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alex.hapca · Trimis: 17/05/2008 19:05 Titlul subiectului: Aldous Huxley: "Brave New World"

Even if we didn't already present the novel named "Brave New World" because we will on Monday, I am very curious what did you think after reading it.Was a difficult "job" for you to lecture and "record" the main aspects?.There are many things we can learn from it,I think.I confess that at first,when I heard the book's name I thought that it had something to do with war but after I read it I realized I was totally wrong.I hope to read your opinions very soon.If there's something regarding the book you didn't understand I"m here for you.I hope I'll be a great suport for your eventual questions.

ANAMARIA MURESAN · Trimis: 19/05/2008 23:51 Titlul subiectului: Re: Brave New World

THE OPPOSITE OF GEORGE ORWELL'S NOVELS:A DYSTOPIA NOT A UTOPIA .''BRAVE NEW WORLD''PRESENTS US A WORLD OF ANOYMOUS AND DEHUMANIZED PEOPLE.............. I DIDN'T LIKE IT! :no:

Teacher · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Mar/2008 Mesaje: 471

@ Anamaria Muresan: OK, we respect your feelings. Nobody says that all you study in University is supposed to be candy sweet.

But the problem is that, while you are indeed entitled to an opinion, just saying "I did not like it" does not mean more than saying "I like strawberries but I don't like kiwis". If you are a student in LRE (and that "L" in the title also stands for "Literature"), then you are supposed to become a professional of literary interpretation. Just saying "it did not like it" is definitely NOT professional. It's nothing more than a 4-year old could say.

I do hope you have more to say than a 4-year old, do you?

In that case take the next step and explain: What exactly you disliked? Was it on moral basis or aesthetic basis? Was it the characters that you did not like? Or the reality the novel presented? And try to explain: Why you did not dislike that?

Is your dislike motivated by aesthetic reasons --and if so, name them!-- or by the reality the novel represents.

By answering even a fraction of these you might become a bit more professional and get beyond the 4-year old pouting kid image...

alex.hapca · Trimis: 21/05/2008 22:21 Titlul subiectului:

Why didn't you like the book?Was it difficult for you to read or you simply didn't like the plot?I guess you read the book...Could you give me some examples of passages /scenes you didn't enjoy too much?

m.kirmajer · Rookie Data inscrierii: 21/Mai/2008 Mesaje: 9

alex.hapca

Do you consider that Shakespeare played any role in the novel?Could he be considered a motif of the book?What's your opinion about this?

Larisa Sofineti · Trimis: 23/05/2008 16:57 Titlul subiectului: Brave New World

"Brave New World" anticipates the development of technology and presents a world of people being conditioned, also an abolition of individuality and choice, everything is about consumption. It seems more and more surprising for me those pages in the book where are presented people made in labs, we can compare this thing nowadays too, it is horrible. I think that this book tries to illustrate a strict world, an example may be a division of people, some of them would be the smartest, the other less and so on.

maria pop · Trimis: 26/05/2008 16:33 Titlul subiectului:

Even if I couldn't take part at the discussion that you had about BRAVE NEW WORLD I want to say that I found it a story about technological future, a dystopia which is a bit mixed. I think that it claims to transform the world into a liveble place in order to obtain a state dominated by principle.It describes a society design to work perfectly.

maria pop · Trimis: 26/05/2008 16:40 Titlul subiectului:

I think that a secondary theme is predestination-this state takes the idea of predestination as a christian idea. I think that predestination is important because it is efficient,each individual has a significant role,this is why the government decides each individual what should do.

monica p · Diver Data inscrierii: 08/Mai/2008 Mesaje: 66

Regarding Alexandra's question about Shakespeare, I would say that his work read by John an mocked at by other people from the "new world"is a symbol which makes the connection with the old language,expressive and based on sensitiveness.Unfortunately in the supertechnologised society of the"new world",feelings and emotions are no longer important and that's why any kind of language expressing them is viewed ironically.

Laura Cornea · Trimis: 29/05/2008 18:02 Titlul subiectului:

I also think "Brave New World" is a very interesting book. I guess it proves that there's no perfect society. One cannot create the angelic world, because there'll always be disadvantages. Just take for example the people that look very well and are perfectly healthy for about 60 years but after they just vanish, collapse.... So it's nice to have a world populated with fit and healthy persons, but then what happens with the old ones or with those who simply can't fit in that perfect designed society? We just kill'em?
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Laura Cornea · Trimis: 29/05/2008 18:05 Titlul subiectului:

And I also think that the entire book was meant to be an irony to all those books and philosophies that speak about absolut societies and deplin human beings, about worlds where's no pain, no anger and no hatred.
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Laura Cornea · Trimis: 31/05/2008 14:53 Titlul subiectului: Re: Brave New World

Laura Cornea · Trimis: 31/05/2008 15:01 Titlul subiectului:

As shown here, people are encouraged to take drugs "And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger...". Like this they refuse any kind of unpleasant emotions and I guess this makes them a bit superficials."
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