Imagine a world that has a drug that was like “lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting” (Huxley 154). Whenever one felt overwhelmed or stressed all one had to do was take the drug called soma. One can have sex with whomever one wants with no emotions attached. Also one has no such thing as parents and one believes in a God named Ford. Ones job consists of working on a machine all day but one never gets bored because they…
PLOT AND STRUCTURE Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a young archaic man is leader to a gang of four mischievous young adults in a future Britain. While skipping school, Alex and the gang, aka The Droogs, spend their spare time beating the homeless, raping women, and stealing along the way. Abruptly Alex ends up in Prison where he begins being experimented on in exchange for an early release. In testing, the scientists try to remove the evil from Alex. After finally breaking Alex down with a visual…
The word Moors derives from the Latin mauri, a name for the Berber tribes living in Roman Mauretania (modern day Algeria and Morocco). It has no ethnographic meaning but can be used to refer to all Muslims, Berber or Arab, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula. These Moors, who were religious fanatics, arrived in Spain in the year 711 and thus began a period of history which would shape Iberia differently than the rest of Europe as the land adapted to a new religion, language and culture.…
Aldous Huxley’s prophetic novel, Brave New World, includes among its many and varied themes the recurring notion of a society that is consumed by material goods and who find pleasure solely in the things that they possess. The inhabitants of the world invented by Huxley are not concerned with waste or sustainability; their main focus is pleasure and the enjoyment of the newest, shiniest, pleasing item to be played with and then discarded as they find a new object to be enamored with,…
Mary Lambert, a popular pop artist, came out with a song called “She Keeps Me Warm” in 2013. The purpose of the song was to show others that being homosexual is a part of the culture in today’s world. It is becoming more accepted, making it easier for people who are homosexual to tell others about it. Mary uses several devices to show others about homosexual identity. She uses examples from her personal religion, lyrics that portray how hard it is to come out, and portrays the shyness of a first…
like them…now it’s time…to save the boobs”. She finishes her parade around the deck, stopping to bend down in front of a man in a pool float and flaunt her assets much to his pleasure. The lone snippet of information pertaining to breast cancer in the orgy of an advertisement is a mere 4 seconds out of the entire minute long video. The screen reads “BREAST CANCER is the leading cause of cancer-related death among young women aged 20-49”, before quickly cutting back to a close up shot of the…
Human genetics have led the way into new techniques of conception as well as embryo growth. Gene therapy has allowed genetic specialists to experiment with embryos in order to attempt to heal congenital birth defects as well as hereditary disorders. Although, the embryo receives nutrients from outside sources, the fetus receives no nutrition from the umbilical cord of a mother ultimately reducing the chances of survival. People who favor the use of human genetics for conception suggest that the…
one. Some people enjoy watching other people having sex through watching pornography. Pornography gives their audience an exciting experience that they can never forget. During the ancient times, countless depictions of heterosexual sex, oral sex, orgies and more had already existed. The city of Pompie perhaps has the largest collection of erotic antiques where excavators found hundreds of sexually explicit images and sculptures lining in the walls of bathhouses and brothels. In the 19th…
Theban people to his cousin. His obsession with sex, money, women, and power all stem from the need to keep his power. The hierarchy that he is apart of has contributed to overwhelming patriarchal need that he has. The bacchants and their mountaintop orgies and raw meat-eating threaten this patriarchy that he finds comfort in. But, he continues to deny the divinity of…
and harsh. He starts drinking and talking about girls with Alfons Beck. Even though he knew it was bad he enjoyed drinking. He expresses his feelings that “In fact it was not most painful, yet it had something, a thrill, a sweetness of rebellious orgy, that was life and spirit.” ( Hesse 74). At this life stage, Emil is experiencing the bad realm and that gives him pleasure. One must experience the bad to get rid of it; Emil is also endeavoring through this situation. He can't find which side is…