College application forms typically ask teachers, “Is this student academically curious?” This question is an important one to me because I know I can never cover all of the material I want to share with students in a single school year, and I value the intellectual risk-taking some students pursue beyond my required assignments.
As we read Brave New World, I hope you are curious about this literary classic and want to know more about the ideas it ignites. So assert your intellectual curiosity and search the internet to find interesting/insightful information that connects to Huxley's timeless classic. Post your discoveries to our class blog with the link that takes your classmates to the interesting site you find. Finally, be sure to explain the value of the connections you share so you become the "best of all" intellectual risk-takers!
The novel "Brave New World" is ranked 5th on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
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As I have mentioned in class before, the Arizona shooter, Jared Loughner was mentally ill and for some strange reason, very against government. From looking at his MySpace and Youtube accounts, we have discovered that many of his favorite books listed are the opposite of American beliefs such as Animal Farm, Brave New World, Mein Kampf, etc. It is believed that these books may have contributed to his homicidal way of thinking. However it is a wonder why “Catcher in the Rye” isn’t on the list. It was a novel favored by two other mentally-disturbed shooters: Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, and John Hinckley, who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan.
ReplyDeleteYou can read more about this article at http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0110/Jared-Lee-Loughner-seeking-insight-from-his-reading-list
Possible Reason #2: John wants to sleep with his mom.
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Yes, we are going down this road. In a novel with S&M orgies, sexual propriety isn't really an option. So what we're going with here is that Lenina is John's mother – in a metaphorical sense. Start with their names: Linda, Lenina – notice the phonetic similarities? (Again, since Huxley is so big on names, we can't ignore them at all, ever. See "Character Clues" and you'll know what we're talking about.) While we don't know for sure about Lenina's caste, all signs point to her being a Beta (check out her "Character Analysis" for more info), as is Linda. Both came to the Savage Reservation with Alpha men they were "dating" at the time. Both worked with bottles. Both are material-obsessed and all too happy to fulfill their roles as sexual objects. Linda really is Lenina with years attached.
It's not just us thinking this way; John, too, makes connections (though not conscious) between his mother and his would-be lover. When he can't stop thinking about Lenina in Chapter Eighteen, he distracts himself by thinking about…his mom. He's mixing up in his mind thoughts of Linda's death with images of Lenina naked. Crazy. Huxley connects these two events structurally, too, since Linda's death is what draws John away from the naked Lenina scene, much to Lenina's disappointment. The point we're putting up for discussion is that John wanting to sleep with Lenina is a manifestation of his subconscious desire to sleep with his mother.
This is nothing new. Freud put it all into words, but it goes all the way back to Oedipus the King, a play by Sophocles which lends its name to Freud's theory. In Sophocles's play, a man named Oedipus accidentally kills his father and sleeps with his mother. (He doesn't know that they're his parents. It's a long story. But you can Shmoop it.) Afterwards, when he realized what he's done, he gouges is eyes out and blinds himself. Freud's theory is that every man secretly wants to do this.
John makes a good case. He tries to kill Popé, who is as close as he's going to get to a father figure. Then, because his mother is dead and he can't sleep with her, he (very likely) sleeps with Lenina, whom we've already established as a stand-in for Linda. But now comes the cash-in morning-after moment: "The sun was already high when he awoke. He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered – everything. 'Oh, my God, my God!' He covered his eyes with his hand."
Ahem! "Owlish" incomprehension? He "cover[s] his eyes"? Sounds like Oedipus. We think we've said enough about that.
http://www.shmoop.com/brave-new-world/helmholtz-watson.htm
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ReplyDeleteThis is a comic joke that has a house surronded by microphones and satalites and so on and the outline off the house is all you can see and its just showing that there is no room to slip up in the society because you'll get in trouble for it.
Lenina's name is from Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader during the Russian Revolution.
ReplyDelete- This is interesting because I don't think Lenina is anything like Lenin. She doesn't seem to "rise up" against the society and try and control things like Lenin did.
http://hipsterhitler.com/
ReplyDeleteI found this satirical comic. I think it's pretty hilarious.
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ReplyDeleteToday Brave New World offers a huge inventory of surfboards, skateboards, snowboards and skis, wetsuits and UV protective clothing, boardshorts, baja pullovers, winter outerwear, footwear, sunglasses and watches, even fun accessories for home and car.
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Brave New World Clothing Line...How advertisers use this
http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/genre/elect3/3726/brave_new_world.htm#connections
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ReplyDeleteIn the section context of this website it explains the origins of a lot of Huxleys ideas inthe brave new world. For example in the BNW sex is very casual and common and in Huxely's worldis he is worried by female sexuality freed from pre-war social taboos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisoprodol
ReplyDeleteSoma is a real thing!!!!!
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/brave_new_world.asp
ReplyDeleteThese comics connect pieces of the modern world to aspects and values throughout A Brave New World in a satirical format.
This comic made me laugh because it reminded me of all the people in Brave New World that look the same.
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The Brave New World is similar to The Giver I believe. Here's a link to show my reasoning.
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The movie Gattaca is very similar to brave new world check out this link. http://everything2.com/title/Brave+New+World+vs.+Gattaca
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ReplyDeleteThe above video is titiled, "Brave New Obamian World." This video directly relates to Brave New World because all of our current man made problems: war, cancer, equality...etc... no longer exist in this "obamatopia." It makes fun of a perfect society, just as Huxley criticizes a utopian society.
-Meghan G.
Here's an article relating to facebook. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html
ReplyDeleteIn this satirical peace about drugs they do address some problems through humor, just like brave new world. Also they take the approach toward drugs like Huxley does toward sex. You start to get the since that it is common and not that big of a deal. Kind of like a societal norm.
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Here is an article that explains what is going on through John's head as he is transitioning from the savage reservation to the brave new world and all of his thought are overwhelming. It also shows that he is easy to catch onto things quickly. It also shows Shakespeare with John and how some people think that Brave New World could be a Shakespeare parody of the tempest.
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Here is a game that I found online that was inspired by Brave New World. Here's the link: http://www.huxleygame.co.uk/
ReplyDeleteThis picture that is shown and described is about the Hulk but I see many references to The Brave New World. The artist references a mushroom cloud in the picture which can refer to the nine years war in the book. It has words embedded in the picture that say, “red hot rage” which can refer to John because of his out lashes of this Brave New World, There is also a phrase that says, “… I know who I am…” in the picture. That phrase can be directed in many different directions. One could be their society, each person knows what class they are in and what their function of the community is, it can also refer to John and Helmholtz because they had their own thoughts and ideas and knew who they really were on the inside and did not try to conform to this Brave New Worlds standard of living. To me at a first glance the picture almost looks like a brain also, and that connects to Brave New World because there are so many psychological things going on in the book such as the conditioning and then in the end John’s psychosomatic breakdown causing his death.
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I thought about all the relations between ourselves and the Brave New World and I think we are a lot closer than I previously thought. These negative trends of society include:
ReplyDelete• Existence of different economic classes with widening gap in their economic conditions and social gaps.
• Deskilling of majority of labor force because of mechanization, particularly the assembly like technique, where each workman performed a very limited part of the assembly operation, which was easy to learn and required very little mental abilities or efforts.
• Development of big organization that attempted to train and develop their employees to fit into some limited stereotype images. The concept of cloning in BNW is a grossly exaggerated version of such practices.
• Trend towards materialistic pleasure, particularly more liberal approach towards sex, at the cost of other values such as love and family relationships.
• Development of totalitarian states like that attempted to control whole countries centrally, resulting in marginalization of individuals. Such governments followed philosophies like those of Nazi's and communists that tended to treat individuals as mere cells in a complex organism like a whole society.
• Increasing use of drugs to as an alternative to facing and dealing with harsh realities of the world.
• Impact of culture in shaping the likes and beliefs of individual members of a society. The concept of hypnopaedia presented in BNW is an exaggerated version of conditioning individuals to accept and adopt the common values and belief prevalent in a society.
The society presented in BNW is similar to the present one only in a limited sense. All the characteristics of the society described above are present in modern day to some extent, but nowhere near the levels envisaged in BNW. Also in many areas there is clear indication that mankind has been able to reverse the trend of changes in society in many respects, so I don’t believe that we will ever completely become the Brave New World.
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One of the biggest things that has caught my interest is how Huxley thought to predict the world in the 1930's as he does in "Brave New World" and be significantly close to reality. It's amazing to think about that in his time there was no internet, cell phones, science exploration and discoveries, or such an advancement in technology, yet he was able to think about it. For him to even propose the idea of genetic engineering is mind blowing to me and makes me question what other ideas ran through his head.
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With this little article response I find the most important word to compare the "Brave New World" and today's society to be "choice." To me, that is the biggest difference between the two societies. We have the power to choose what we do and when we do it unlike the people in "Brave New World." Their lives are all predispositions and therefore have limited control over their future and what path to choose in life.
http://www.shmoop.com/brave-new-world/john-the-savage.html
ReplyDeleteThis website shares the connections between John, Brave New World, and other classic works of Literature, such as Shakespeare, and Greek plays.
http://www.timesforgottendvd.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=68
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We've read the book so i though it would be interesting to learn a bit more about the author. Enjoy
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Since Brave New World refers to Shakespeare quite a few times in quotes and its literature, here's a website that connects some of the Brave New World characters with many of Shakespeare's plays.
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My younger brother recently got a game called Bioshock 2 and I played it with him the other night and noticed a ressemblance between it and the Brave New World. In the story line there is a city called Rapture and it has fallen apart but the point of this underwater city was to create a Utopia but has obviously failed. In the game your character must go around collecting a drug called Adam from corpses with the drug in their system. The point of this drug was too better the people and make them stronger, to genetically modify them so they will be happier and more powerful. But the drug begins to kill them because they became to dependant on it and would overdose. Then, there is a woman who has the position of what seems a Queen and is the equivalent of what the conrollers are in the Brave New World. This lady uses the children in this world to collect the Adam from the dead corpses so she can use the drug to further control the civilians of this city.
ReplyDeleteI found there to be multiple similarities between the Brave New World and this game. The controller, the idea of a Utopia, and a drug used to make the people happy. It was all very similar. So here's the link to the games website:
http://www.bioshock2game.com/en/
Brave New World was made into a movie in 1980, you can find it on youtube
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I think the Brave New World could be connected to the movie Baby Geniuses. In this movie, babies are kept in a scientific lab by two scientists so they can be studied and they can attempt to understand their "language." They are kept in order to fund a new theme park and are taught abnormal things for two years in order to do so. They are basically trained to forget any prior, "normal" knowledge. I think this really conencts to the book because both indicate a world where indivuals don't know any different than what they are taught and brought up to be. The babies in the movie are over intelligent as they cross over, hypnotize people, control an entire theme etc. only at two years old. Scientists do this to them in the lab. Just like in the Brave New World, scientists bring babies to life in a lab where they are specifically trained and don't know any different.
The link to the picture shows the babies sitting together in a capsule like thing while the scientists obeserve their actions and them talking in order to try and understand their "language."
The other link simply shows a summary of the movie.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703445904576118032658742632.html?mod=ITP_personaljournal_0
ReplyDeleteThe above article from the Wall Street Journal is, to some degree, related to the brave new world. The brave new world portrays an increasing emphasis on good looks even at an early age, and the article displays a similar shift toward appearances in younger generations. Quite aside from the sickening thought of a mounting desire in children, and especially girls, to adorn themselves with carefully manufactured, glorified mud and related products, the comparison shows a disturbing resemblance between our society and that of the brave new world. Such a likeness between the two cultures raises a number of questions, a few of which follow:
Is our society doomed to become as shallow as that of the brave new world?
Has it already transformed into something comparable?
What can be done to prevent such a metamorphosis?
http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html
ReplyDeleteThis is a link to a website of Aldous Huxley analysing his own work, Brave New World, in 1958, 26 years after it was first published. He discusses many elements in the book including over-population, brainwashing, and hypnopaedia.
http://www.egodialogues.com/words-language/huxley-orwell.php
ReplyDeleteMy connection is not from the internet but to the movie "The Island". In this movie it is very similar to "Brave New World" in several ways. For example everyone is controlled down to what they wear and even eat. The people (clones) are produced in this amniotic bubble until they are fully developed. At which point they are put in the world with several other clones and given the false hope of an island that will make their lives better.
ReplyDeleteIt is different in the fact that the controllers don't want any of the clones to really connect with each other. In fact they don't want them to touch each other.
Here is a list of all of the quotes from Shakespeare that appear in the Brave New World. I find this pretty cool.
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The title of brave new world came from Mirandas speech from the
ReplyDeleteNovel The Tempest. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World?wasRedirected=true JJ
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/dbr/lowres/dbrn423l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/brave_new_world_gifts.asp&usg=__qadjLkvGwZNiYW_HsAak8ZbPlgo=&h=370&w=400&sz=31&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=TUyuPLI0WlUKEM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=132&ei=TZpLTYyJFIWKlwf9n8XSDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbrave%2Bnew%2Bworld%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1579%26bih%3D715%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=125&oei=TZpLTYyJFIWKlwf9n8XSDw&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=42&ved=1t:429,r:34,s:0&tx=86&ty=53 I thought this cartoon parralelled the attitude in BNW nicely.
ReplyDeleteFound the entire 1980 movie: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3536993421073315692#
ReplyDeleteDidn't have time to watch the whole thing, but it's definitely Brave New World.
http://www.americanlegends.com/authors/aldous_huxley.html
ReplyDeleteI thought that this little bio was interesting, because it shows who he was and how he lived life. Then you read Brave New World and see how the characters are portrayed and you can see that some parts of his life were very inspirational for this novel.
Many of you know, Jared Loughner was the Arizona shooter on January 8th, 2011. He had a psychotic illness called schizophrenia and had many different views on issues in the world. Most importantly, he was against the American government. Loughner was a member of Youtube and MySpace and on those sites were listed his favorite books, including, "Mein Kampf," "Animal Farm," "Peter Pan," and lastly, "Brave New World." I now find it a little creepy that we are reading "Brave New World."
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to find out more information:
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/01/09/loughner_book_list
I found this website online that contradicts Huxley's whole idea of stability within the society in BNW and I found it interesting because it really proves Huxley's whole point and motive behind his satirical writing, and is put into words that are quite easy to understand.
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Here's a link pertaining to the upcoming movie you were hoping to learn more about!
http://blog.movieset.com/uncategorized/ridley-scott-talks-about-brave-new-world
And one more link with 7 or so comical cartoons praising Huxley's satire and mocking the BNW ideals. Enjoy :]
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/brave_new_world_gifts.asp
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/904751/aldous_huxleys_a_brave_new_world_the.html
ReplyDeletethis is an interesting article about how Aldus Huxley wrote this in the 1930's, but as time goes on we move closer and closer to the society in the book. Huxley feared that one day machines will control us and that is becoming increasingly true.
http://www.thegiantnapkin.com/adorable_ford_still_making_cars.htm
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It relates to Brave New World, becasue everybody worships Ford, and this article is about Ford making cars.
One connection I made with BNW was with the movie Pleasentville, except in the movie sex is not a celebrated thing as in the book in fact it is frowned upon by all the citizens of the town.
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While reading the Brave new world, I couldn't help but relate it to one book I read in the past. The book Anthem by Ayn Rand reminded me of this book in that they are both about a dystopian society in which the people are discouraged to think for themselves. The similarities are evident in that there is a standout who is breaking laws in order to do what we try to encourage in our society. Our society is the target. Whether these to authors believe in the education system and the way creativity is diminished in our society is clear. The books are very similar and should encourage our society to take a look in the mirror.
ReplyDeleteHere is an article about a mom trying to take Brave new world out of class rooms because it says that Indians are savages.
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I found some good connections between fahrenheit 451 and bnw. They are both working on the "perfect society" but each have imperfections that still keep it from being perfect
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One of the first connections I made towards the beginning of BNW is that they attempt to make people the same and have a maximum number of the same person. This is a more advanced from of the idea of human cloning using stem cells that we have today. One day we may have the science down as well as they do in BNW and society will lose all individuality. http://www.linacre.org/stemcell.html
ReplyDeleteI'm going to elaborate on my earlier post; Hipster Hitler pokes fun at today's subculture known as "hipsters" who strive to be non-conformist and unique but mostly come off as being hyper-pretentious jerks. They paint Hitler as the strongly egotistical hipster and the put him into situations where he feels the need to show what a unique dictator he is.
ReplyDeleteIt connects to the struggle between identity and conformity in Brave New World; the personal desire to be distinctive versus the societal desire to conform.
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/07/amusing-ourselves-to-death/
ReplyDeletethis web site shows the differences from the author of the book 1984 and Brave New World
This website refrences every time the book refrences soma. This is key because it is a catalyst in the destruction of the Brave New World.
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This is a superbowl ad for The Daily, which is the first internet newspaper. It shows Brave New World on the commercial, and I think it also relates to The Brave New World because the internet connects all people. In the Brave New World, all people are connected, which is like the internet connecting all people and reporting news. http://superbowlads.fanhouse.com/2011/the-daily-tablet/
ReplyDeleteThis is a list of all the names of characters in BNW and the meaning behind each of them. This was found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Sources_of_names_and_references
ReplyDeleteBernard Marx, from George Bernard Shaw (or possibly Bernard of Clairvaux or possibly Claude Bernard) and Karl Marx.
Lenina Crowne, from Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader during the Russian Revolution.
Fanny Crowne, from Fanny Kaplan, famous for an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Lenin. Ironically, in the novel, Lenina and Fanny are friends.
Polly Trotsky, from Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary leader.
Benito Hoover, from Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy; and Herbert Hoover, then President of the United States.
Helmholtz Watson, from the German physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and the American behaviorist John B. Watson.
Darwin Bonaparte, from Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of the First French Empire, and Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species.
Herbert Bakunin, from Herbert Spencer, the English philosopher and Social Darwinist, and Mustapha Mond, from Mustapha Kemal Atatürk, founder of Turkey after World War I, who pulled his country into modernisation and official secularism; and Sir Alfred Mond, an industrialist and founder of the Imperial Chemical Industries conglomerate.
Primo Mellon, from Miguel Primo de Rivera, prime minister and dictator of Spain (1923–1930), and Andrew Mellon, an American banker.
Sarojini Engels, from Friedrich Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto along with Karl Marx: and Sarojini Naidu, an Indian politician.
Morgana Rothschild, from J P Morgan, US banking tycoon, and the Rothschild family, famous for its European banking operations.
Joanna Diesel, from Rudolf Diesel, the German engineer who invented the diesel engine.
Clara Deterding, from Henri Deterding, one of the founders of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company.
Arch-Community Songster of Canterbury, a parody of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Church's decision in August 1930 to approve limited use of contraception.
Popé, from Popé, the Native American rebel who was one of the instigators of the conflict now known as the Pueblo Revolt.[13]
John the Savage, after the term "noble savage" originally used in the verse drama The Conquest of Granada by John Dryden, and later erroneously associated with Rousseau.
The connections that I first noticed was the names Watson and Darwin which were names that we learned about in psychology as behaviorists who studied people's and animal' actions. Especially for the character Watson Helmholtz who studies and conditions the people of his world which is a very behaviorist thing to do.
this website describes soma and what it is in real life. (yes, its real!)
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http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/brave_new_world.asp
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ReplyDeleteIn this article I found, BNW is connected to modern society and its relevance in today's society is discussed. I found most interesting a quote from Aldous Huxley himself talking about his visit to America and more specifically California, "Materially, the nearest approach to utopia yet seen on our planet." The article made me think that Huxley was more specifically satirizing American society rather than modern society as a whole.
Aldous Huxley was searching for the perfect drug. His explanation of soma in Brave New World is how he imagined this drug to be in the real world.
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This is significant because if this drug existed today it would almost surely be legal due to the fact it would have no negative side effects. By having a legal yet enticing drug and putting the right tax on it, the nations debt would begin to dwindle.
http://www.bygpub.com/luxury/luxury.htm
ReplyDeleteThis is a website about wealthy people. I was wondering if we are to them what the savages are to Brave New World? The savages have the ability to think for themselves but they can also experience negatively perceived emotions. Those who live in Brave new world cannot think for themselves but they are always in pseudo-happiness. What do we have that they have had to give up too become rich, if anything?
While watching this years superbowl when the 2011 add for the Motorola Xoom came on, I couldn't help but relate the commerical to Brave New World. The Commercial shows a society where everyone is exactly the same. Granite, the idea of the commercial is to be satirical towards apple but the way all the characters are the same creates the allusion of how I picture Brave New World.
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i found this article "Our world - a somalicious place to live in?" to be really interesting because it compares our usage and addiction to drugs to the soma in Brave New World.
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When I thought of things that reminded me of the Brave New World, I thought first of a commercial I recently saw. It's an Audi commercial where in the beginning, everyone likes the same luxury cars because that's what they were taught to like. Then the Audi comes out and "breaks the spell" that everyone is under because it's different. This relates to Brave New World because everyone is taught what to like and not like, or what to think and not think, and one person (Helmholtz) thinks differently. So, all of the people are like the generic luxury cars and Helmholtz is like the Audi.
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The movie "Pleasantville" is similar to Brave New World because the citizens of Pleasantville conform to society, seek only pleasureable things, and shy away from anything that is uncomfortable or against social norm.
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