Julian Huxley

The novel When We Wake by Karen Healey is a captivating story that shows the author’s view on what the world will be like in one-hundred twenty years. The novel explores Healey’s view on the selfishness of mankind, and the fact that people will do almost anything to get what they want, including sacrificing our own planet. The author showcases this theme by presenting it throughout the description of the setting, the unveiling of the plot, and the development of the characters. The story takes…

Skynet from Terminator, Ultron from The Avengers, and the robots from I, Robot are all Hollywood dramatizations of robotics. These are all extreme examples that tend to strike worry into the hearts of the viewer. Comparing the initial upbringing of these three extreme examples to today’s robots, they are programmed to increase the quality of life for inhabitants on Earth. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is intelligence programmed into machines or robots to overcome challenges. Modern…

Animal Usage in the Military is Inhumane Animals came to this world the same way humans did, with no rights, or obligations. Life is meant to be lived it at it’s finest. Through centuries, humans learned skills to live in the world, to hunt and to love. Humans also learned to hate which caused conflicts between other nations. Humans found a way to use animals as weapons, they trained them to kill and to hunt enemies. According to the article “Animals and World War I”, says, “Over 16 million…

In Robert Sharenow’s The Berlin Boxing Center, the passage listed above describes the theme of being an outsider. The narrator is able to find many similarities between himself and his hero as both of them do not confirm to their worlds. Karl narrates that he lives in a world where his race is oppressed and deemed as useless and inferior. He matures into a strong and intelligent boxer after training with professionals at clubs to divert himself from the constant tension and struggle faced by his…

The globalization as a process of uniting world into one community with different ideologies, religions and cultures is almost defeated. World which was divided into small “atoms” from the beginning by the nature could not be united. According to one of the theories of Darwinism the strongest and biggest one always will rule over the weak and small organisms. The multi-million years of evolution seems do not change it. Nowadays, the strongest countries on the political arena as European and…

In the classic novel “Brave New World” by the 20th century English author, Aldous Huxley, Huxley questions the values and goals of 1931 London through the use of irony and satire to portray a futuristic version of the world in which the social trends of Great Britain and the United States are taken to extremes. The world Huxley writes about, since the setting is still on Earth but an unknown amount of time in the future, is still able to resonate with readers today. Within Brave New World,…

In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the reader is introduced into a futuristic, dystopian society that is built on the remnants of the United States, called Gilead. Throughout the novel, Atwood uses satire to mock and warn the United States of the danger in the strongly held political opinions in the 1980’s, when the book was written. Atwood extrapolates the ideas to their extremes, showing the danger of their acceptance. The absurdity and outrageousness of her exaggerations give the novel…

Aldous Huxley foresaw a number of incredible triumphs in his novel, Brave New World, but it seems that in no point in the near, or even distant future, was liberation for women an attainable goal for him. In fact, despite the dystopic nature of his novel, Huxley instead created a world that is hauntingly similar to our own. ‘Brave New World’ is a second-rate replica of the misogynistic 1930s society that belittled women and gave men an unjust sense of superiority and entitlement. It’s a story…

There aren't many things in life as destructive as ignorance. While we have all heard the saying "ignorance is bliss," the book The Giver by Lois Lowry fully embodies the saying by creating what seems to be a futuristic civilization based on ignorance. The goal of the actual civilization is to have complete equality, but they do this by stripping away the core foundation of what makes people human. The civilization in the book is both a utopia and a dystopia due to the necessity for sameness,…

2.0. INTRODUCTION In this chapter will examine the two major scientific theories that have been very much affected the modern man. The Copernican revolution and the Darwinian revolution made man aware of his littleness in this vast universe. These revolutions have devastated the conventional mental framework in which men had been living happily. His existence in this universe was questioned. This section also will discuss about Copernicus and Darwin, the revolutionists. 2.1. COPERNICUS AND…