Tuesday, January 27, 2009

1) Reality vs. crazyness

Brave New World has its definite elements of insane assumptions of what the World will be like in the near future. Producing babies in bottles and complete control of an entire World is completely ridiculous. There is no possible way that it could happen. You would have to destroy all human life on Earth and then start all over with just a few people. However, it would not be the same as the novel has described. People that knew of the days when freedom used to exist are still around in this novel. There were no social castes or limits on what one could learn. Brave New World brings a new discussion on what our World would become if such an event were possible.
On the other hand you can see the relation to the present day. Presently we can see that certain children are given the opportunity to excel and become leaders of the world while others do not have the ability to receive the same opportunities due to lack of funds in their family. I wouldn’t say that our government is necessarily holding them back like the novel does, but it does play a factor in the fact that the needy and less fortunate can not give their children the same education needed for them to succeed above and beyond in life. The novel intends to hold certain babies back. Our country doesn’t intend to hold people back, but they make it a challenge for those whom have little money to gain a new place in life. The novel has more unrealistic situations that our World can become than realistic ones. While it was a good read, the scenarios of the novel did seem crazy.

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