A Message from Ms. Nims
"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."
- Ray Bradbury
On the first 3 chapters of Brave New World, some of the vaules of the world state is that no one basically know about the old world. Theres certain things they dont want the "new borns" go otherwise there wouldnt be any stability .By any means Grand wants to keep happiness away . If theses citizens become happy they might overpower him.
ReplyDeleteBased on not many people want to give birth, the children were produced by the Ford company, which giving the children rank in the society (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon), these are the caste for children that producing, and these castes were made on purpose is the World States to be safe "...in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability." These castes didn't give any happiness to everyone, they're getting bore, full of madness, that let them to suicide, and many other problems in that society also killing them.
ReplyDeleteThe values of the World State are pretty different from the values present in many societies today. One of those values would be education, most socities agree that education will get you higher up in society; in the world State education only serves for you to do your job better and not everybody is educated. Another value convaluted to fit is consumerism, in the World State the only way the economy can remain stable is with excessive buying, something that few in teh United States do today since there is only so much you can buy before you fall into debt (never explained in the first three chapters). The final important value is that of humanity, in the World State everybody belongs to everybody and no two people ever stay together for long. From birth till some end people are always partnered with different people, there is little privacy the human expereince for the centuries before is completely forgotten and shunned. With these types of values it's no wonder that this novel had such an impact on early readers, and hopefully won't come true sometime in the future.
ReplyDeleteThe first 3 chapters of brave new world there values of the world state is that the alpha's are more superior there the one's that are intellegent and the epsilon are the lowest ranked there not intellegent and they bascially know nothing. In brave new world they believe that you should not only see one person , you should be seeing multiple people and in our society now we dont believe in that. They also dont believe in family and think its a horrible thing and in our society family is the most important thing you can have.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading the first 3 chapters of "Brave New World" we can see that people put great value in the caste systems, laws, and Ford. Society in brave new world view Ford almost as a religion in the way that they constantly look up to him and talk about him. They twisted his mass production idea into mass production of people in order to create the "perfect society" based on their motto of "Community, Stability, Identity". They are very aware of the laws they must follow and go by them very strictly as we can see when Fanny was telling Lenina that you're not supposed to do anything long term or drawn out. They are also very into their caste system. People are bred to like their position in society so not only does nobody have a problem with how the whole system works, but they actually like their position in society no matter how low they are in the caste system.
ReplyDeleteSo far based on the first three chapters of, "A Brave New World," we can determine that the World State puts a great value on its population and the classes that these populations fall into. From the reading we can see that workers were assigned to different classes based on their job/working ability and in result the whole structure of this new society is categorized within its-self.
ReplyDelete"A Brave New World" has really focused on an assembly oriented beginning. Then it slowly introduced an over-arching idea of consumerism. Together it it implies the society really values capitalism.
ReplyDeleteThen, when we are introduced the caste system, which I find a bit amusing. Capitalism is often associated with free movement between classes; caste systems are significantly rigorous and contrast with the idea of social mobility (often associated with Capitalism). Therefore the society also values structure.
The final thing we can draw about this society is that "everyone belongs to everyone (within the caste)" Doug had brought up the particular scene, and this also prevents negative emotions such as jealousy and possessiveness.
The values of the World State in "Brave New World", as shown in the first three chapters, are mainly sticking to your own caste. And in this society, citizens are easily convinced that they should. From the time they're young, they are taught to love their own caste. Some are more superior to others but they don't care because their society wants to keep it that way. Because if they weren't in these different castes, as far as the World State is concerned, their society wouldn't be able to function.
ReplyDeleteHi, guys. Thank you for your responses. Unfortunately, very few of you included specific details from the text as support. I do not see very many signs that you have read and understood the text. Overall, the quality of responses - online and otherwise - needs improvement.
ReplyDeleteIt is a fantastic idea to comment on others' ideas and build off of them (much as you would in a "live" discussion). It is not, however, beneficial to regurgitate ideas already mentioned. There is a lot in this book, and plenty of points left unmentioned...
Let's step it up a notch!