Final Exam by Kaitlyn Jang https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz Brit Lit II final exam essay en-us 2018-12-09 02:28:35 UTC 2018-12-12 03:49:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Thesis kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576646 "The things of the world become more human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. We humanize 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."  
- We may not want to acknowledge our growing dependency (and maybe even addiction) to technology, but by reading these novels, we see what detrimental effects this dependency can have on our humanity
- take these novels as a warning - they all highlight the growing problem (being out of touch with nature) that we have (conclusion)   

By reading novels such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, we are able to see the the negative impacts of technology when it is used to go against the natural ways of life. Although we like to believe that we have full control over our lives, going against nature through technology to maintain this control only results negatively. By becoming more dependent on technology, we are stripped from an innate part of humanity that is fearing the unknown because we cannot know the full course of our lives. We may not want to acknowledge our growing dependency, and maybe even addiction, to technology, but by reading these novels, we see what detrimental effects such dependency and addiction can have on our humanity.          ]]> 2018-12-09 02:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576646 Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576653 In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the main character Victor Frankenstein tries to  assume a God-like role when he decides to fulfill his life's mission to bring a creature to life that turns out to be a monster.  ]]> 2018-12-09 02:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576653 Evidence #1 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576666 "I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil; the void that presents itself to the soul; and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed forever - that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard" (Shelley 24).    ]]> 2018-12-09 02:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576666 Analysis #1 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576672 In Frankenstein's case, his "unknown" was the power of death. Before pursuing his lifelong goal to create his "monster," Frankenstein was traumatized by the death of his mother.  

The monster ended up killing everybody Frankenstein loved]]> 2018-12-09 02:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576672 Works Cited kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576719 Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 2006 ed., HarperCollins Publishers, 1932.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. First Vintage International ed., Vintage, 2005.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1994 ed., Dover Publications, 1831.
]]> 2018-12-09 02:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576719 Recording kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576746 2018-12-09 02:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312576746 Great ideas, Kaitlyn! Which texts and characters show this? Be specific here in your thesis. "Which is to..." is kind of awkward so revise this in your draft. Which quote are you responding to? Refer to this implicitly in your thesis. megryan https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312949510 2018-12-10 14:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312949510 Paragraph #2 Topic Sentence kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312975391 In Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley uses a satirical "utopian" society to warn readers against the dangers that are posed against humanity when everyone lives in a world that is dependent on various forms of technology.   ]]> 2018-12-10 15:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/312975391 Evidence #1 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313240009 "They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows" (Shelley 27)]]> 2018-12-11 02:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313240009 Evidence #1 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313240341 "As he went on, I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being...and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose...I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation" (Shelley 27, 28). ]]> 2018-12-11 02:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313240341 Analysis #2 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313241686 the fear/"unknown" is social chaos, sickness, death  ]]> 2018-12-11 03:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313241686 Evidence #2 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313242166 "That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that" (Huxley 111)  ]]> 2018-12-11 03:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313242166 Evidence #2 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313242199 "...Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world - the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was! 'Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted...'" (Huxley 77) ]]> 2018-12-11 03:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313242199 Evidence #2 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313245131 "And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half of your mortality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that's what soma is." (Huxley 238).  ]]> 2018-12-11 03:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313245131 Paragraph #3 Topic Sentence kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313246769 Similarly to the society of Brave New World, Kazuo Ishiguro depicts a dystopian world in his novel Never Let Me Go to emphasize the detrimental effects of using science to create life and the effects of building a society upon such technological methods. ]]> 2018-12-11 03:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313246769 Analysis #3 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313247539 drawbacks of creating artificial life forms that have human characteristics (like Frankenstein's monster) 

clones are humans/exhibit all human qualities so treating them otherwise is inhumane and strips them of humanity - they just become machines with predetermined fates  ]]> 2018-12-11 03:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313247539 Evidence #3 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313248173 "Nevertheless, we all of us, to varying degrees, believed that when you saw the person you were copied from, you'd get some insight into who you were deep down, and maybe too, you'd see something of what your life held in store" (Ishiguro 140). ]]> 2018-12-11 03:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313248173 Evidence #3 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313253165 "None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do...You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided" (Ishiguro 81). ]]> 2018-12-11 04:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313253165 Evidence #3 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313254524 "I was pretty much ready when I became a donor. It felt right. After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" (Ishiguro 227). ]]> 2018-12-11 04:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313254524 Evidence #3 kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313254722 "You poor creatures" (Ishiguro 272). ]]> 2018-12-11 04:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313254722 GREAT THESIS! megryan https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313603349 2018-12-11 20:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313603349 Conclusion kjang1 https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313603455 relate to today: constantly dependent on our phones; we want to know the answers to things right away; everything is inside the screen; it’s an addiction that will only spiral downwards if we keep discovering new technology forms; of course there are benefits of communication BUT at what cost? the cost of us losing touch with nature? foregoing the natural way to meet people, make friends; losing capability to communicate in person]]> 2018-12-11 20:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kjang1/hvy8prkrwrmz/wish/313603455