Wordle + Brave New World

In the words of Wordle, Wordle is: “a toy for generating “word
clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater
prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source
text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts,
and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours
to use however you like. You can [...]

Sex, Drugs, and Engineered Utopia: A Brave New World

A Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. It is a speculative science fiction novel that portrays an engineered population dwelling in a hyper-organized, caste system based society, where each person is born to their assigned duties, procreation takes place on the assembly line of the Hatcheries and Conditioning Centre, and sex [...]

“Community, Individuality, Stability”

The innovative, futuristic world conjured by Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World proposes that even the most ideally modelled and mediated society is capable of exhibiting flaws. Huxley’s provocative work provides the modern day reader with food for thought as the advancements in bioengineering, he seems to suggest, created in his dystopian society [...]

Brave New World: Regressive Progress

More, newer, faster, better… these are the words that we have come to strive in achieving, science leading the way to a promising, more comfortable world. But how progressive is progress? What, in its rapid pace forward, does it leave behind? In the dystopian science-fiction novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley challenges the increasing prevalence [...]

BRAVE NEW WORLD: A Sociopolitical Allegory

 
In Brave New World, Ardous Huxley enthralls us with his cleverly written and futuristic dystopian story of our main character, Bernard Marx, and his struggle to fight against the folkways of the Fordian society he lives in to define his individuality.  The Brave New World he lives in is a world with one totalitarian government [...]