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Brave new world Questions. HELP!?
okay brave new world is a very good book I read the book and sparknotes for a better understanding so I'm not asking these questions because I'm to lazy to do them myself, but they're very hard so I need all the help I can get.
1. Look up dystopia or negative utopia, and explain how the concept of "dystopia" challenges the ethics of a society.
2. John savage and Mutapha MOnd discuss civilization in chapter 17. John says two startling things: "What you need is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here," and "Bud I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin" Take the side of Mond and Save and clarify the pints of view of each
3. What is the significance of choosing Henry Ford as "God?"
4. The name John Savage could be considered ironic. Explain how.
5. Though Huxley's brave new world seems less human in the way we are accustomed to living, explain the positive aspects of his society. What aspects would particularly like and why?
7. What is most illogical or improbably about huxley's civilization?
8. Discuss the role of Geligion (God/deities? in this novel.
9. How does John Savage's final impression of his "brave new world" differ from Miranda's exclamation in the tempest?
10. What is the value of human relationships in a scientific world?
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Here are my answers to your questions:
1. A negative utopia is basically like a perfect society, but it is very self-destructive to it's inhabitants and the people in charge control the masses, the masses live under the illusion of peace.
2. Just like in today's society, people are way too comfortable and are basically spoiled brats. People believe in a false religion in Brave New World, which is pioneer of mass production, Henry Ford. In Brave New World, the beliefs of freedom, danger, and goodness have been taken away from the people as they were "created", not born. In essence, the lives of the people in Brave New World mean nothing. One dies, several more replace him/her.
3. Because they believe he is the pioneer of mass production. Mass production of everything is what the society of Brave New World is all about.
4. Because the author wanted to classify anybody who thinks differently as savages that should never be listened to at all.
5. The two positive aspects of the society of Brave New World are these: First, it's extremely controlled and totally automated. Everything is handed to you on a silver platter, you can be as lazy as you want to be. Second, everything is mass-produced, meaning that it is either free or easily affordable to practically anyone.
7. The only thing that could be considered illogical to this society is that humans are "created" instead of born. Everything else in Brave New World seems to have at least one relation with something in our World today.
8. I'm not religious, but Ford replaces God in Brave New World. According to them, Ford pioneered the 1st useful, mass-producible product, the car.
9. I know little about Miranda, as my memory of back then is foggy at best, but the way I see it, John dislikes how automated the society in Brave New World, it lacks action, pretty much like our world today.
10. In a scientific world, I really doubt human relationships are considered at all. At best, to most scientists, humans are just things to experiment on.
Hope that helps you.
- 1 decade ago
Wait, i have the same homework... Are you taking AP Literature in Dinuba, CA? Who are you?
