Thursday, December 15, 2011

Final Brave New World Post

1. Would a dystopic society such as the one in Brave New World be acceptable if it meant an end to Poverty,Famine, Disease, etc.


2. Could one single rebellious move of someone of superior intellect who opposes the conformity of the Brave New World society and has a superior caste, such as Helmholtz ,  destroy the BNW Society if he/she wanted to?


3. Which Dystopic society, that of Brave New World, or that of 1984 limits freedom more, which one allows individualism more?

Brave New World Post # 2

1Why would the One-State allow people to go to the Reservation?
When the Reservation is so dangerous, especially to those of higher social castes, why would they be allowed to go there? It is my opinion that it is simply to reinforce their love of their place in the One State as they have not had the misfortune of becoming a savage.  Huxley addresses this question further in saying , "Old men in the past used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking­—thinking! Now-- such is progress—the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think…” (68). This is address the question that wouldn't people feel a greater need to defy the One state to become more free; no, they have been brain washed to the point that it simply reinforces their love of the life styles/  

2. Why did Linda never return back to the New World even ?
Linda at first seems as though it was simply be because she was embarassed about what she had become; however, in the reservation she is getting beaten up and has deteriorated into a drunkard of sorts. Even with the embarassment she would have suffered returning to the New World pregnant she could have easily concealed it until she terminated the pregnancy in some way. Her son was even excluded from the Indian Culture as well. I hypothesize that she never returned back simply because of dim wit and how she felt to ashamed to return. 


3.What are Bernard's intentions in bringing John, the Savage, to the One State? 
Bernard makes it seem as though they purely selfless, but does he have other motivations? It is my opinion that  He has an ulterior motive in that  he wants to embarrass the Director by exposing him as John’s father. John accepts the proposal, but insists that Linda be allowed to go with him. Though Bernard promises to seek permission to take both of them, it seems as though he never comes to asking if Linda may come as well simply because he wants to expose John as the Director's father. 

Sunday, December 4, 2011

the Human League - Don't You Want Me

What is the Subject Matter?
The subject is about a woman and a man who broke up and it points out there different views of the relationship

What is the Difference in the Two Sides of the Story?
The man is extremely desperate in wanting the girl back to the point that he threatens her position and says he can take it all back. The woman takes a calmer side to the story in saying simply that she still loves him, but she just doesn't want the relationship to go on anymore and she keeps it at that.


With Who do you Side With and Why?I side with the woman because she is much more calm about the whole situation and because she simply doesnt want the relationship to go on and longer and thats when a relationship should end. There is no point in continuing it if one person doesnt want to commit any longer. 

Rain on a Scarecrow


What is this Song About?
This song is about the decline of farming in America nowadays 

What are Some Conflicts this Song Might Address?
This song addresses a man defending his farm or a man defending his country as well as the decline of the farming industry. 

Make a Claim about Mellencamp's use of Imagery.
Mellencamp uses his imagery through the line "'Rain on a scarecrow, blood on a plow." to add a dark feeling to the conflicts he is trying to address. 

Make a Claim about Mellencamp's Word Choice.
He uses words with dark connotations to add to the overall message he is trying to send. 

Who Does Mellencamp Seem to Favor? Who does he Represent Sympathetically? What side of the Conflict does he Seem to be on?
Mellencamp seems to favor the farmers as well as represent the farmers 
sympathetically. He is on the side of the Farmers. 




Excerpts


1) The narrator's tone in the first three excerpts is intrigue. In section on he talks about a "a formidable silence hung over the scene" as well as "dark human shapes [that] could be made out in the distance." Excerpts number two expounds upon this intrigue by showing the depth of which this person studied these beings in how "they had bone, muscle, a wide vitality, an intense energy of movement." Other words like "gloomy" add to the mysterious tone; and words like "fierce" contribute to the confident tone. In the last section he mentions how they were"complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages" - finally he labels them as such.

2. The tone of the first paragraph of the fourth section is shock. This is also a change in tones through the change from intrigue to simply shock. He describes the scene as a "picture of a massacre or a pestilence." 

3. One country would manufacture another to put themselves in a position of power over the lesser country or perhaps to gain unity of some sort. 

2 Claims About George Orwell

1. George Orwell saw a Utopia as an impossibility that at conception would spiral into a dystopia.
2. George Orwell liked Burgers