Friday, July 23, 2010
Brave NEW World??
While I was reading Amusing Ourselves to Death, I really wasn't into the book as much as I should've been, but reading Brave New World, I am really interested in Aldous Huxley's plot. While I'm reading, I am thinking to myself, will life ever be like that in the future? Will we be disgusted when we see the people we are today, in the future? It's kind of scary just thinking if that'll ever happen. Is the NEW world really BRAVE? I don't think so. Because when Bernard and Lenina went and visited Malpais, where people like us are living. They may be more filthy than us and maybe more cruel, but they have a family like us, and have enemies like us. When Lenina saw them, she was scared and disgusted. Lenina so accustomed to the "new world", I wouldn't call it Brave. New? Yes. Brave? Not one bit. The only brave one is Bernard, but he is the one who is "lonely" in the New World. Imagine life like that? I think it will be horrible.
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Well, in my opinion Aldous Huxley did a great job of foreseeing into the future. It is not difficult to imagine our current society turn into a society like the one Aldous Huxley has created in his novel. If our future is anything like Aldous Huxley has envisioned, looking back at the past would be a disturbing site because of our opposing ethics. Just like Lenina was scared and disgusted by the site of the savages we will be disgusted to see the people we are today.
ReplyDeleteWell, Huxley named the book after a Shakespear saying, as you know. I suppose he chose the quote because of a lot of reasons. One reason for the "brave" concept, i suppose, would be that people in that world, to live a world full of Soma, test tube babies, and sleep teaching, must be bold enough not to realize thier faults and how they should change. They are brave to keep moving forward with what they are doing. I mean, i'm not sure i would be bold enough to even live the way they do, would you?
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