Brave New World
Brave New World is a science fiction novel that is about a society where happiness has been achieved. The story begins in London some 600 years into the future. The world is run by tenWorld Controllers. Reproduction has been removed from the womb and people are made in bottles by generic engineering. Each human is engineered and conditioned to predestined work. People are made into different levels of intelligence, and everyone belongs to one of five classes. These classes range from Alphas, who are most intelligent, to the Epsilons, who are dim-whitted and are produced to do the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do.
In this society happiness is carried out to extremes. It does it’s best to demolish any painful or undesirable emotions. That’s why the idea of a family was abolished, because it may bring feelings that are unhappy. Also, everyone is used to the idea of death as a natural process, because they were conditioned earlier to accept it as this. As if all this wasn’t enough already, soma was introduced into the society. Soma is a drug that calms people down and makes them forget about any unpleasant thoughts, without the bad side effects that today’s drugs may have.
The story is set in 632 A.F. (After Ford), which begins with Lenina Crowne going to the dressing room after work. There she meets her friend Fanny Crowne (they have the same last name because only 10,000 last names are used in this society) and talks with her. There, they talk with each other about who is sleeping with who since in this society “everyone belongs to everyone else,” they have the right to sleep with whomever they want. Lenina says that she is currently with Henry Foster and has been for four months. Fanny nags Lenina about this and tells her to get another man. So Lenina decides to go with Bernard Marx who has invited her to go with him to a Savage Reservation, which is an uncivilized place filled with poverty, religion, feelings, and individualism.
Bernard is an Alpha-Plus, which is considered to be the highest rank in intelligence. However, for an Alpha, he is short and physically inadequate. Others believe that he may have accidentally received a dose of alcohol in the production stage. He is different than others. Bernard is a bit odd, likes to stay independent and doesn’t have much luck with wome...
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...ortant in the real world. Bernard is then sent to Iceland, and Helmholtz to the Falkland Islands. The Controller wants to keep John for experimenting, but John runs away and isolates himself from society, where he lives like a hermit. When the civilized people come to see him, he joins in with one of their religious dances called “orgy-porgy”. The next day when he wakes up, he commits suicide.
The story’s point of view is the third person, omniscient. This way, the reader can know what’s going on in all the characters’ minds. Huxley’s writing style is fairly easy to read and follow, it’s his complicated ideas that makes the reader think. It is obvious that he had been educated at a very good place because of his brilliantly presented ideas and the use of vocabulary words. Huxley was very creative with the names of the characters. He turned Our Lord into Our Ford (Ford is the God of this society). Also, other names like Bernard Marx comes from Karl Marx, who came up with the theory of socialism. The name, Benito Hoover was taken from President Hoover of the United States. Reading this book felt like I was on a different planet, which was an interesting experience.
The main rhetorical challenge of this ironic essay is capturing the attention of an audience. Swift makes his point negatively, stringing together an appalling set of morally flawed positions in order to cast blame and criticize
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Jonathan Swift is the speaker in the story, A Modest Proposal. He is also the author of many other books and stories. In the text of A Modest Proposal, Swift addresses what he believes to be a big issue in the magnificent country of Ireland, Dublin to be exact. Therefore, he proposes a solution to the problem, however, the solution is not what we would call humane, orthodox, reasonable, or even one that we would consider performing today. Swift wrote this piece for anyone that can read and comprehend what the text implies.
Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is a classic piece of satire written in an attempt to draw attention to a serious problem. He does extremely well in providing proof that his solution will be beneficial and instructions as to how it would be implemented. Overall, Swift wrote this proposal to get the people of Ireland to take their predicament seriously and inspire people to come up with solutions that are sincere and will have a lasting and uplifting effect on the country.
In his satire, A Modest Proposal, Swift utilizes hyperbole and sarcasm to bring awareness of the unacceptable conditions of the Irish poor in the 18th century.
Bernard Marx was alienated from the Brave New World because of his general appearance. As an Alpha Plus, Bernard was unusually short and ugly. Suggested by Fanny, Bernard's condition resulted from an error when he was still in a bottle, the workers "thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood surrogate." Bernard did not fit in the structured order of the Brave New World and was therefore shunned by others. The error resulted in Bernard developing outside the barriers of his caste level.
Humor can come in many different forms. Many people are aware of the blatant humor of slapstick, but it takes a keener mind to notice the subtle detail in sarcasm or satire. In A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift was able to create a piece of literature addressing the faults of the Irish culture while embedding in a humorous essay. Swift’s satire allows for the gravity of the Irish standings to be exploited under the disguise of a proposal for economic benefit.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World illustrates a colorful, fantastic universe of sex and emotion, programming and fascism that has a powerful draw in a happy handicap. This reality pause button is called “Soma”. “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” ( Huxley 54 ).
The issue in Ireland was the economy and the lack of efficiency from the system. People were poor, hungry, and the increase of births created a high demand to feed more mouths. Swift realizing that a change was needed, wrote and published many literary works to get his opinions and ideas to the public. But A Modest Proposal was the most ground breaking and shocking literary work for its time. At the end of A Modest Proposal Swift reveals that his intentions were pure and that his desire was to help the citizens of Ireland. The main point Swift writes about is the lack of food and the hungry mouths to feed. He uses his satirical charm by stating a solution to eat babies. This is an absolutely appalling and horrific idea but it does its job by capturing the reader’s attention. He starts off A Modest Proposal with this idea then later goes into detail expressing the pros and cons of the solution. Swift then reveals the true problem that Ireland’s society faces and expresses an urge to change the system. He then ends by showing that his words can be backed by his true intentions, thus creating a sense of trust to what Swift is saying. Swift’s goal was to capture Ireland’s attention in hopes that they will realize that they need to fix their situation or be forced to find a different food source.
1.) The Savage Reservation is similar to the Utopia world in several ways. They both have drugs that are designed to calm people down. Soma, used in the Utopia and mescal used in the Reservation. They both also have a separation within their own society. The Utopia has social castes and the reservation has separation between the men and women, the men having more power. The two worlds also both have ceremonies. The Utopia has the orgy porgy ceremony in which everyone gathers around and has an orgy, hence the name. The Savage Reservation has traditional dancing ceremonies like the many traditional Indian tribes have today. The two cultures have many similar ideas, just expressed a little differently.
A Modest Proposal is undoubtedly one of the most recognized works of satire. This essay was designed to shock its readers in Ireland. Swift’s goal was to show the people of Ireland just how ridiculous their situation during the famine was. He also showed a great deal of disgust in relation to control. Swift was displeased with England’s control over his country, and how the dominance was being used. However, he showed a greater level of disgust with his own people. This is exemplified when another author writes about A Modest Proposal that
Bernard Marx an Alpha plus specialist in sleep teaching is an example of a character that changes in the brave new word. He changes from a character that symbolized individuality to a character that just wanted to desperately belong to the society. At the beginning of the novel he seemed to be very different from the society, he acts like a rebel trying to battle against the order of things. He seemed to be an “individual” in the first few chapters. For example On his first date with Lenina with lenina he says ” I’d rather be myself. ‘Myself and nasty .Not somebody else, however jolly”(77). He wanted to be something else different from the rest of the society. However we see that his root concern is to be socially acceptable and not really about becoming an individual. In chapter 6 Bernard shows signs of undergoing a change in his character. When the Director summoned Bernard to his office for being unorthodox, Bernard goes on to brag to his friend Helmholtz Watson on his victory over the director when he says” I simply told him to go to the bottomless past and marched out of the room and that was that “(85). We get the sense that Bernard’s victory wasn’t so much about personal integrity as it was social acceptance. Finally, his character undergoes a c...
Jonathon Swift, the legendary Irish clergyman and author penned many a fantastic essays and stories, yet one stands out of the many due to it’s importance and significance in the era it was authored. In this essay, “ A Modest Proposal” Swift introduces his audience to the terrible potato famine that gripped the northern part of the British Isles through his use of irony, sarcasm, and many other rhetorical appeals. Swift’s reasoning for transcribing this paper was to turn the British away from their petty luxuries and show them the the terrible conditions the Irish were facing in their biblical struggle with famine. In Swift’s observation he adopts a satirical persona which he uses to weave his argument into and to also mock both the British and Americans.
This is a very scary society because everything is being controlled even before someone is born, in test tube, where they determine which class they are going to fall under, how they are going to look like and beyond. Therefore, the society of Brave New World is being controlled by society from the very start by using technology which affects how the people behave in this inhumane, unrealistic, society. The people in this community act like they do not have any emotions or feelings at all. This is because from the very start, they were structured in such a way that they could not feel if something is sad or if something is happy. The only thing that they are allowed to enjoy is soma.
In 1729 Ireland was subject to English control, which resulted in the Irish facing famine and poverty. Jonathan Swift was of English decent, yet lived in Ireland, which he considered himself to be a loyal citizen to. Swift cared deeply for Ireland and its people, which motivated him to write his satirical piece, “A Modest Proposal,” addressing in full, the issues Ireland faced. Swift’s purpose was not solely to call attention to these issues, but inspire both the Irish and English to bring an end to the suffering at hand.