Wednesday, April 22, 2015
chapter 5
Bernard goes to his Solidarity service day and he has to sit next to a girl he does not particularly like. They have to sit boy girl boy girl and they end up having an orgy. Bernard is afraid that he had sex with many people but he doesn't remember. They took a lot of soma and it was like ecstasy.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
chapter 4 notes
Bernard and Watson started to question the society.
They fear their own individuality which is what the society wants so that they are all the same. The society doesn't want them to be anything but happy and know that they are only supposed to think certain things. They are questioning their creativity and reasoning. There was a conflict between the children that follows orders and the others that question.
They fear their own individuality which is what the society wants so that they are all the same. The society doesn't want them to be anything but happy and know that they are only supposed to think certain things. They are questioning their creativity and reasoning. There was a conflict between the children that follows orders and the others that question.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Brave New World Chapter 3 Study Questions
1. How do the children play together? What is childhood like?
The kids are taught to do sexual things with each other at a young age.
2. How is our world depicted? How do we get from here to there?
We are always looking for the next best thing whether its technology or not.
3. Why must games be so complex in this society?
It is about consumers and getting more into things and getting more humans.
4. Why are strong emotions dangerous? Family relationships? Romance? Religion? Art? Culture?
They want them to always be happy and these things dont necessarily add up to happiness.
5. How is sexuality used in this novel? Do you see any problems with it?
It is used as play time and for fun for the kids. Kids should not be learning this let alone doing it until way later on in their lives.
6. What does Mustapha Mond do? What is his relationship to history?
He is the leader of London and he decides the history facts to tell and not tell.
7. Is there anything unusual about Lenina Crowne? Bernard Marx? What? Why?
She is different than most because she has been with one guy for longer than a month. They are told to share. Bernard is weird because he is small and alphas are not normally small and have low confidence.
8. How does Huxley use the cinematic technique toward the end of this chapter?
He uses short sentences.
9. What is soma? What are its uses?
A substance that takes the stress away from/of being unhappy.
10. How do people age in this society?
They die young while looking young.
The kids are taught to do sexual things with each other at a young age.
2. How is our world depicted? How do we get from here to there?
We are always looking for the next best thing whether its technology or not.
3. Why must games be so complex in this society?
It is about consumers and getting more into things and getting more humans.
4. Why are strong emotions dangerous? Family relationships? Romance? Religion? Art? Culture?
They want them to always be happy and these things dont necessarily add up to happiness.
5. How is sexuality used in this novel? Do you see any problems with it?
It is used as play time and for fun for the kids. Kids should not be learning this let alone doing it until way later on in their lives.
6. What does Mustapha Mond do? What is his relationship to history?
He is the leader of London and he decides the history facts to tell and not tell.
7. Is there anything unusual about Lenina Crowne? Bernard Marx? What? Why?
She is different than most because she has been with one guy for longer than a month. They are told to share. Bernard is weird because he is small and alphas are not normally small and have low confidence.
8. How does Huxley use the cinematic technique toward the end of this chapter?
He uses short sentences.
9. What is soma? What are its uses?
A substance that takes the stress away from/of being unhappy.
10. How do people age in this society?
They die young while looking young.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Chapter 1- Brave New World
Why are they creating so many twins? Is it a good thing? Would it help? Nowadays we are overly populated so this would not do us very much good. Creating all kinds of twins is like creating robots almost. They could create many embryos at one time with using incubators and other machines. Is that human? It is mass production of humans practically.
my modernist
I chose T.S. Eliot because he talks of psychology and of love and those to things interest me.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
To be human
What's your idea of human? What makes you human? Humans are the only extant members of the hominin clade, a branch of great apes characterized by react posture and bipedal locomotion, Manuel dexterity and increased tool use. (Human-Wikipedia) I know I am human because I lie and have feelings. Animals in a way can get called human as well, but they were not from ape ancestors. Robots can not breath, can not feel and can not love. Humans have a huge thing about love to where we believe in soulmate a and the one and only.
We all love someone whether it's your parents or family or it's a significant other. Robots can not love they do not have the feelings or emotion to love. They are simply made to be smarter and not make mistakes. Humans, all we do is make mistakes and do not think all that much most of the time. " You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, nor saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person forever....connections are made with the heart." C. Joybell C
Robots can not feel for they do not have a heart. They have a mind and that's all; to solve math problems and make things faster. To be human is to be breathing, loving, and feeling unlike a robot. If I was a robot I would not be able to say that I have been in love or that I care. Whether I'm descended from apes, or how ever you want to put it, I am human. Are you?
We all love someone whether it's your parents or family or it's a significant other. Robots can not love they do not have the feelings or emotion to love. They are simply made to be smarter and not make mistakes. Humans, all we do is make mistakes and do not think all that much most of the time. " You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, nor saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person forever....connections are made with the heart." C. Joybell C
Robots can not feel for they do not have a heart. They have a mind and that's all; to solve math problems and make things faster. To be human is to be breathing, loving, and feeling unlike a robot. If I was a robot I would not be able to say that I have been in love or that I care. Whether I'm descended from apes, or how ever you want to put it, I am human. Are you?
book comment
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
- This books seems kind of like today in the sense that we focus a lot more of our time and lives to technology. The society in this book is relatively corrupt in a way in the sense that a lot of things are unimportant.
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