I am so excited to see what my students write on this blog. It will help me to know what they are thinking as they read.
Matthew McAdams
2/26/2015 12:04:39 am
I believe the world depicted in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" relates to the society we live in now. I believe that the relationship between these two worlds is depicted through the usage of pleasure controls people. I also believe that these world relate in the usage of hormones. They use hormones to relax people or to keep them unaware of certain things in that society. I believe we do the same thing to a lower extent in our society today.
Mirta Craft
3/1/2015 11:12:04 am
I agree with you, Matthew a.k.a "Squishy". The society in "Brave New World" does control citizens by the use of pleasures. I also believe that while our society today does do that to people in a lower extent; unfortunately, it may in theory be possible for it to get to the overwhelming level it is at in the book.
James Jolin
2/26/2015 01:12:27 pm
I am pretty enthralled by this novel. The World State is a stable society, but even with the knowledge that they are conditioned via hypnopaedia they still have no qualms with being controlled from birth. I am still in disbelief that there are absolutely no places that have held out from the vision of the World State. There must have been a resistance somewhere that is laying low to live as people once lived. In our society there are the Amish, they forbid technology, so it stands to reason that at least somewhere there are "naturalist" right?
Mrs. Curran
2/27/2015 01:34:15 am
James, I am impressed by the depth of your post. You are on to something. Keep reading and see if your predictions play out. By the way, period 2 says, "You rock!".
Matthew
3/6/2015 12:06:27 am
James i agree with your statement about the resistance. I wanted to believe their was a resistance from the beginning but as i got further into the book i realized there was none.
Abby Mildbrandt
2/27/2015 12:50:11 am
I think that The Brave New World society has its flaws one of the major ones being that the people never get a chance to make strong connections or relationships with other people. In our world, it is human nature to form strong bonds with others, seeing as it is necessary to grow as a person. The World State is wrong in encouraging promiscuity in young people. I think it is important to be sexually aware but to encourage them to go through with activity at such a young age is wrong.
Mrs. Curran
2/27/2015 07:13:47 am
Abby: I too think it is sad that these people in the World State have no real, deep connections with one another. I bet they are lonely but they typically don't feel it because they are either being entertained or drugged.
Khrystin Avila
3/6/2015 12:21:59 am
I agree with you completely. It's disgusting that they would make them sexually active at such a young age but in their society it must be normal.
Stephanie Hernandez
3/1/2015 04:30:44 am
In the novel "Brave New World " by Aldous Huxley there is many aspect we can relate too ,such as losing the importance of real facts and consider unimportant fact to be important . Huxley's prediction on things that used to be important no longer hold the same position, has become a reality. In the novel there is no person or leadership that holds modern society captive. People are free to make their own decisions. Life, in some ways, has become insignificant. Today's society is more concerned with the latest fashion trend than what is going on with politics. People prefer to talk about where the best restaurant is than how to fix the problem of starving children in other countries. This loss of values has added to the deterioration of modern society.
Joselin Onofre
3/4/2015 01:47:52 am
Stephanie I agree with you on how our society focuses on what's the latest best thing out there.
Marco Alvarado
3/1/2015 01:30:46 pm
I think the plot of the novel is very interesting and well specified. It's different from our society, but in a way it is also like ours. The book so far has some interesting topics, and have some realistic moments to where it seems like it can possibly happen in reality. I like how Huxley makes the reader feel like you are in the book.
Matthew Rodriguez
3/4/2015 01:50:26 am
Marco I agree with you on the fact that the book has some realistic moments because there are parts on the book where you could actually picture that happening here on our society
Carlos verduzco
3/4/2015 11:51:31 pm
I agree with Marco that our society is like our time. The book has really intrested info about their society because many of the things they experience can actually happend today.
Brenda Ruiz
3/3/2015 09:27:35 am
The society depicted by Huxley in "Brave New World " is one filled without emotion. The people are literally manufactured to be cold hearted and go on with what the world state tells them to do, think, and speak. Children grow up without the mere since of what it feels to love someone, in their society "everyone belongs to everyone". I would not like to be part of this society. I am to much of a thinker that I feel I would likely be sent to Iceland like Bernard was going to be.
Alondra Aguilar German
3/4/2015 02:19:52 pm
Brenda I agree with your point of view on this book. I also think that I could not live in a world of oppression. In a world where you can only think and act according to what they want you to be. The book is really dark, but at some point it is telling the truth of how our fire might be if you we do not change
Abby Mildbrandt
3/5/2015 02:35:20 am
I too agree, there is no possible way that I would fit into a community that does not allow me to be an individual. I think that your assessment of Huxley's "Brave New World" is very on point and in no way is similar to our society.
Marco Alvarado
3/5/2015 06:20:55 am
I have a similar opinion, I too believe everything is depressing in this book. The world in this book is very generic.
Daniela Vacio Pena
3/5/2015 06:33:03 am
I totally agree with you Brenda about the focus of the book. Also, this book makes me think how our world is different from Brave New World. I also agree with you that I don't want to part of a society like the book.
Benjie Rosario
3/5/2015 11:46:41 am
I have a similar opinion about this book too, but I feel that there has to have been more people who thought just like Bernard did. So that means there is probably other harsh punishments for those who are "too far gone" than Bernard other than Iceland
Nick Driscoll
3/6/2015 02:38:58 am
I also agree that being apart of that society would be quite depressing due to not being your own person and/or being able to think for yourself. Living a bland life without emotion, would take away the purpose of life.
Joselin Onofre
3/4/2015 01:42:28 am
The book "Brave New World" has such an interesting plot. I like how Huxley describes the plot and makes you realize on how the society is very different but has some similarities to our society. This book has caught my attention and I enjoy reading it.
Megan Peterson
3/4/2015 01:57:15 am
I agree with you Joselin this book is very interesting and it does relate to our society at the same time it is also different
Anthony Trejo
3/6/2015 12:43:00 am
I agree with your statement because there are clear similarities of us becoming like their society. For example people are blissfully ignorant in the book just like some people in our society
Matthew Rodriguez
3/4/2015 01:45:09 am
This book is very interesting. It makes me think on how their society has many differences from ours. But at the same time our society has some similarities. Would it be possible that our society can end up the same as the book?
Rudy Vazquez
3/4/2015 04:45:46 pm
I would think if our society became like "Brave New World" many of the people will rebel and have a feud to what society will mean to other people of this world and will probably not like to be raised in test tubes
Brenda Ruiz
3/5/2015 06:21:03 am
I believe our society has already reached, in some way, that of the world state. Our society controls most of the things we do or things we like, just think of the advertisements that we are thrown.
Megan Peterson
3/4/2015 01:55:02 am
I believe that this book gives females a bad rep. It shows that well men in this book can sleep around without consequences the females have to take the soma and deal with all the other partners of the man
James Jolin
3/4/2015 03:53:45 pm
I disagree with your assessment of the female condition as observed in Brave New World. Men are are not the only ones who may sleep around, but women are just as frivolous. They do not take soma to cope with the multiple partners the men have as they too take part in the debauchery, very willingly might I add. The soma is just a additive to make whatever they feel intensified, almost like an aphrodisiac. My point being that both genders are sleeping about without consequences and this behavior is quite encouraged.
Selena Moraga
3/5/2015 12:36:07 pm
I agree with your statement Megan. When the women in the Reservation beat up Linda for sleeping with their husbands the men do not get punished in any way whatsoever. It should be the other way around. Even though it is wrong what Linda did she did not understand how their society was. She was brought up and taught a different way.
Sabrina Garcia
3/6/2015 12:33:48 am
I disagree with you, I don't feel women are given a bad rep, in this book I feel women and men are more equal then in our society. They treat each other the same, both as objects. And in this society it is encouraged for men and women to look at each other this way.
Alondra Aguilar German
3/4/2015 02:04:20 am
The world that Mr.Huxley paint for us is supposed to be a utopian world, the perfect world where nobody questions the rules, instead follows them. What I view is a world of lies, a world of oppression. That world of perfection and happiness is a world imperfect and sadness. If you analyze the book in depth you will find the horrible world behind the lies. Today's world is not the same at some point, but if we still doing the Sam things as today we may become the same world. Where kids do not have parents. Where women and men do not feel anything for each other anymore and treat each other like objects. If we are a civilized society, then why we hurt so many people, why do we destroy?
Jocelyn Martinez
3/5/2015 10:26:16 am
I agree with you Alondra. Our society has overtime grown somewhat into the world that Huxley depicted in his novel. While reading the novel, I also realized that perhaps we are not that far off from becoming the new world that Huxley predicted.
Gabriela Avila
3/5/2015 11:24:02 am
I agree with you Alondra, Huxley does create a world of lies, inperfection , and sadness. Our society hasn't yet gone into depth with its science or technology to create a place like World State, but it might get close to new inventions which could hurt our world.
Dominic Campa
3/5/2015 05:44:04 pm
I agree with your point of view regarding the prevention of making a World State, as well as promoting world peace. If America promoted parents and teachers(preschool-elementary) to teach virutes and moral lessons at home and in school our youth would be better equipped. An if we actually take note to what we hear and see, because we don't need garbage entering into our bodies through various sources of entertainment
Jose Aguilar
3/4/2015 02:06:38 am
The society in "Brave New World" is very strange and different from our society. The people have no emotions. I am enjoying reading this book it's kind of "1984".
Carlos verduzco
3/5/2015 06:52:48 am
I agree with you because no one cares about other peoples emotion and do what ever they want to them in the book.
Rudy Vazquez
3/4/2015 04:39:30 pm
I believe that In "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley made this have a purpose to make that world seem to have false symbols of happiness and loveless place, just to be programmed to follow instruction of this ideal world people set for people of the world State
Carlos verduzco
3/5/2015 06:50:13 am
"Brave new world" has been really interesting because it shows how their society is really different to our society. In the book everyone does not have no emotion and are told what to do but in today's world we are able to choose are own path on what we can do.
GAbriela Avila
3/5/2015 07:01:42 am
The world that Aldous Huxley creates is suppose to only bring happiness to its people and give them everything they want. However I don't think he gives them everything because he has them controlled and addicted to soma which prevents them from really feeling any type of emotion. He doesn't allow them to think on their own or to be dependent, so in reallity they are not happy because they are being told what to do (follow orders). No one has any any emotional affections for anyone since they all belong to one another, preventing them from falling in love. John prefers to live in a world were he is free and not trapped in a place of vapid people. I would also live in a place were I will actually be free and think on my own.
Melina Ramirez
3/5/2015 10:59:47 am
I agree with you Gabriela because I believe that a person could truly be happy by living in a place where you actually have freedom, and the ability to think for yourself. I also agree with you about the soma and how it prevents the characters from the society "Brave New World" from having or feeling any type of emotion.
Melina Ramirez
3/5/2015 07:17:04 am
The world that Mr.Huxley creates in this book seems to be the perfect world where everyone belongs to everyone, everyone is happy, and everyone follows the rules. In this world people are born different they are born from experiments, from test tubes. Also the people in this world are designed to play a role in their society. In spite of living an easy life where all the decisions are made for you and where you could be happy all the time by consuming free drugs, I think that I wouldn't like to live in this world because I would like to be able to think for myself and make my own decisions.
Jocelyn Martinez
3/5/2015 10:19:12 am
Our modern day society greatly differs from the world that Aldous Huxley has created in his novel, Brave New World, however in some aspects it also is quite similar to the world in which we live in today. For example, in the novel the idea of everyone belonging to everyone else and how open they are about sexual relationships, is something that our society cannot relate to. However, in Brave New World, the World state is also controlling the citizens by telling them what they should believe and that's something I believe is being done by our government, media and forms of entertainment in order to keep us satisfied.
Tammera Magana
3/6/2015 01:22:29 am
I agree with you Jocelyn our society is set to where we don't openly speak about sexual topics due to the fact that it is looked as something dirty. However, I do believe we are similar to the book in the way that the government is somewhat controlling.
Melissa Gonzalez
3/5/2015 10:31:40 am
The type of life that Aldous Huxley has created in "Brave New World" is extremely creative. Based on everything that I have read so far I see some similarities that reflect upon our current society. The use of soma distracts the characters in the book, and the use of the internet and apps distract us humans.
Benjie Rosario
3/5/2015 11:33:57 am
The taxicopter is a difference I see between our world and the world Aldous Huxley created as a kind of funny futuristic idea. It's hard to imagine helicopters flying around as taxi's to the public. I can only imagine how expensive the gas would be for the helicopters.
Selena Moraga
3/5/2015 12:30:51 pm
In the book "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley relates to our society more than we know it. In our society men and women have sex for mostly recreational purposes only and do not have real relationships like the World State. There are many other similarities in the book's society and our society.
Daniela Vacio Pena
3/5/2015 12:48:39 pm
The book "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley has some interesting plots where he wants every one to be happy. Also this society is so controlling that they are told what to do. I don't want to live in a world that is so controlling because I am in independent person.
Dominic Campa
3/5/2015 05:15:58 pm
In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" the citizens are genetically bred and domesticated to follow an immoral society. A society in which the citizens do not have the rights to pick which caste they'd like to be in, which books they'd like to read, where they'd like to travel, what they'd like to listen to, and lots of other freedoms. The constant abuse of soma and brainwashing are what have kept this society strong, in terms of people speaking against the government and themselves. Also, the wide acceptance of everyone belongs to everyone else in terms of sexual pleasure has made a huge impact on the way people view one another, and Bernard phrased it best as "a piece of meat". If we lose sight of our virtues, values, and tradititions could we end up as the citizens of The World State?
Anthony Trejo
3/6/2015 12:19:19 am
The society in Brave New World is overall very interesting. It does seem like our society could possibly lead to where theirs is because we are starting to be ignorant like the people in Brave New World.
Andres Santos
3/6/2015 12:58:07 am
I agree with your statement. People are constantly seeing biased media or knowledge so I beleive we could become like them.
Herman Rivera
3/6/2015 12:58:30 am
I agree with you tipi we are heading towards a society much like a brave new world
Jonathan gutierrez
3/6/2015 01:02:48 am
I agree with you tipi the society in Brave New World is a crazy lifestyle. In our society we are ignorant people. I think it's pretty crazy that you can have sex all the time.
Jose Aguilar
3/6/2015 01:15:23 am
I agree with you that the society in Brave New World is indeed interesting. People in our society are starting to be ignorant like the people in Brave New World.
Khrystin Avila
3/6/2015 12:19:27 am
In the book, "Brave New World" written by Aldous Huxley, from what I have read, this world the people live in is pretty outrageous world that the people live in. I cNt say that I would love to live in this world but I woudnt mind. It seems pretta stable world because everyone plays a role in society and happy with their destiny. the only issue I have with this place is that they have to get drugged up to stay happy
Sabrina Garcia
3/6/2015 12:28:02 am
The world Mr. Huxley creates in the book Brave New World, where everyone is happy and distracted by recreation and drugs. I think that the society in this book has many similarities to our society today. I wouldn't want to live in The World State because I like being able to make my own decisions and enjoy the emotion and attachments in my life.
Herman Rivera
3/6/2015 12:54:32 am
I honestly didn't find the book really interesting I found 1984 more interesting than a brave new world
Andres santos
3/6/2015 12:55:29 am
I believe Brave New World was an interesting book. The concept that people give up their individuality to have a stable society is very interesting to me.
Naim Montoya
3/6/2015 12:56:26 am
Brave New World is a vision of the future where science will, at last, be put full time into the service of our needs. Some of the ideas might seem a little controversial but we must be open minded.
Rene Escamilla
3/6/2015 01:03:44 am
Anthony I agree with you. Today many people are sex fiends. It is sad to know our society is becoming more like the novel.
Tammera Magana
3/6/2015 01:32:23 am
I believe Brave New World was a vision Huxley had on our society and how it would eventually progress to how it is in the book. I do believe that there could possibly be a chance of our world becoming completely controlled and no longer individualized as to how it is in the book.
Nick Driscoll
3/6/2015 02:33:53 am
Aldous Huxley's depicts a world that is run entirely based off of science and technology. Their society is controlled from their upbringing to believe and think they way their society wants them to. A similarity between our world and their world in the novel is that we are all generally controlled by our pleasures. The difference is the extent that we are controlled to, their society is brainwashed entirely, while our society is quite far from that with a similar concept.
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