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Post by sgalle on May 17, 2010 11:02:21 GMT -5
As you read, you may find some quotes that seem particularly disturbing, insightful, interesting, or amusing. Here's the place to comment on them.
Include the quote, the page number(s), and your response to this quote.
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Post by eaguilar on Aug 28, 2010 1:38:11 GMT -5
“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east. . . .” (pg. 259)
This is most definitely my favorite quote. It may sound lame since it is, indeed, the last paragraph of the novel, but it really impacted me the way the author tells us the Savage hung himself. He never really does. We just infer that it happened since the feet turn to every direction, but they obviously need to be up in the air to do so.
Emilia Aguilar
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Post by amancheno on Aug 29, 2010 16:38:21 GMT -5
As you read, you may find some quotes that seem particularly disturbing, insightful, interesting, or amusing. Here's the place to comment on them. Include the quote, the page number(s), and your response to this quote.
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Post by amancheno on Aug 29, 2010 16:59:02 GMT -5
" 'What fun it would be', he thought, 'if one didn’t have to think about happiness.' " (Pg 1770)
To be sincere, in my opinion this phrase was silly and senseless. How can someone have fun, if he or she isn’t feeling happy meanwhile? Most of all, what in earth is actually fun, if you're not able to feel happy? The emotion not only involves feelings, but also states of mind, which bring stability to one's soul and body. Isn't that what they are looking for in this society? I can't agree less with all of the rules and terms in this wannabe-utopia that for me is very far from being it.
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Post by camilacruz on Aug 29, 2010 20:22:27 GMT -5
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." (P.240) I liked this quote because it expresses so well the feelings of the savage. In the "brave new world" they have comfort, no problems that cannot be fixed without soma, and for them that way they are happy. But I think the savage wants to say that you can't be happy always, and challenges and hardship are needed in life to learn and experience everything that's possible. I think he just wants to feel, joy or sadness, it doesn't matter. The savage just wants to experience every sensation he can throughout his life. Camila Cruz
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Post by acevallos on Aug 29, 2010 20:27:32 GMT -5
“Stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability” (pg.42) This quote was definitely the best it describe the type of community where people was living in, and the daily rules they had to accomplish in order to achieve the goal of the World state. Indeed it was also one of my favorites quotes because it directly tell the reader that the world state contemplate a strict Utopia which wanted to stable order in people and differentiate each member of the Identity. All type of work was done by the people in the World State to the welfare of the State. But this wouldn’t be accomplished if the World State in fact wouldn’t have all types of science discoveries to control people to do what they want. The book talked about the secret and virtue of individual stability which make people like their inescapable social destiny. Without a doubt the World state bring me the conclusion of social stability in other quote, “..Every one works for everyone else, we can’t do without any one. Even epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without epsilons. Every one works for every else. We can’t do without anyone...” (pg.64) This quote shows how stability in the community is create by individual stability because it illustrates the rules and the ways of life of the World state, that are told to the members and people of community. According to the book everyone belongs to everyone else making people belong to the community and become stable to it.
Andrea Cevallos
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Post by gvizcaino on Sept 1, 2010 17:19:31 GMT -5
"Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else."
this quote explain everything about the book. It explains that in this utopia were humans are created they depend in someone else. In the book it says that each group of this world depends on some other group. Epsilons were like the most intelligent or the better creation of the factory and everyone depends on this group but as the quote says everyone works for everyone else. These ones work for the world.
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