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brave new world and blade runner. Module A ? Comparative study Defining ?The Natural
World' ? A state of being not modified, civilised or cultured by humans. ...
... Both Blade Runner and Brave New world center on the issues of creation,
both texts using the issue as a warning for the future. ...
... Brave New World a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley and Blade Runner, a post modern
film by Ridley Scott are two dystopian speculative fiction texts which ...
... the toilet and that movies and books like Blade Runner, Clockwork Orange ... 411
wasn't that far off if the world kept up ... we'd all be in A Brave New World and yes ...
... up his next point which was depicted in the movie Blade Runner, many people ... He then
informs the reader of possibility of "Brave New World" Scenario being put ...
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Module A Comparative study
Defining The Natural World'
A state of being not modified, civilised or cultured by humans.
This applies to the external environment as well as the internal state of being (human nature)
In certain cases being natural is desirable, as they are not forced to bottle up their natural feelings. The conventional view taken is that these feelings include love and empathy that are natural' to human beings.
Huxley's quasi Freudian model:
Regards human behaviour as natural if they are instinctual, closer to animalistic behaviour. The power of reasoning and abstract thought takes them from being animals into developing higher' feelings (love, empathy).
When they are driven to their natural state of being people become barbaric and uncivilised not controlling their emotions and expecting to be gratified at every whim. This leads to behaviour that is intinctual and not motivated by adult reasoning. Mond:'adults at work but infants when it comes to emotions'.
Feelings of love and empathy are attributed to the soul' something that animals lack.
Therefore being in this view human' is not natural.
The World State Society of Brave New World
Labour becoming hyper-specialised: In advanced societies with labour becoming hyper-specialised. People do not see the effect of their labours no realise the significance of it.
Death is nothing because no one cares for individuality or has any emotional ties, "fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead" (page 67)
What is valued in the World State however is:
Comfort: physical and emotional comfort, "illness or wounds was to him not only horrifying, but even repulsive and rather disgusting. Like dirt, or deformity, or old age" (page...
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