Well, that was definitely a different book… Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but it’s just not my type of book I guess. Just glad it’s over! Anyways, in my Brave New World essay, I’m leaning toward writing my essay on how the present day world is similar and different to the novel. In some way, I want to add that the world in Brave New World reflects the way our world today may start turning into. I will do this by describing and analyzing the many ways in which people in the novel are controlled and explaining how these are related to ways we are controlled in our current world. Some questions I wish to address in my essay are, what is Aldous Huxley’s warning for our society about allowing the government to control our ideas, and is any of the fantasy in the novel now reality? Some of my ideas I wish to consider are history and literature in the Brave New World, conditioning methods, drugs, and absence of pain and discomfort. Furthermore, my overall purpose for my essay is to convincingly argue that Brave New World describes what actually could happen, has happened, or is happening by linking happenings in the modern world with specific events and ideas in the novel.
As my examples, I want to use Sir Ken Robinson's youtube video, and Brave New World Revisited by Huxley. I would use Sir Ken Robinson’s video to pin point the similar things in today’s world to Brave New World, definitely that of the educational system. I would use Brave New World Revisited to describe what Huxley was thinking when he wrote it, the purpose of why he wrote it, and help me make the point that I am making when writing my essay.
Well, that’s it! Hopefully I write a good essay this time! :P
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