Aldous Huxley

In this article, Abel compares “Godfather”, “French Connection”, and “Ulysses” to Fukasaku’s The Yakuza Papers. Abel explains The Yakuza Papers as “Sniveling, weeping, groveling, and myriad other abasements of the spirit.” Abel also explains the film as “deeply rewarding for those with the stomach for its kinetic violence; overwhelming in scope and complexity.” A significant understanding though, is Abel’s noting of Fukasaku’s disregard for reflection upon characters: “A dizzying eight-hour…

While there are many things alike between Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World" and George Orwell's book "1984", they are just as similar as they are different. These two books are both dystopian novels giving warnings about the future. They portray a society that if given the choice, nobody would want to live in them. In both novels, the main characters are rebellious against the government and both societies take major control of their citizens. On the other hand, in "Brave New World" the…

Yazid Darawsheh The New World The New World is a historical drama film that takes place in early 17th century Virginia. The Native Americans, including one by the name of Pocahontas, see three English ships coming to shore. The leader of these ships is Captain Newport and below the deck is prisoner John Smith who will be hanged once they reach land. John Smith is pardoned by Newport who believes he will be a valuable asset as they attempt to build a settlement. However, unlike the Spanish…

Imagine a time not dominated by machines and towns. Go back in time to an era of of the real world cast with a fictional tale. That is the scene set in Attila by William Napier. Attila tells the story of Attila The Hun, The one of the most Trenchant villains of all time. The story may be fictional, but the characters and scenery is not. Places such as the Forested Britain, The inveterate Rome, and the frozen tundra of the northernland. In the time of Attila and the Roman Empire, Britain was…

Quoted by George Orwell, authors write to “desire push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s ideas of the kind of society that they should strive after.” It is human nature to achieve an idealistic community, being essentially the “best of the best” as societies progress in history. Erik Carson also implements this as a purpose in his book The Devil in the White City. He described the events before and leading up to the creation of the 1893 World World’s Fair in Chicago led…

Without freedom, maximum potential cannot be reached. What do authors try to achieve by showing this? Does lack of freedom drive people over the edge? Readers are forced to decide for themselves through underlying questions, symbols, and themes. Both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 portray the effects of a society without freedom through these themes: the incompatibility of happiness and truth, the role of knowledge versus ignorance, and the use of technology to…

different types of civilizations. Some write about utopian societies and others analyze dystopian societies. The authors create these worlds in their novel to express their ideas and thoughts of the present and future society. Such is the case with Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World. He writes the novel to display a futuristic dystopian world in which people are not content. The government controls every aspect of its citizens’ lives. To accomplish this, the World State tortures innocent…

Stability." The engineered people of this society follow these qualities to the fullest extent. The procedure of this is achieved and maintained by the community of the people, however, the motto is arguable in the novel. In the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the idea of community, identity, and stability in the World State is proven to be wrong by the experiences of characters and the attempts to achieve their so-called "happiness" in society. All of society in the Brave New World is…

workers just ended up getting poorer and poorer until there was no incentive to work. To fix this problem, Marx came up with “Marxism” which was an economic system that eradicated the entire class system and was self-governed. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley highlights the parallels between the individual and the society and truth and deception. Taking place…

Aldous Huxley explores a “utopian” society in the novel Brave New World. The characters are complex and explored from different points of views. Huxley’s life and influences on his life affected the ideas and themes of his most famous book. Through research of Huxley’s life and looking at John and Bernard from Brave New World, one can come to comprehend more about the book. The plot of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is carried by John’s isolation and his hatred of society because of his…