Monday, October 5, 2009

thesis ideas?

I haven’t really thought a lot about what I’d like to write my next essay on, but I do know some key points I’d like to tie into my writing. “Community, Identity, Stability” (7) is an important quote that I for sure want to put in my essay.

Here are some thesis sentences that could possibly work for me:

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, everyone works for the good of society and both the society and the individual benefit.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley creates a parody of our modern culture through his portrayal of drugs and sex in his postmodern society.

In the novel Brave New World, we learn that passion and love can hide in the most obscure and deceiving places. (I would write about Bernard and Lenina’s relationship. How Lenina thinks that Bernard is odd and yet she sleeps with him. I would try to prove that Lenina does have feelings for Bernard, she just does not know how to express them.)

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the people of the society are not happy as we know happiness, but rather numb to all feelings.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley runs from morals, traditions, and truth to modernize the society.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley explores the abstract phenomenon of happiness. (I would talk about; what true happiness is, what identity is, and what success is.)

In the novel Brave New World, it becomes clear that the reproduction of the citizens of this dreamworld is unfair and unconstitutional.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley examines the affect of postmodernism on religion. (If I chose the last one, I would tie in some things I have noticed about lack of religion in all three of the books, and the parallels regarding religion, well, lack thereof. I could use examples such as when Ford replaces Lord in sentences such as "Ford knows", and "Ford no" (139). Also, I could easily quote verses from the Bible on multiple different topics within the message on the postmodern topics.)