Sylvia McCleary 10/29/2014 English Comp 121 Compare and Contrast Essay Final Draft Aldous Huxley’s Book vs. George Orwell’s Book: Infinite Distraction or Government Oppression? By: Sylvia McCleary Imagine a world where people are developed in factories‚ or a world where people just disappear for breaking the “mold”. This compare and contrast essay on Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s philosophies and prose. Both authors created fictional worlds; Orwell’s focuses on government oppression
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Benares Aldous Huxley Himself the most subtle and intellectual of modern writers‚ Aldous Huxley in his essay Benares presents satirically the disillusionment in social life. This essay mirrors the empty lines of the Hindus and their loss of the old cultural values. The glance at the middle class conventional morality is scaring and pitiless‚ while the mass literacy of the crowd becomes an obsession. As the
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Discuss critically the ways in which the machine is treated in ‘Modern Times’. In 500 words your critique of ‘Modern Times’ must describe and comment upon specific scenes in the film. In the film ’Modern Times’ written and directed by Charlie Chaplin‚ he attempts to keep up with the ever changing and improving modern‚ industrial society. The machine in the film is a new invention and concept‚ one that is unfamiliar to the workers. Characters struggle to keep up with this mechanism‚ as it does
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Keats tells us that truth is beauty and beauty is truth. Wilde tells us that all art is useless. Huxley shows us that‚ “Where beauty is worshipped for beauty’s sake as a goddess‚ independent of and superior to morality and philosophy‚ the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.” In Beauty‚ by Huxley we get juxtapositions of these seemingly incongruent ideas. The poem is dense with mythology and imagery
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education of its citizens for the purpose of their individual enlightenment. Huxley‚ in his work Brave New World takes this part of Plato’s utopian society and perverts it in order to indoctrinate the citizens of his state. I will attempt to argue that Huxley uses education by the state to indoctrinate its citizens and ultimately undermine Plato’s theory on education by the state for individual enlightenment. The ways in which Huxley uses education to indoctrinate the individual are diverse. Music or rather
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John Germick criticism on the modern world Huxley satirically comments on the state of the modern world—the world around him in the 1930’s and by extension‚ the future as well. One of the ways that he does this is through use of the caste system. Having a caste system is not unique to the world state. Ancient cultures it to separate the peasants and the wealthy‚ or the rich and the poor. In fact‚ even now society has customised a modern caste system‚ even though people are conditioned to think
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said. "Everybody‚ in here!" Steve’s family ran inside the Kronos time machine. "What is this?" Larry said. "Hang on‚" Martha said as she was pushing buttons on the control panel. "There‚" Martha said. "What is going on here?" Larry said. "What is this room?"
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Aldous Huxley Brave New World Sacrificing Shakespeare in the name of the Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy? Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley‚ first published in 1932 and derived its title from The Tempest‚ a play by William Shakespeare‚ namely from its heroine Miranda’s speech which is at the same time both ironic and naive. Miranda‚ raised her whole life on a solitary island‚ comes to encounter people for the first time only to find drunken sailors and their ship which they happened to wreck
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Huxley and Arnold After reading Thomas Henry Huxley’s lecture “Science and Culture” and Matthew Arnold’s response “Literature and Science”‚ I thought critically about what the two men have said and the basis of both arguments. Huxley emphasizes on teaching physical science because it is a necessity for human advancement. Matthew Arnold counter argues Huxley’s lecture with a few key points. The important concept Arnold mentions is that literature is not just acquiring an exquisite lexicon‚ but instead
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The Time Machine is a Science-Fiction book by H.G. Wells‚ first published by Penguin Books in 1895‚ about the adventures of an unnamed Time-Traveler through time. After reading this book‚ I find that the book is relatively easy to understand‚ save for the introduction of the book‚ which is a rather lengthy lecture about the fourth dimension. The book is equally captivating as well‚ as it gives a highly creative take on the future of humanity. However‚ I also find that the book comes with too many
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