- Soma
- Machinery "Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn't see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour.Two hundred and sixty-seven days at eight metres a day. Two thousand one hundred and thirty-six metres in all" (7).
- Technological Advancements "Bokanovsky's Process"
Questions:
- Why does Huxley bring back the drug of Soma through out the book?
- Why does Huxley depict the setting as highly sophisticated, mechanically. With a large portion of the machines taking over what we would usually do today?
- What is Huxley trying to tell us with the technological advancements in this book, how do they affect the people in the book?
Thesis:
- Through the extreme use of the drug soma and the advancements in technology, Huxley uses Brave New World as a warning of what our world might become. With this being said we find out Huxley's view point on the advancement of technology.
I like the ideas, but I think you could be a little more specific on what exactly Huxley's view is-rather than just telling us that he has a view on technology, tell what that view is.
ReplyDeleteSoma is a good pattern. Maybe if you said how soma affects the society. I agree with Jayati, you could be more specific with what Huxley is warning against.
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