"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-eat, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and , after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east..." (pg. 259)
And so, with an ominous, disturbing picture, Huxley ends Brave New World. I was saddened by the ending, yet saw in it the warning that Huxley was issuing all along: science can be dangerous if it is not kept in check. Also, that what may appear a minor loss of independence can escalate into an all-controlling world power. Overall, I found Brave New World unlike anything I had ever read before, and when I put the book down, the word I kept repeating to my family was: "weird". Not particularly terrible or amazing, but weird.
In other subjects, I was originally surprised that no real change was made to the "Brave New World"; no rebellion occurred, no leader arose to give the citizens their independence, no pledges to abolish soma were made. Then, I realized that I had never expected these things to happen in the first place, I had simply wished for them. In a world with so much order, so much stability, and so much contentment over the way things are, it would be almost impossible to change anything. In the words of Mostapha Mond, "We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. (pg. 225)
Amy,
ReplyDeleteYou've got a strength for identifying important moments in the character's lives. I would just say that I had trouble quickly identifying which literary terms were being analyzed. Use the labels feature (located under the space where you write the entries) or bold the terms when you mention them.
Happy reading on novel #2!