Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Brave New World Notes (Foreword-Chapter 4)

-Utopia does not mean perfect world 
-Dystopia: literally "nowhere" coined by Thomas More 
-Foreword was interesting because the essay was made to make us really think about the time it was written and how similar it is right now. 
-Writing about imagination is some point not a bad place. 
-Chapter 1 has no sympathy 
-Restatement is important in Chapter 1 
-Influence of science at the beginning 
-Tone: cold & detached & boring & like textbook written 
-The feeling of the first chapter is to get us to keep reading because it was boring 
-Reification: every culture does this, ex-love & god
-Maturity in the book is weird, children are playing sex games?! 
-Maturity comes with age and then maturity is forced upon them. 
-Took away personal feelings, factory made, proto types, creating "people" that are more disireable. 
-Specific set of rules 
-Vision of Utopia is all up to you

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