Topic: Describe the elements of our real time world that you think relates or doesn't to Huxley's Brave New World.
Our real time world and Huxley's Brave New World have elements that are related and that are not related. The way that our world is related to the Brave New one is how we rate people in our society, ways that the two worlds are different are the control that the government system has over the people in Brave New World the other way the two worlds differ is that fact that children in our real time world are free.
Both worlds place value on how a person is rated or ranked in society, although our real time world does not go to some of the extremes the brave new one does both have a way a demoralizing people based on society. In our real time world we rank people on clothes, cars and how big our houses are all these things are merely superficial things that do not place any type of value on how a person's character is. In the Brave New world children are separated before they are even born into different classes of people, they are not given the chance to break free from the class they are placed into. Both world have a fixation on appearance the color you wear defines the level you are in Brave new world and the brand of clothes you wear in our real time one defines what social class you fit into.
The worlds differ in two main ways, the government system in the Brave New world is prominent in the everyday life of the citizens, in our real time world our government is an invisible had that is meant to guide the citizens and not interfere with the everyday life. Our real time lives are meant to have struggles and we are suppose to fix our own problems with our turning to an over seeing government for help. The Brave New world government is there to control every aspect of citizens lives. The second way that our worlds differ greatly is that our real time world we let our children be free, by this I mean we encourage our children to get as much education as possible. In the Brave New world children are told that history is not a good thing to learn and only certain children get to learn things others are sent straight to work. As a free society we also encourage our children to be curios and ask questions we do not shock them for trying to touch a new thing, as a society we need our youth to become educated for our society to continue to work.
Our real time world is meant to be one that makes people feel like they are free to do what they want and to live life how they chose no one person is stuck doing something they do not enjoy unlike the brave new world which chooses what each person will do and makes them be the same type of person so that their society will stay in the same state they want it to.
I thought your essay was pretty good and I thought it was interesting how you compared what our world deems as high status worthy versus what the world state looks for. Maybe just a few more textual examples (that's probable hard though because we are only on ch 6). Good job!
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