Sunday, October 4, 2009

Ok so I have many topics that I would like to talk about in my essay, but I just need to figure a way to get a thesis that covers over all of my ideas. I first decided that I want to write about the use of technology in Brave New World’s society and how it plays such a vital role in the way that the people live their lives. Then I would pull text from 1984 to show how this society contrasts from Brave New World. They are very different because 1984 bands the people from any form of technology and they believe it to be bad and corrupt, while Brave New World is all about advancing in technology. The second idea that I have is to compare Brave New World to Postmodernism and 1984. I believe that in some way Brave New World manipulates their people into doing weird and bizarre things. For instance, Huxley talks about how two people can not be together forever and that they can only have “one night stands” or that everyone has to believe what the government is telling them to believe. This is very similar to what Postmodernism explains about narratives. Narratives are told to a group of people to explain the way they live or do things. In 1984, the government forces people to forget the past and to only believe what Big Brother is telling them. They only know what the government tells them because that’s all they have ever been told. In all three books, the people or the societies are being manipulated into believing different things that the government thinks is true.

My thesis is very ruff because I still need to finish the book and I still need to understand the entire meaning of the overall book.
In Huxley’s Brave New World, she states how the people are controlled by the government and how technology plays an important role in society.