https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd en-us 2018-12-07 17:25:16 UTC 2023-04-05 17:19:47 UTC hello@padlet.com ebelvin https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357352661 As seen in King Lear, Frankenstein, and Brave New World the obsession with power and pursuit of knowledge causes those who have it to deny those resources to others and ultimately oppressing them in an attempt to keep all of the power for themselves, showing how obsession with power and knowledge supercedes empathy. ]]> 2019-05-06 19:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357352661 ebelvin https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357356797 In King Lear, Lear's obsession with power causes him to take advantage of his daughters and use fear to control his servants, discarding all empathy towards those around him. ]]> 2019-05-06 19:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357356797 ebelvin https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357356866 Shelley, through Frankenstein, conveys how the need to remain in control leads to fearing those who are different and refusing to empathize with others; this causes him to dehumanize his own creation because he sees the creation as a threat to his power ]]> 2019-05-06 19:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357356866 ebelvin https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357356911 As seen in Brave New World, the World Controller limits access to knowledge within the society, genetically modifies the lower classes, and distracts them with drugs in order to remain in control. Rather than treating and viewing the lower classes as human, he views them as machines that work to keep him in power. ]]> 2019-05-06 19:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357356911 ebelvin https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357357113 "disclaim all paternal care" (1.1.112)

"'My lady's father!' my lord's knave: you whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!" (1.4.76)

"Here do you keep a hundred knights  and squires; Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold." (1.4.230-231)]]> 2019-05-06 19:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357357113 ebelvin https://padlet.com/ebelvin/quaau8i90kbd/wish/357357247 "But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of being I had created..." (Shelley 35) 

"I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach, then close with him in mortal combat. He approached his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes." ( Shelley 68) 

"Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery? Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me and I will defend it." (Shelley 68) 

"Remember thou has made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple. But I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition with thee. I am thy creature, and I will be mild and docile to my natural lord and king." (Shelley 68-69) 


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"It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes- make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well being, but the intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge." (Huxley 177) Controller

"why don't you take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about the,. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly." (Huxley 92) Lenina to Bernard

"They're the gyroscope that stabilizes the rocket plane of state on its unswerving course" (Huxley 222) controller to John

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