QUESTIONS: Why do you think the author put some appealing characteristics into his hypothetical world?In what ways does Brave New World match (or stray from) the satire model we discussed in class?
The author put some of these appealing characteristic into his story is to let us compare our pleasant world with the world in the book. We can find some of the things that accrue in the book that's actually is happening now. For example, sex is encourage right now through movies, media, advertisements, and even school. The media show how the celebrates are sleeping with so and so through magazines and T.V. shows. Even school encourage sex through passing out condoms to students telling them it is OK, as long as it is safe. This kinda of behavior is starting to be more like the world in the book; encouraging everyone that having sex with everyone is OK. Another example is genetic engineering, in the book everyone is genetic engineer and not born naturally. In the world that we living in now, people are trying to engineer genes so I wouldn't get any disease, so we are also moving toward to having test tube babies.
Brave New World give the reader a negative impression about the future that everybody belongs to everyone else. He tries to make it negative so we will not repeat what happen it the book. Some of the characters in the book are against the idea, so the author is hinting us that we should go against what it is wrong.
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I don't think this book is all negative. But he sure does have a really good point you know. (Huxley) HE points out all the bad things but hey its a lot easier for women in the world in this book. They don't have to go through Labor. Haha.
melody's right, i think the book actually has a positive view but at the same time shows what we have to give up to live in utopia.
its funny that you should say that even our skool encourages sex "as long as its safe". it sounds just about right. and isn't genetically altering genes is what biotech is all about? having test tube babies and all sounds really bad, but its science. we gotta do what we gotta to to survive. if there wasn't such a government in their society, wars would still be going on and we'd kill each other to extinction. (maybe)
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