era as well as our own where globalisation and mass production are the basis of our economy.

Furthermore, our current level of technology allows many to live without human interaction, and much human behaviour involves expenditure, not the conservation of nature. Like structure in BNW, Symbolism works in Bladerunner in illustrating behavioural conditioning as detrimental to human behaviour, a concern that continued from Huxley’s era to the 1980’s. In the opening sequence, a long camera shot places our focus on a symbol of consumerism, epitomised by the ‘geisha’ Asian woman ‘pill popping’ on an animated billboard.

When considering BR’s setting, the continual reappearance and placement of the billboard on a skyscraper, Scott typifies consumerism as holding precedence over nature and humanity in Los Angeles, 2019. This consumerism symbolises the rise of the Asian trans-national corporations of the 1980s which was feared as an economic form of communism. The world was constantly reminded of the benefits of purchasing yet was rarely informed about the state of the environment which led to the considerable level of environmental degradation, including acid rain.

Today, most developed countries have signed treaties regarding the environment. For example, the ‘UN Kyoto Protocol’ urges all developed countries to reduce their Greenhouse Emissions by 5% every five years starting from the year 2008. However, the lack of ratification of this treaty, our material world, and the inescapable nature of advertising are still threats to our environment and also to the natural behaviour of human beings in the year 2004. Each character in BNW has a definite purpose in Huxley’s warning about humanity’s detachment from the natural world.

However, Mustapha Mond further explores Huxley’s notion by also articulating the loss of humanity’s values in a scientifically advanced setting. Mond is the mouthpiece of the World State, devoid of human values and thus his expressive dialogue and mannerisms clinically justify a society where everything can be standardised, mass produced and therefore stabilised. In Chapter Three, Mond talks with the students about families and the plight that emotional freedom caused in times before ‘Our Ford.

Mond devalues emotion as “reeking (BNW, pg. 35),”and describes natural reproduction, families and monogamy in language “so vivid… one boy… at the point of being sick. (BNW, pg 32)” Dismissive nonetheless, Mond is merely encapsulating the change in human behaviour that scientific advancement has caused, and therefore communicating Huxley’s concern. As Huxley toured Europe before completing BNW, Mond is modelled on post WW1 dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini.

His personality also portrays the loss of values and spiritual emptiness experienced by many people in post WW1. In BR, Deckard is devoid of human values like Mond but unlike ‘John the Savage’ from BNW, it is a replicant with no connection with nature, who exerts human values in Bladerunner. The rise of robotics in the 1980’s influenced the character of Batty, and also Deckard. Batty exemplifies the ‘human robot’ that science dreamed of in the 1980’s, whereas, Deckard symbolises the loss of humanity that ethicists feared because of robotics.

Roy Batty’s “more human than human” genetic allows him to exert , evident in his quotations of Blake “fiery the angels fell… their shoulders roared,” and to exert physical duress, but only in the course of his four year life p. In the last scenes of the film, Batty’s heightened and desire for emotion and life surpass his genetic limitations casting him as a Christ figure and also a fallen angel as he looks fruitlessly to his creator for a sense of meaning.

With his final words, ” … ost like tears in the rain,” Roy is cast as a tragic , and allows Scott to illustrate that when there is no longer an environment to exploit, like in the world in LA, 2019, those who possess desirable qualities will be oppressed, this ultimately leaving the world more inhumane. In our context, the empathy we feel for Batty, questions our ethics, asking what makes us human. Huxley skilfully satirises the social construct of the 1930’s using ‘Soma’ to express his concern for the conditioning of humanity against nature.

The World State in London is a strangely benevolent dictatorship through Mond, where all aspects of an individual’s life are determined and controlled by the state in the name of, “Community. Identity. Stability (BNW, pg. 1). ” Another way to ensure stability is the encouraged use of the mind-numbing drug ‘Soma’. In the Malpais, Chapter Nine, Lenina “embarked for lunar eternity(BNW, pg. 127) ” on an eighteen hour soma holiday to escape the reality of nature and humanity. ‘Soma’ satirises the post WW1 regimes of Totalitarianism throughout Europe.

The doctrine of Totalitarianism denied people intellectual stimulation, freedom of thought and a relationship with nature. Huxley introduces ‘Soma’ to show a future world where the denial of a relationship with nature can be self induced. In BR’s 1980’s context, severe industrial pollution and urbanisation resulted in the detachment of people from nature In 2004, though Totalitarianism is a violation of basic human rights, many people choose to deny themselves’ a qualitative relationship with nature by choosing to live in environmentally isolated, but grossly populated urban areas.

The use of contextual irony in Bladerunner is contrasting to the use of in BNW as Scott’s irony questions the ethical behaviour of humanity regarding technology. In the 1980’s, robotics and were the result of technological advance, and robots were promised to take the place of humans in the workforce. In Bladerunner, Ridley Scott epitomises technology and humanity through the Nexus-6 Replicants, who are “more human than human” Human beings in Bladerunner live as second class citizens in desolate, socially inept conditions as we see J.

F Sebastian and Deckard both living in . Humanity in 2019 has no sense of the value of interaction, and consequently Ridley Scott placed the capacity for these human qualities in the Replicants. Ironically though, when the Replicants begin to show human emotion and need, such as Batty’s need to ‘meet his maker,’ they are ‘retired’ by the human, by ultimately inhuman character, Deckard. This irony illustrates Scott’s concern for a scientifically advanced world, with a dismal appreciation of human qualities and value.

The same concern is expressed in the 1997 futuristic popular culture film, “Gattaca,” where your personality is irrelevant as genetic composition guarantees an you an occupation. Huxley and Scott have established quite a few concerns for our future. Strangely though, they have also warned about issues that are in need of conservation now. Again, close your eyes and imagine the natural world that you want in the future. Consider our context year 12, and help to create an ethically harmonious world for the future.

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Informative Essay on Brave New World Essay

In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the citizens of the World State are bred into specific caste systems. These consist of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The different caste systems differ from each other in many ways, and have multiple purposes. There are many differences between the different groups in the caste system. Alphas are the most intelligent of them all. They wear the color grey, and are the tallest and most good looking. While developing inside the faux womb, they were given the most oxygen.

They usually work as wardens, psychologists (Bernard), Director of hatcheries, and all World Controllers are Alphas. Betas are a little less intelligent then Alphas, but still higher in the caste system. They wear mulberry colored clothing and there jobs consist of mechanics and nurses. Alphas and Betas usually associate with each other. Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are in the lower half of the cast system. Gammas wear the color green. They are usually butlers and other jobs that do not consist of much thinking.

Deltas wear khaki, and usually are helicopter attendants. The are mass produced and have no individuality. “Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability! ” (Huxley, 7). This being said means the the World State does not think individuality is important. Epsilons are on the verge of being morons. They wear black, and received the least amount of oxygen in the womb. They are very stupid and usually press elevator buttons. The purpose of this cast system is that people will be happy with their jobs.

An example is that an Alpha would have a job in the medical field, and an Epsilon would have a job pressing buttons. “Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. “(Huxley, 60). You need every caste system to maintain ‘the perfect World State’. I personally do not think that they reflect an aspect of our society today. I think it is just a consequence of the society of the World State. In the end, everyone needs everyone. The Alphas and Betas could not survive with out the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, and vice versa.

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How Accurate Is Huxleys Vision of the Future.

Back To the Future In a world where people have sex all the time, take drugs to make themselves happier, and have no parents to tell them what to do, they have fun all the time. Huxley’s vision of the future sounds like a college kids dream. Huxley’s vision in his novel, Brave New World, […]

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John the Savage’s New World

Brave New World Essay In Brave New World, John the Savage willfully exiles himself from the reservation, where he was born and raised, in order to travel to the new world; because of his passion for learning and this twisted idea of becoming happy through his acceptance. Aloud Huxley has written a novel where the main character experiences a type of exile that is tragically unalienable while being beneficial.

John’s experiences in the world state were enriching; however, they were even more alienating and they ended up being so potent that it eventually pushed John to his early demise. John’s exile was stimulating because of his discovery that truth and happiness are incompatible. He is faced with the idea that he will not be completely accepted by others because of how he is unlike anyone in the utopian society. His self-value was based on how others perceived him, his exile allowed him to see that his value should not be found in others.

Upon their arrival to the World State, Bernard begins to parade John around to the other citizens in order to gain popularity. John recognizes the fact that the imaginary happiness that he has created for himself In he new world is fake, he decides that he “rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness” that Bernard has from his newfound social status (Huxley 179). John becomes disturbed by the culture; he begins to accept the fact that these people only want to meet him because of how different he Is from them.

John’s exile was educational and allowed him to see veracity; however, his outcast was even more destructive to him because of how It shatters his beliefs, the way It Isolates him from the citizens in the world state, how he feels that he was contaminated by their society, and overall It distances himself even further from anyone from either of his two worlds. His newfound perspective altered the manner he Interpreted everything In Its entirety and unfortunately his transformation of viewpoints Is for the worse.

In an argument with Mustache Mood, Mustache claims that John Is “claiming the right to be unhappy” and John responds by defiantly agreeing with him and saying that he Is In fact “claiming the right to be unhappy’ (Huxley 240). John and Mustache have separate Ideas of what happiness Is. Mustache thinks “happiness Is a hard master – particularly other people’s happiness” (Huxley 226). He chooses to pursue political power over scientific truth, Mustache genuinely believes In the system of the World State; he’s not compromising his values, he’s fighting for them.

John, however, believes that happiness Is found with the Individual and he freely admits that he hates the way that this new collocation Is systematically run. Brave New World portrays a society that has been designed for Idealistic happiness and not the Individual. Everyone values their own entity over their happiness, as John the Savage’s exile enlightens the audience; and the lack of Independence In Huxley evolve strikes a certain fear of this kind of society Into the reader. Huxley society Is one that Is constructed from standards that would not be deemed as moral In this day and age.

John the Savage’s New World By griffin recognizes the fact that the imaginary happiness that he has created for himself in people only want to meet him because of how different he is from them. John’s more destructive to him because of how it shatters his beliefs, the way it isolates him society, and overall it distances himself even further from anyone from either of his two worlds. His newfound perspective altered the manner he interpreted everything n its entirety and unfortunately his transformation of viewpoints is for the worse.

In an argument with Mustache Mood, Mustache claims that John is “claiming the right to be unhappy’ and John responds by defiantly agreeing with him and saying that he is in fact “claiming the right to be unhappy’ (Huxley 240). John and Mustache have separate ideas of what happiness is. Mustache thinks “happiness is a hard master – particularly other people’s happiness” (Huxley 226). He chooses to pursue political power over scientific truth, Mustache genuinely believes in the system of the World State; he’s not compromising his values, he’s fighting for them.

John, however, believes that happiness is found with the individual and he freely admits that he hates the way that this new civilization is systematically run. Portrays a society that has been designed for idealistic happiness and not the individual. Everyone values their own entity over their happiness, as John the Savage’s exile enlightens the audience; and the lack of independence in Huxley novel strikes a certain fear of this kind of society into the reader. Huxley society is one that is constructed from standards that would not be deemed as moral in this

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