Essay Stuff

Wow. This topic is so broad! I don't really know where to start. I'm thinking about so many different things while reading through BNW I don't know what I even want to write about yet. But I don't think that I can pick exactly what I want to write about until I finish the book. So, until then I'll just throw out some ideas of what I'm thinking about right now.

• Happiness-is it truly happiness? If they are really happy is it okay that the way they become happy is artificial (soma)?
• Bernard-there are so many aspects about Bernard that are intriguing yet confusing. I still need to learn more about this character but I know I want to include him in my writing.
• Grand narrative-what does the society really believe? How is there Ford when this is supposed to be postmodern?
• Savages-why such a stark contrast? What are they trying to say about our culture? The BNW society?
• People-have no value. They're being engineered and altered to create the "perfect" world. Something wrong with this picture? Where are the morals?

So, these are some of the main ideas that I have been thinking about while reading BNW. I don't know which I'm going to choose for my essay but for now I'm mostly thinking of combining the happiness and people one. I think that my thesis would be something like, 'In Huxley's Brave New World people are happy all the time, but they're genetically engineered this way; is this humane or even happiness for that matter?'

The other texts that I would use would definitely be Postmodernism, other people's blogs, and I'm not sure about the other source. I'm sure I'll find one.

I'm sorry this blog is so boring! Haha.