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Plz read my breif draft and tell me any ideas or suggestions on what i should do. its due on monday as a in class. we get roughly 40 min
Essay Question: “A significant concern for humanity is its relationship with the natural world and nature’s influence on human behaviour and human interaction. The quality and importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world, or its response to the absence of natural world can vary across different times and cultures”.
Intro
The comprehensive yet inquisitive futuristic prose fiction novel “Brave New World”, written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, can be strongly compared with the sci-fi repulsive world of that in the noir film “Blade Runner- the Director’s Cut”, composed by Ridley Scott in 1992, in the ways how both texts are linked with the natural world.
Not only do both texts share a common link through the dystopia created as a result of the way the world functions, but both Brave New World and Blade Runner also depict that humanity plays little significance with a relationship between the natural worlds.
Nature’s influence on humanity is just as great as humanity’s influence on the natural world. It is shown in Blade Runner how when nature is neglected, it will have an equal and opposite reaction on humanity. Brave New World is much the same, there has to be some control over the amount humanity can control nature, otherwise the society is actually isn’t under control in the first place.
Point 1
Brave New World was written in a long tradition of dystopic works and holds the concerns of post WW1. Huxley was influenced by current totalitarian dictatorships and current values and thoughts of the 1900’s. Brave New World is set in a futuristic world where mass production has become the central element for the creation of a stable, economically and socially advanced society.
By critically examining Aldous Huxley’ Brave New World, it is further shown to emphasise the disparity of two civilisations and the reactions of each society with their relationship of the natural world.
The municipal structured World State “Utopia” controls nature to an extensive degree. Humans have no freedom of choice as their minds are controlled through conditioning; a process in this world where everyone is deliberately trained to behave a certain way. In this case it is to be: fearless of death, afraid of nature, accept their place in society, crave soma and to basically accept the World State’s rules and guidelines.
Natural birth is a thing of the past as science has established a test tube- clone like procedure to create thousands of similar babies. This is known as Bokanovsky’s process.
Pre-birth everyone is placed into one of five caste systems: alpha, beta, delta, gamma or an epsilon. Every caste has a different role in society and everyone has been conditioned and drugged up on soma to accept and appreciate what they do.
It can be seen in these three examples in Brave New World that nature is controlled to an incredible extent. Nature is extinguished from everyone in their pre-birth, producing a distinguishable difference in the world almost immediately. It is shown with humanity’s complete lack of relationship with the natural world, that it is certain to either create vivid and virtually visual advantages or flaws for the World State.
Point 2
Blade Runner stands in sharp contrast to Brave New World. The 1980’s was a period of social unrest and globalisation was growing and growing, giving society reason to question the direction in which humanity is travelling.
Blade Runner is set in a post-apocalyptic world where human technology is so advanced that humans are now “playing God” to create and destroy life at will.
Ridley Scott has created in Blade Runner a film that is driven by technology. Blade Runner presents the issues about the dehumanising effects that technology can have on society as humans could lose their concern for human rights.
“Replicants” (Artificial humans) are used to perform things that are considered to be incongruous to humans. Replicants are deemed to be “more human than human”. The void comp tests whether they really are replicants by asking a series of emotional response questions and focussing the machine on the eye. The only flaw of replicants is that they aren’t emotionally programmed like humans. During the fight between Deckard (a Blade Runner/replicant detective) and Roy (a replicant), Roy refuses the chance to kill Deckard when empathy sinks in Roy’s mind. This example brings up the question: “What does it mean to be human?” as it is now relatively impossible to tell apart Replicants from Humans.
Point 3
BNW- Control is parodied by hypnopaedic sayings, “ending is better than mending”.
Will talk about in the wild and the importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world with direct references to BNW
Point 4
Will talk about in the wild and the importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world with direct references to BR
Show how it is different from BNW
Point 5 and 6
Talk about techniques used to show above points
Point 7
Sum up points and conclusion
Essay Question: “A significant concern for humanity is its relationship with the natural world and nature’s influence on human behaviour and human interaction. The quality and importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world, or its response to the absence of natural world can vary across different times and cultures”.
Intro
The comprehensive yet inquisitive futuristic prose fiction novel “Brave New World”, written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, can be strongly compared with the sci-fi repulsive world of that in the noir film “Blade Runner- the Director’s Cut”, composed by Ridley Scott in 1992, in the ways how both texts are linked with the natural world.
Not only do both texts share a common link through the dystopia created as a result of the way the world functions, but both Brave New World and Blade Runner also depict that humanity plays little significance with a relationship between the natural worlds.
Nature’s influence on humanity is just as great as humanity’s influence on the natural world. It is shown in Blade Runner how when nature is neglected, it will have an equal and opposite reaction on humanity. Brave New World is much the same, there has to be some control over the amount humanity can control nature, otherwise the society is actually isn’t under control in the first place.
Point 1
Brave New World was written in a long tradition of dystopic works and holds the concerns of post WW1. Huxley was influenced by current totalitarian dictatorships and current values and thoughts of the 1900’s. Brave New World is set in a futuristic world where mass production has become the central element for the creation of a stable, economically and socially advanced society.
By critically examining Aldous Huxley’ Brave New World, it is further shown to emphasise the disparity of two civilisations and the reactions of each society with their relationship of the natural world.
The municipal structured World State “Utopia” controls nature to an extensive degree. Humans have no freedom of choice as their minds are controlled through conditioning; a process in this world where everyone is deliberately trained to behave a certain way. In this case it is to be: fearless of death, afraid of nature, accept their place in society, crave soma and to basically accept the World State’s rules and guidelines.
Natural birth is a thing of the past as science has established a test tube- clone like procedure to create thousands of similar babies. This is known as Bokanovsky’s process.
Pre-birth everyone is placed into one of five caste systems: alpha, beta, delta, gamma or an epsilon. Every caste has a different role in society and everyone has been conditioned and drugged up on soma to accept and appreciate what they do.
It can be seen in these three examples in Brave New World that nature is controlled to an incredible extent. Nature is extinguished from everyone in their pre-birth, producing a distinguishable difference in the world almost immediately. It is shown with humanity’s complete lack of relationship with the natural world, that it is certain to either create vivid and virtually visual advantages or flaws for the World State.
Point 2
Blade Runner stands in sharp contrast to Brave New World. The 1980’s was a period of social unrest and globalisation was growing and growing, giving society reason to question the direction in which humanity is travelling.
Blade Runner is set in a post-apocalyptic world where human technology is so advanced that humans are now “playing God” to create and destroy life at will.
Ridley Scott has created in Blade Runner a film that is driven by technology. Blade Runner presents the issues about the dehumanising effects that technology can have on society as humans could lose their concern for human rights.
“Replicants” (Artificial humans) are used to perform things that are considered to be incongruous to humans. Replicants are deemed to be “more human than human”. The void comp tests whether they really are replicants by asking a series of emotional response questions and focussing the machine on the eye. The only flaw of replicants is that they aren’t emotionally programmed like humans. During the fight between Deckard (a Blade Runner/replicant detective) and Roy (a replicant), Roy refuses the chance to kill Deckard when empathy sinks in Roy’s mind. This example brings up the question: “What does it mean to be human?” as it is now relatively impossible to tell apart Replicants from Humans.
Point 3
BNW- Control is parodied by hypnopaedic sayings, “ending is better than mending”.
Will talk about in the wild and the importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world with direct references to BNW
Point 4
Will talk about in the wild and the importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world with direct references to BR
Show how it is different from BNW
Point 5 and 6
Talk about techniques used to show above points
Point 7
Sum up points and conclusion
