BNW: Saigo Ni (The End)

BNW's ending was very abrupt and semi-predictably. I only state this because John is still a "Savage" so him wanting the world state to have religion and for him to want "god, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, and sin" is normal and expected. However the hanging of himself was something I didn't foresee. While reading the scene about how he had the discussion about religion and literature with Mond, i found that the scene was informative of who John truly was and Mond's explanation of soma as "Christianity without tears" was very riveting and allowed me to connect to Mond as a character and further understand the concept behind the actions and story of the "World State" in BNW.

Can science be ethical?

In the article "Can science be ethical?" Freeman Dyson questions the development and advancement of technology. Dyson believes that highly useful technology can only be acquired by the rich. The rich however treat this technology as "play things" or "toys." Cheap technology however is the only kind of technology that is ethical is technology that can be used and obtained by the rich and poor. His example of this is the use of his fatherss motorcycle.
In Brave New World technology is highly advance, but viewed through certain eyes it would seem unethical or even inhumane. However in the novel they make the technology technically available to everyone. So in this sense the science that Brave New World uses is ethical.

Brave New World Chapter 5-10

Dystopia is loosely defined to be a "utopia in disguised". In Brave New World it is very easy to see that their society strives to be perfect and a utopia but they have their flaws. However no one (in a positive position) can see any issues with their society. They are next to required to take a drug named Soma (basically a happy pill). While reading I noticed that Bernard had sex with Lenina. This may seem insignificant but, if you continue reading you see that Bernard didn't want to have sex and wanted to just be an adult. Bernard doesn't take Soma, so I believe that the Soma controls the emotion and actions of the characters and people of the society. This scene was significant because it clearly shows what effect the soma has and how society is without the drug.

A movie I can easily relate this too is the movie Equilibrium. This movie the people of their society are required to take drugs that prevents them from feeling emotion. This society is forbidden to feel any form of emotion such as happiness, sadness, remorse, or even being overwhelmed by the beauty of art. They believe this society is perfect however many people that rebel can see that there are flaws and should be taken down.

Brave New World Chapter 1-5

Brave new world has a few ideals that I support such as the element in a "utopia" that everyone should be predestined at birth to be a master at their selected field. Granted this method of a society seems unfair due to the automatic assignment of a person to a certain career. In the book it states that humans were classified in 5 groups, Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon. These issued castes determine the humans "income" or "importance" and because of the inability to decide which caste you are going to be in, an epsilon may hate his position in life. 

 Right in the beginning of this book it displays an element that a Marxist critique would love. The very beginning of the book it discusses the class system that their society (Brave new world's society) has ( which was discussed in the above paragraph). This book refers to Henry Ford constantly and place him in a position of divinity. The book utilizes fords method of building cars (assembly line) to build humans. Making humans more efficient as well as being able to create a large amount of humans. The people in the book constantly call upon Henry fords name pinning the idea that Ford is a deity. Such as an instance when a person shouts "His Fordship." obviously it should be His lordship.