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    Claire Conti AP Literature Mrs. Scruggs 29 August 2017 A Savage’s New World In the totalitarian country of London, the people are not subjected to war, hate, poverty, disease and suffering. There is an abundance of wealth, leisure and pleasures, but with utopia comes elimination of freedom and orthodox values. The people in the society are created in factories, then put into a strict 5 class hierarchy. To take the edge off of the harshness of reality, they take a synthetic drug called Soma and drift

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    Ralph awoke on the island and met the Fat Boy, it was apparent that he would be the one to create a system just as the society that he had so unwillingly left behind. At the moment Ralph discovers the Fat Boy, he immediately is taken by his rule oriented personality and begins his conversation by questioning the presence of any adults. Instead of panicking, Ralph stays calm and starts figuring out the situation stating, “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out

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    In Brave New World, Huxley uses a numerous amount of allusions that pertain to the works of William Shakespeare. These allusions help to strengthen the plot and connect readers to the piece. For instance, when John is eagerly awaiting his visit to the civilized world he says, “O brave new world that has such people in it” (Huxley 139). This is an allusion to one of Shakespeare’s plays, The Tempest, where Miranda says the same line when she realizes there are many men like the ones she was rescued

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    Children are our future! When people say “Children are our future!”. That would be right if we really listen to them and change the world before the people who is take away our words and rights away and will to make the world an unacceptable world to live in. We better hope for the best that the adult would let us change the world and make it a brighter place for the future of our children to advance the world and make it better. Brave New World and Idiocracy are satirizing about how we should

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    In the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin, the authors have created characters who symbolize themselves. Huxley’s and Le Guin’s characters have minds that readers can’t understand or comprehend their intentions. Even though their stories were written during two different time periods, you can still see how they use optimism to create their literature. By applying a psychoanalytical criticism, readers can compare the characters in Brave

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    “Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written. Mustapha Mond is one of the

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    Brave New World Analytical Essay In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, satire is used to show how ridiculous modern society was in the 1930s. Huxley refers to a variety of themes, ranging from the decay of morals and culture to drug dependency to brainwashing to others. Huxley also speaks of how the world in the 1930s is getting too liberal, nobody cares about each other, and how if you have a problem you can just take drugs until it is no longer a problem. The main thing Huxley speaks about is

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    The 1920 was a time of major cultural and moral change. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley he uses satire to relate to the society and politics in his time of the early 1920s and 1930s. He describes drug dependency, moral and cultural decay, and alienation by using the following literary devices: connotative diction, and dialogue. Aldous Huxley uses connotative diction to describe many topics in his book. In the quote, “Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consumption, the peace, not of mere vacant

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    pictures we noticed that I was neck deep in water, my dad on my right was waist deep, and my little brother who was the only one that wanted to dip into the water wasn’t even touching it! We stayed on the second largest island Oahu and we took a day trip to the biggest island of Hawaii to see the volcanoes and some other

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    Cormac McCarthy’s brain child “The Road” is a postapocalyptic novel that illustrates the harsh reality of the world. This story serves as a truth that humans, when stripped of their humanity will take desperate measures in order to survive. The reader learns; however even when it seems all hope is lost good can still be found in the world. The son character of this story illuminates this philosophy. He is a foil of his father and shows how even a person never accustomed to the luxury of a normal

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