BRAVE NEW WORLD IDEAS

Well I personally think it’s going to be a wee bit difficult to write this blog to be 300 words but I will give it my best shot. So I guess here we go…

I’d like to start off and say that our Socratic circle this past week was very informative and I feel that after it I had a much fuller understanding of the text and it helped me to develop some ideas that were kind of forming in my head. An idea that really stood out to me , was the comparision of Bernard and Winston and the similarities that they share. They are both the social outcasts who act like they want things one way, but think in a completely different direction. I might compare them and link it to the discussion of morals that I will mention. Some ideas of mine that were strengthened were the ideas about moral and values in Brave New World compared to those of the 21st Century, and also the question that was presented that I really liked was “Is our society today closer to the lives of the ‘savages’ or the lifestyle of the so called ‘normal people’ in Brave New World?” I really think that I will be about to elaborate on all those ideas because they are such a wide variety that I technically have the whole world in my hands and can relate the book to anything and everything. And to be honest that sort of freedom is all terrifying, exciting and sort of nerve-wrecking.

I really think I’ll end up pulling ideas from three different books: the Bible, 1984 and Postmodernism for Beginners. The Bible I will use to pull moral standards and values from; 1984 I will be able to relate the idea of worshiping and they are similar, yet so different; Postmodernism I’m not exactly sure how I will use this book yet, but I have a feeling that by the end of reading Brave New World I will have plenty of ideas on how I could use it to compare or contrast ideas from each book.

Well I hope that made sense I’m not too sure if it did and I’m way to tired right now to pick it apart. Goodnight bloggers! 