Essays on Aldous

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

The Theme of Dystopian Society in the works of Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury

Introduction All the three books, 1984 that was published in 1948 and written by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World that was written in 1931, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are the examples of dystopian literature. Dystopian literature is the kind of fiction that offers a negative perspective on the society of the future and the problems which are likely to be faced by humankind as a result of their political, environmental and economic activities. While utopian fiction portrays the future being advanced and prosperous as a result of the improvement of technology that assists them ...

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Career exploration is necessary for any individual pursuing a professional course as it equips them with a better understanding for them to be able to plan their career development. Career exploration enables one to identify the challenges in any profession and the salary scale. As a matter of fact career exploration is considered important by those who want to map a path for their careers. As such it is not a luxury but a critical element in career growth. It enables an individual to pursue a relevant course that will better place them to make significant career progress within ...

The Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, reveals how life and relationships between individuals would be like in the terms of Utopian society. This kind of society requires every individual living within it to look for perfection in life and environment, in which everyone shares the same opinions and beliefs, so there is no disruption within the built system. Just like a normal society, Utopian one consists of males and females, living among each other and developing connections, however, everything in their lives is controlled by the government, so the situation would be different, than in a normal ...

Michael Foucault once said that “visibility is a trap”, which describes the best how panopticon works (Milchman and Rosenberg 18). While Jeremy Bertham’s idea of Panopticon initially concerned only the layout of a prison, the metaphor of his concept shed the light to the methods of power and control in the society. Back in 18th century Bertham proposed to replace physical abuse and torture of inmates by an innovative layout of prison that would allow one watchman to observe all prisoners, which may or may not know that they are observed (Semple 38). Further on, Foucault developed the ...

Modernity refers to the approaches, behavior, and ideas of the post-traditional period. Originally, modernity can be defined as a critique of tradition, and a movement toward a new point of view rooted in new paradigms and insights. Recently, modernity has embodied present-day thoughts and present-day lifestyle. One important aspect that arises from this definition of social change and its impact on human experience is the formation of a newly constructed self-image and identity. In essence, the concept of modernity differentiates the modern person from the traditional individual. Such newly founded freedom in connection to modernity involved an experience and ...

In our paper, we will try to understand and find a correspondence between such concepts as rap and classic poetry. In our article, we hold a point of view, according to which rap is still modern poetry. In any poetry, we find the good and bad, but got used to calling all this stuff the poetry. So there is the same division into good and bad rap. The main “Chief of Justice”, that is, the factor separating rap and poetry into good and bad is time. Until our times, there have been a lot of poems, true masterpieces of ...

Brave New World is one of the novels written by Aldous Huxley and talks much about genetics and soma as a significant scientific issue. The discussion of the novel looks forward to progress in technology advancement that has contributed greatly towards changing today’s society. According to the author of the novel, he believes that the book serves like a satire from the place where he lived. Besides, it serves like a caution and a warning for the upcoming generation once the government is given the control and mandate over the new emerging technologies. Through the use of new technology humans have had ...