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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Present with the past?

As I was reading Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley I saw similar qualities in the reservation and our modern society.   In addition to this, there are also some distinct differences.  The reservation is isolated in New Mexico which bares similarity to the Native American tribes in the 17th-19th century.  However the “Native Americans” in Huxley’s world study literature like we do today.  They have books by Shakespeare, and other books banned in the World State.  The people of the reservation also believe in God, this shows how close they are to our modern society.  Huxley however adds a distinct primitive feature about the inhabitants of the reservation; they mend their clothing.  Although they believe in God, read novels, and give live birth; the reservation is different from our modern world.  I see the reservation as a blend between our modern world and the Indians from our colonial time.  Does anyone also see this?
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  1. UnknownAugust 22, 2013 at 10:04 PM

    If we were to take our world as we know it and brought it all the way back to when the Indians ruled the United States, there would be, in fact, some major differences. In Brave New World, the reservation seems to be a mix of the past and the present from our world. The people do follow the Christian religion and read similar literature that we read today, but the technology that exists in the reservation is non-existent. I guess Huxley does this to give us a perspective of life in the World State and the Reservation and make us think, "is the World State really a place worth living in?" That's just how I see it though.

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  2. UnknownAugust 22, 2013 at 10:23 PM

    Remember to keep in mind that Huxley's Brave New World is written in the 1930's where the current way of living, in London as well, is less technologically advanced than our current one now. Huxley does take into account the basic characteristics of pre-industrialized 20th century London and uses it to create the Reservation, which closely resembles our culture. This is because despite decades of change, many of our behaviors and actions have remained the same. As technology advanced through the years we, of coursed changed our way of living, but at the core of all of it, is the basic characteristics that create the Reservation.

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