In case you missed the title, this is a freewrite and therefore probably won’t make sense to anyone outside of my head. So in advance I would like to say: My bad!
There are several themes, or questions, that have caught my interest while reading Brave New World. Some of them actually emerged from our Socratic circle last Wednesday. (Thanks, Pavin!) One of them is whether our society today is closer to the New World or the Savage Reservation. Along those same lines, I wonder if which one Huxley’s society was closer to at the time of his writing BNW. He most likely saw it as heading towards the New World, which then raises the question, did Huxley’s writing of Brave New World succeed in inoculating society against certain evils. Exactly what evils are those? And another question that has been nagging at the back of mind since about chapter 3: What gives Huxley the authority to try and correct society. I understand that he has every right to write a book (Haha! “right to write”. Funny.) get it published, we all do. But why should we worry about anything he says? How are we to know that he was seeing the world accurately, that he’s a visionary rather than a crackpot?
My thesis would revolve around the relationship between the societies in the novel and real world societies. I would also place an emphasis on the life and times of Aldous Huxley himself—gathering research from outside resources like (auto)biographies, the encyclopedia, and the internet—in an attempt to see how much the man influenced the work and how that affects the relevence of the novel now.
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Hey girl!!!!!!!! Love your profile, def not run of the mill ;)
ReplyDeleteAnywho, My idea for a thesis is pretty close to some of the ideas you have.
I find it very intersting that Huxley creates these two societies that are so different from each other, but at the same time, they both hold a lot of similarities with our society today... hmmmm, perhaps he was on to something, or perhaps he may be a crackpot, lol...
Oh, and about your ideas on Huxley's time and life, I think that has a lot to do with how and why he wrote the novel. I actually wrote a blog on that a few weeks ago. It doesn't go into super detail, but I definitely touched on that idea. You might want to check it out :) (title has something to do with going back to the future... can't remember exactly, lol)
So, I think you have some good ideas and I can't wait to read your essay!!!
Peace out girl scout!
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ReplyDelete(I tried to write it the way Courtney and I sing it in the song we came up with during pe. I dont think that's how it would be spelled tho lol)
Anyyyywhoooo....Your thesis and the ideas are pretty close to what I have in mind for my essay. (Eventho you probably wont get to see my blog until hopefully this weekend if it decides to work that is. I like your ideas and the question's you asked in your blog. Like the one about the one about "inoculating society against certain evils." This kinds of questions made me think of other questions to ask myself and hopefully the answers will give me good ideas for my essay. So thank you for inderectly helping me with my essay lol.
I think you are onto something here girl. Sooo just make the best of these ideas and with good methods of supporting it, you'll have an awesome paper.
Can't wait to read ^_^
bye cami :P