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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote explains how one must think for themselves and to be true to themselves without the influences of society. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the protagonist Guy Montag to express how human beings struggle to strive for individualism when society influence limits one to think for themselves. He enhances this idea throughout the novel using…

New Athens is symbolic in “Childhood’s End” because it portrays a decaying of a utopian society in which everything seems to be perfect and peaceful. In the book Athens is described as a type of colony in which is “gathered…to build group with its own artistic traditions” (Clarke 134). With that being said the society itself has no concern of getting into war thus, “…no hostility towards the Overlords: we simply want to be left alone to go our own way” (135). This means that New Athens…

Fanny discusses her biggest issue with Lenina, saying, “‘And they say he spends most of his time by himself-alone.’ There was horror in Fanny’s voice (Huxley 45).” There are two important words in that quote: alone and horror. Being alone to Fanny means time to think, it means time that is not being spent on an activity, and it means everything that her conditioning taught her is wrong. She is horrified…

Natural selection means that organisms that have the most favorable traits survive, prosper, and maintain those favorable traits. In the novel The Time Machine ,the time traveller comes up with three theories to how the people of the future evolved. The first theory is that the Eloi are the sole descendents of humanity. He assumes that scientific progress continued to make life easy for humans so much that it made them lazy and less able to survive harsh conditions. The Elois will be the only…

‘good people’, but for a religion to have it’s effects, it needs an institution. It takes a village to raise a child, and so it takes a religious dogma to breed toxic mindsets. Fordianism is that institution, and in Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley uses the psudeoreligion Fordianism to emphasize the need for human kind to have a sense of purpose, and how that can be taken advantage of and satirized in today’s religious culture . Ford is the dominant practice and praised deity in the…

In the society of Fahrenheit 451 they are very different from our society. In their society everyone is the same and no one cares about anything or anyone and books are banned. With today's society we are all different from each other in many ways. We all care for everyone and we are all very smart. Though we aren’t that different from their society either because they have technology the size of a wall and we made a curved 4K T.V.. Since the society of where Fahrenheit 451 takes place…

Hi Jenna, I have to say I agree with your post mostly about the Utopian society vs. a dystopian society. I think that a dystopian society may also take social norms to far through. “The Giver,” a book that showed a society that had such a regard for human rights, economics, natural disasters, and social norms, it became a dystopian society because it was far too perfect. So the opposite can be true too. We should not fall to far down that rabbit hole that we forget how to question people or…

My main claim is that we do need non-conformist in our society. Non-conformist are needed so society and the world we live in can change. This includes inventors that have made powerful impacts in our world and community that are non-conformist. In fact, Thomas Edison could have been known as a non-conformist for inventing the light bulb. Furthermore, Albert Einstein a genius that did not graduate high school, but invented the atomic bomb. As I have stated, nonconformist are needed in our…

characteristics of Mankind, in this “utopia,” are incomprehensible to the mechanical creatures that inhabit this brave new world. If, then, humans are separated from their greatest achievements and most defining traits, are they still fully human? Huxley heavily implies that, by achieving utopia, the human race…

The Brave New World was a twisted society that was ruled by six dictators. These dictators were controllers who decided everything for everyone. They limited what the people could think, and used a drug which was like a sedative, but that had no withdrawals or repercussions. The controllers would put them through conditioning (brainwashing) where they were taught their place in the society and what they could and could not ask/do or think about. From this hexa-dictatorship and cast system the…