So, I think there are a lot of topics that I could easily explore, but narrowing it down to only a few is sort of easy, yet hard. I find that when times comes, I will obviously try to dive deeper within these topics to get my point across. 1) I want to explore how their want and desire for technology has advanced the human race. One illustration of this is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. In my personal opinion, the whole baby-making-process should be made by humans, not humans using chemicals. Not only has that, but the way they can alter and chemically change a certain embryo to carry what that individual wanted, like creating Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. It’s wrong, and I don’t think that the World State wants to advance their utopia and create better a better way to view science; they want to use science to improve their technology. 2) I would like to dive deeper into how George Orwell’s novel 1984 and Brave New World sort of tie in together. Like 1984, Brave New World uses government control to maintain their type of happiness. However, both differ in one aspect. In 1984 the government would control by using surveillance and other types of technology to control its public whereas in the novel we just finished, the government lets their people run wild without surveillance and makes them advance their technology. Notice how both have strict limitations and make use of technology. Those, I think are two points that I want to explore.
So I figured out which two texts that I really wanted to use. I read Frederick Winslow Taylor’s The Principles of Scientific Management 1910 –chapter 2 excerpts and I found it very interesting, oddly enough. I usually get bored of these quickly but I think this particular one caught my attention because of its direct parallelism to Brave New World. In this text, he writes, “First. They develop a science for each element of a man’s work, which replaces the old rule- of-thumb method. Second. They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman, whereas in the past he chose his own work and trained himself as best he could. Third. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to insure all of the work being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been developed. Fourth. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen. The management take over all work for which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the men.” All these tie carefully into the works of Brave New World with their attempts to make the utopia better. By following these four steps, you sort of get a feel for how the government in Brave New World works. Another text I would like to hopefully dig a little into would be the text Brave New World Revisited. I think it has a lot of good text that could really help me prove my two points above. It gives me a little more insight.
