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May 17, 2010 10:39:20 GMT -5
Post by sgalle on May 17, 2010 10:39:20 GMT -5
When we talk about the theme of a work of literature, we are attempting to express some understanding that is communicated in the work. In the case of Brave New World, what would you say is a theme?
HINT: Please try to express the theme in a complete sentence, not as a single word. For example: a possible theme of Romeo and Juliet is not just "love" but "When love breaks boundaries, it ends in tragedy."
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Aug 18, 2010 9:15:24 GMT -5
Post by amancheno on Aug 18, 2010 9:15:24 GMT -5
Brave New World is for sure a complex book, where lots of discussable themes could be chosen. In my opinion, the most important theme was that the development in sciences dont necessarily bring happiness or comfort, and in most of the cases it can do nothing to manipulate the different ways of life. This attempt of a utopian society had suffered through conflicts such as World War I, which lead people to try and make an era of peace. Peace in this case, became having total control over feelings, helped by some kind of medicine called "Somma". Also, they tried to avoid suffering by avoiding everything that is beautiful in the world, including literature and precious steps of life such as childhood, puberty and adolescence and growing old. People created a brain wash system, which they call sleep-teaching, that consisted of rhyming phrases practically inserted in the population's minds, for them not to live through mistakes, but from the system called hypnopaedia. These and many more aspects of life such as maternity where controlled in the society, but there was still people who wanted to feel, who wanted to learn naturally, who wanted to be free. An example is Helmholtz, who himself asked to be sent to an island, and of course, the savage, who had minutes of bravery in which he tried to free all the rest of the people. Even though our world its not perfect, I would still fight like John to keep it just like it is at least in most aspects, having the liberty to grow step by step, with childhood, puberty, etc. Learning from my mistakes, having the right to love my parents, my family, and friends, knowing what all of that means. Those are absolutely precious aspects of our lives, and I think I wouldn't be able to live without them.
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Aug 20, 2010 15:09:49 GMT -5
Post by mbparedes on Aug 20, 2010 15:09:49 GMT -5
In Brave New World I learned many important themes that are extremely significant in real life. In my opinion, the most important theme was that in life we don’t need things such as technological tools or scientific perfections to be happy. I learned that in life sometimes we need and want to suffer or have problems because living in a perfect place where there are many rules and expectations and everything has to be perfect must be really boring and horrible. We as humans need to have some types of problems to improve ourselves in many ways and to learn from our mistakes. Things like scientific developments cannot give us happiness or a perfect life because a perfect life is not based on perfection but on learning from mistakes and fighting for what you want even though if it is hard. This utopian community lived through many conflicts so after suffering they were looking for peace and perfection. They practically drugged the citizens and choose a "perfect" way of living by manipulating them or suggesting them how to behave by doing this while they slept. Everything was controlled in this community and many great things of life like literature or history were suspended because they didn’t want people to compare this new way of living to the past. The theme of this novel made me realize how great life really is.
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Aug 20, 2010 23:08:39 GMT -5
Post by eaguilar on Aug 20, 2010 23:08:39 GMT -5
Brave New World offers themes that are very significant to nowadays world. Basically, what I think the author wants to teach to the readers is that technology and science do not bring the happiness that everyone wants and obviously, needs. Using science to reproduce people, taking away any possible human behavior, making people feel a certain way and trying to block their minds from real things that bring happiness such as love, friendship, sorrow and past memories in order to bring social stability is absolutely unacceptable. In this novel, Huxley tries to show the effect science and technology have on people. The Utopia that the scientists in the book tried to find only turned into dystopia. Being drugged in order to stop feelings that normal human beings should experience is most definitely, not perfect. What this novel taught me is that yeah, technology does bring good things such as medicine, fun and discoveries that help society. But if we go back in time, WAAY back, when people didn't have a Blackberry or iPhone on their hands all the time, they were still happy. They got used to dying young from terrible diseases and having to do everything by themselves. No microwaves, no electricity, no stoves, no television, no radio, no nothing. Now, it is as if it would be NORMAL to have an emotional crisis if we forget our phones at home. Or if our internet is being repaired and we won’t be able to use it for a few days. Life is much more than facebook notifications. Life is about feeling, growing, maturing, loving, laughing, suffering, crying and believing. Technology won’t ever replace feelings.
Emilia Aguilar from 11th "C"
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Aug 25, 2010 14:55:46 GMT -5
Post by sgalle on Aug 25, 2010 14:55:46 GMT -5
Let´s not forget about textual evidence! What evidence can you use to support your comments about theme? What specific examples can you find?
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Aug 27, 2010 10:57:47 GMT -5
Post by Mateo Saenz on Aug 27, 2010 10:57:47 GMT -5
Brave New World offers a wide range of themes that are connected to society. I can say that the most important theme is the excessive use of technology and science in society. In Brave New World the state uses technology to control people by conditioning them to work in different things and environments. They also want economic and social stability. This can tell us the dangers of science and technology when used to control every aspect of life. Individuality and freedom are lost and everyone is the same. Important feelings such as love are trying to be vanished. The world has become completely materialist. The society that the state is controlling is a total lie. We have to be very careful when managing technology and science or they will consume us and end with the things that are really important such as the feelings and thoughts.
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Aug 27, 2010 10:58:58 GMT -5
Post by msaenz on Aug 27, 2010 10:58:58 GMT -5
Brave New World offers a wide range of themes that are connected to society. I can say that the most important theme is the excessive use of technology and science in society. In Brave New World the state uses technology to control people by conditioning them to work in different things and environments. They also want economic and social stability. This can tell us the dangers of science and technology when used to control every aspect of life. Individuality and freedom are lost and everyone is the same. Important feelings such as love are trying to be vanished. The world has become completely materialist. The society that the state is controlling is a total lie. We have to be very careful when managing technology and science or they will consume us and end with the things that are really important such as the feelings and thoughts.
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Aug 29, 2010 17:32:31 GMT -5
Post by chiri20 on Aug 29, 2010 17:32:31 GMT -5
One of the majors and most important theme on this book is the use of the new technology tocontrol an entire society, today and in the future technology has a high power and this power would continue growing in order to satisfy human necesities, and I think this is fine, but to use technology as an abuse to human society is extremely dangerous and a wrong, they control people even on its reproduction, humans are created as if they were mass, they also use technology in order to change people minds such as the entretainment machines, in order to achieve utopia. I think that the use of technology for controling the society is the major theme of the book, and I think that this could be the future of the world, if the world enters in a huge war again.
Jose Antonio Chiriboga
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Aug 29, 2010 19:27:23 GMT -5
Post by gvizcaino on Aug 29, 2010 19:27:23 GMT -5
i think one of the most important theme this novel gave us is what it could happen in the real world. Is very important understand the idea of how technology will improve in sometime and everything will be about this science that would conquer the world entirely. There are so many possibilities that people will use this kind of way out of poverty, problems, wars a perfect world without love or other kind of feelings.
gabriela vizcaino
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Aug 29, 2010 20:55:44 GMT -5
Post by camilacruz on Aug 29, 2010 20:55:44 GMT -5
The main theme for me is that creating a "utopia" with science and technology, brings totally opposite results. I think the world we were presented in this book is far from being perfect. Maybe it has stability and comfort, but at what price? Humans are mass produced and all the natural things of life are taken away. There is no family or maternity and humans are brought into the world like some other lifeless product. They grow brainwashed, without experiencing anything new as they grow up, and they are hypnotized to believe things without any freedom of speech or thought. They don't have any real purpose in life or any dreams to achieve. They don't have to go through anything hard because they can take somma and everything will be fine. I think that the author is trying to tell us that as the world advances and technology does the same, we are going backwards. I think that Aldous Huxley wants to warn us of what would happen if we forget about the things that really matter. The capacity to love, to have a family, to learn, to forgive, to try to accomplish what we want, to endure problems, to suffer, to change, that is what we really need. Camila Cruz
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Aug 29, 2010 21:15:35 GMT -5
Post by acevallos on Aug 29, 2010 21:15:35 GMT -5
In Brave New World we can found extensive range of ideas of themes that are talk in the book. Personally I believe that the most important theme in the book is the employ of technology to be in charge in controlling the society. In the book the World state control the community with new discoveries of technology. One example is the firm manages of reproduction which includes technological intervention as well as medical in order to stabilize the population. One method which the employ of technology acted was the Bokanowsky process which makes the ovaries to proliferate creating thousand of twins; the Posnap technique is also a technique of technology to control society to create castes in the community. I believe that the most important technology employ to the society to be able to control them was the hipnopedia conditioning because it was the greatest socializing force to be able to make people believe in what they wanted them to believe.
Andrea Cevallos
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