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Great thesis, Lucy. Eliminate "very" and then BS about "negatively affected" 

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Great thesis, Lucy. Eliminate "very" and then BS about "negatively affected" 

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HOW?

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Every single person in Brave New World (except the very few people who are born on the reservation) are raised without a significant caregiver. This lack of human connection prevents the characters from being able to have strong relationships later in their lives. They are conditioned to think that having a family is undesirable, and no one wishes to have a permanent significant other or children. In fact, they are disgusted by this idea.

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chapter 7: " 'What a wonderfully intimate relationship,' he said, deliberately outrageous. 'And what an intensity of feeling it must generate! I often think one may have missed something in not having had a mother.' "

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p. 236 "... she looked at me and she knew exactly who I was...     she looked at me, just for a moment, and although she didn't speak, I knew what her look meant.
- this quote shows how connected Kathy and Ruth are. They care about each other so much they can know what the other one is thinking without words being spoken. This shows how important relationships are, because in the last moments of Ruth's life she is able to get across a message to Kathy that no one else would have been able to interpret.

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p.140: "You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. -----monster is desperate for a companion for he is so alone
p.117 "But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses"

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"attachment' is a concept studied in pyschology that proves that children who do not make a human connection, or attachment, in the first year of their lives end up being mentally handicapped, and can lead to possible breakdowns later in life. It is a proven fact in science that a human connection is a primal human need. If a child never connects to a human when they are young, there is a change that throughout their lives they will never have a normal relationship.

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Attachment security and behaviors have been studied in adult relationships, and attachment-related patterns that differ between individuals are commonly called "attachment styles." There seems to be an association between a person's attachment characteristics early in life and in adulthood, but the correlations are far from perfect.

Many adults feel secure in their relationships and comfortable depending on others (echoing "secure" attachment in children). Others tend to feel anxious about their connection with close others-or prefer to avoid getting close to them in the first place. Studies of persons with borderline personality disorder, characterized by a longing for intimacy and a hypersensitivity to rejection, have shown a high prevalence and severity of insecure attachment.

Attachment styles in adulthood have labels similar to those used to describe attachment patterns in children:

Secure

Anxious-preoccupied (high anxiety, low avoidance)

Dismissing-avoidant (low anxiety, high avoidance)

Fearful-avoidant (high anxiety, high avoidance)

However, attachment styles may be better thought of as dimensional, where a person rates as relatively high, low, or somewhere in the middle in their levels of attachment-related anxiety and attachment-related avoidance. Also, a person may not exhibit the same kind of attachment pattern in every close relationship.

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Attachment is the emotional bond that forms between infant and caregiver, and it is the means by which the helpless infant gets primary needs met. It then becomes an engine of subsequent social, emotional, and cognitive development.

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the children rely on each other to get through Hailsham, and the relationships they make there follow them through the rest of their life. Kathy and Ruth have an unbreakable bond, even after decades. They can get in hundreds of fights and they will still end up being friends in the end.

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Never Let Me Go shows the importance of meaningful relationships in multiple instances throughout the novel. The characters [are] mainly donors who [are] raised solely to donate their vital organs to society. Because they attend Hailsham, a special school, they find out early in their lives what their purpose is. To make it through life with that knowledge alone would most likely be close to impossible, so the fact that the children have the potential to connect with other children as they grow up helps to make them more developed humans.

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"The things of the world become more present for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows.  We humanize what is going on what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human."
analysis: This quote shows how important it is to be able to talk to our peers about what is happening in our lives, how humanizing it is to be able to have meaningful conversations.

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Good start Lucy. Say more about what you mean about "how our relationships affect our states of mine." Be specific. How does this relate to dehumanization? Which quote are you referring to?

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Good start Lucy. Say more about what you mean about "how our relationships affect our states of mine." Be specific. How does this relate to dehumanization? Which quote are you referring to?

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- Mary Shelley's parents shunned her so she eventually wrote this novel about a horrible creature who is shunned by society.
- monster is shunned by society so he turns to violence. Doesn't have a single meaningful relationship so is never able to find happiness. (denied relationship from frankenstein, who refuses to have a connection to him or create him another monster because he is so disgusted by him)
- all of the monster's life is determined by his looks- speak of how relationships are based on outward appearance

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There are many examples of how the lack of genuine human connection can lead to a pessimisstic state of mind in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

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In the novels read this year in Brit Lit 2, a common theme of dehumanization shows the importance of meaningful relationships. Brave New World, Never Let Me Go, and Frankenstein  explore the concept of the negative affect of blank?? have on lives when a supporting and beneficial relationship [is] not present.