The New World's Characters

Okay so this week we’re supposed to write our blogs on ideas for our thesis for Brave New World. The more and more I thought about what I wanted to write about the more I got writers block.. Go figure. But anyways I think usually we are assigned a specific prompt centered on one idea. The teacher usually does all the thinking and limits us to one topic, guiding us to what we should write about. Even if we do not like the chosen topic, it at least provides some direction for our writing.

So after thinking about all the things I could incorporate in my essay for Brave New World, the subject I kept coming back to was the characters. The characters are what make Brave New World so interesting and different from our world today. I mean babies are being manufactured on an assembly line, people are more worried about productivity then individuality, and then most children spend their childhood being conditioned. The question I kept asking myself was, “how could Aldous Huxley come up with these characters in 1931?”. Even our world today, in my opinion, is not as corrupt and messed up as the world described by Huxley. How Huxley imagined this “Brave New World”, a dystopia, with characters so vivid and varied seems like an interesting topic to explore.

Reading the information form Dartmouth’s Writing Program provide a lot of help. They’re information about the “Thesis” provided for a clear understanding of how important it is for writing an essay, “And with good reason: the thesis sentence is typically that ONE sentence in the paper that asserts, controls, and structures the entire argument.”

So here’s my thesis statement.. It could definitely be improved and more specific but I have still not read the entire book yet.

In Huxley’s Brave New World, despite the character’s conditioning and impulses toward uniformity, there is something profoundly human about them.