Brave New World Personal Response
Brave New World
Personal Response Writing Folder
English 3U
By: Abdo Elnakouri
b) “But in Epsilons,” said Mr. Foster very justly, “we don’t need human intelligence.” For a society to function, is there work to be done where it would be better that the worker didn’t think?
I think it would be ok if we had robot workers that didn’t think and did boring jobs because they’re not human beings. There would be no problem in my mind to have programmed robots to do jobs that are not fun or enjoyable for someone to do because they are not humans with thoughts and feelings. However I do not think it is ethically right to program a person when he or she is an embryo by depriving it of oxygen, to make them stupid so they are content with …show more content…
Instead of being a horror story Brave new world is a satire as well as a utopian literature. A utopia is an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. Huxley uses this weird and different society to warn us of the dangers of giving the government control over new and powerful technologies and tells us that freedom is invaluable and should never be given up for artificial happiness. Even though the people in the World State don’t have a care in the world they’ve never experienced the ups and downs of life. Huxley exemplifies this and tries to show the extent of control that government has with this totalitarian state with the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the surgical removal of ovaries, the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. Another is the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State’s stability. Soma is a third example of the kind of medical, biological, and psychological technologies that Brave New World criticizes most sharply in an attempt to warn us. Huxley also uses soma in the …show more content…
Being able to contrast the two countries with the different cultures and they different ways of thinking helped me understand more and see things with a bigger picture. I am able to appreciate everything more because whenever I visit Egypt I see how some people are struggling everyday just to stay afloat. This makes you know that people in Canada are very privileged with what they have and that many people in the world could only dream of the basic standard of living that people have here. I am able to think this way and appreciate what I have because I have traveled back to Egypt and other places where there is some poverty while the majority of people are only just moving along. Since I know both cultures pretty I am a different person and I know how to talk and communicate with someone that lives in Canada compared to someone in Egypt because you have to convey your message in different ways to get the message across correctly. Travel opens a doorway for the individual to seek the experiences of the place where he is traveling to and to be open to the absorption and understanding of those experiences. Allowing to take from those to build on and develop. All the small things someone can experience when traveling like seeing a poor house with nothing but a table and chairs to the way people
Personal Response Writing Folder
English 3U
By: Abdo Elnakouri
b) “But in Epsilons,” said Mr. Foster very justly, “we don’t need human intelligence.” For a society to function, is there work to be done where it would be better that the worker didn’t think?
I think it would be ok if we had robot workers that didn’t think and did boring jobs because they’re not human beings. There would be no problem in my mind to have programmed robots to do jobs that are not fun or enjoyable for someone to do because they are not humans with thoughts and feelings. However I do not think it is ethically right to program a person when he or she is an embryo by depriving it of oxygen, to make them stupid so they are content with …show more content…
Instead of being a horror story Brave new world is a satire as well as a utopian literature. A utopia is an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. Huxley uses this weird and different society to warn us of the dangers of giving the government control over new and powerful technologies and tells us that freedom is invaluable and should never be given up for artificial happiness. Even though the people in the World State don’t have a care in the world they’ve never experienced the ups and downs of life. Huxley exemplifies this and tries to show the extent of control that government has with this totalitarian state with the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the surgical removal of ovaries, the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. Another is the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State’s stability. Soma is a third example of the kind of medical, biological, and psychological technologies that Brave New World criticizes most sharply in an attempt to warn us. Huxley also uses soma in the …show more content…
Being able to contrast the two countries with the different cultures and they different ways of thinking helped me understand more and see things with a bigger picture. I am able to appreciate everything more because whenever I visit Egypt I see how some people are struggling everyday just to stay afloat. This makes you know that people in Canada are very privileged with what they have and that many people in the world could only dream of the basic standard of living that people have here. I am able to think this way and appreciate what I have because I have traveled back to Egypt and other places where there is some poverty while the majority of people are only just moving along. Since I know both cultures pretty I am a different person and I know how to talk and communicate with someone that lives in Canada compared to someone in Egypt because you have to convey your message in different ways to get the message across correctly. Travel opens a doorway for the individual to seek the experiences of the place where he is traveling to and to be open to the absorption and understanding of those experiences. Allowing to take from those to build on and develop. All the small things someone can experience when traveling like seeing a poor house with nothing but a table and chairs to the way people