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.
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Combs you always write legit blogs that make everything so much so clearer! I love how you thought and thought really what a thesis was to you and how you were able to overcome your “writers block.” The way that you really thought into what Huxley thought while he was thinking about the characters was very impressive. I think you really hit the point when you said that the “characters so vivid and varied seems like an interesting topic to explore.” You’re thesis is going to be very powerful and I think you are going to be able to create a good argument. I think you will be able to use good control of your essay and have many points that are going to be able to be proven for all the different characteristics of the characters. I think you have a good thesis and I am looking forward to reading your essay.
ReplyDeleteDang dude you make me look like a fool. Ha no seriously though A+ job Combs. Your thesis is a very interesting topic and probably one I would not of thought of. The characters make this novel what it is just like in most other books. With this topic I believe that you will have no problem relating the characters in BNW and society today. As far as books go you could always include the Bible because its the manual to life and explains everything, and you could also compare the mindsets' of the characters in 1984 to the ones in BNW. You were probably planning on doing that already but whatever. Good job Combs!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you whole-heartedly. We have been conditioned our whole lives to write essays specifically on what the teacher has planned for us. We have never, or seldom, been given the opportunity to come up with our own topic. Therefore, I think all of us are baffled a bit with this new freedom. Your idea to write about the characters is a good one. It is a pretty simple task to analyze how the characters in the book shape it. These characters are so weird that if you choose to write on this topic, it is going to be full of color. Each character is very different from the next. I don’t think people have changed dramatically over the years. The cloths are different and so is the music, but there have always been radical people and there always will be. Ideals have gotten more loose over the years, as there is more sex before marriage and disrespect to parents, but for the most part people as twisted as Bernard or Lenina have always been around. However, the stuff in this book like manufactured children is like nothing in the world today. In addition, I wonder if it would be so horrible to be concerned with productivity more than individuality. Maybe more would get accomplished. You are on the right track with your thesis, but as we read in the Dartmouth Writing Program, it may change a grip of times before you are finished with your essay.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think we are more like the savages today as well. We are more concerned with individuality than productivity. This can unfortunately be seen with all the people who have a warped sense of style because “they want to be individuals”. There are also many lazy workers in America, but our world is way better off than Brave New Worlds. So as of today we are more closely associated with the Savs.