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.)
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"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.)"
ReplyDeleteI like this idea the most though all were great. This would be a great idea to elaborate on and open up to other ideas. I agree that Lenina doesnt know she obtains certain feeling due to her conditioning to be immune to emotional intimacy as we may know it. I feel that the idea may be to broad and can maybe hold a deeper meaning or bigger meaning. Like emotions can not be conditioned out because they are invinsicble no matter how hard we try to not make them or how different our discourses make us. Things maybe like that would help make this idea a bigger one you know. idk its just a thought:)
You came up with a bunch of good topics all of which I think could go pretty far. One in particular that I think I would write on out of these is this:
ReplyDelete“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.)”
I think this you could really support this thesis with some good strong quotes from the novel. I liked this one because I think you could put a lot of opinion and commentary into it, and really explain all those, “how’s” that Mr. Dominguez was talking about when we reviewed our in class essays. But you’d also have to be careful if you were to go with this subject because it could be easy to stray from you’re original prompt. If you do choose this one, make sure to stay on track and not lose focus. I could see myself writing about this subject and going off on tangents about happiness and forgetting to make the actual novel my biggest focus.
But other that that, I thing you've set up a wide variety of topics that you could explore. Good job.
Jamie...i think your on a good start. Seems like you were able to come up with a lot of topics!
ReplyDeleteI notice you don't have any quotes yet to go with your thesis'. I'd pick the topic you can find the most quotes on and the one you feel most comfotable writing about. If you can't write about it easily its not the right thesis. I can't wait to see which topic you pick. Happy writing!