Brave New World Padlet - Group 1 by https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2 Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2021-02-16 15:33:31 UTC 2025-11-18 10:15:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Critiques bschirmeier https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207415515 Patriarchal  
Racist ]]> 2021-02-16 15:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207415515 SOMA kmotley5 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207416036 soma = cigarettes ]]> 2021-02-16 15:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207416036 Questions cmiliaras https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207416635 1. I’m curious what your inspiration behind the addictive drug soma was, and if you based it off something with the same effects?
2. Or was it merely to show how effortless and unnatural it was to switch off peoples humanity, bringing them closer to their inevitable fate.
3. Did any events from your own life, in the early 1900s, reflect those of the story? 
4. out of interest, what did you think would be the biggest threats of the future? ]]> 2021-02-16 15:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207416635 Where it was Accurate bschirmeier https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207416702 Soma ---> technology, drugs

Preservation of youth ---> modern day beauty product]]> 2021-02-16 15:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207416702 How it all comes together https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207419312 These themes surrounding Brave New World, written in 1931,  are still talked about today.
Huxley Talks about
Overuse of drugs
Domestic violence and Intimate relationships. 
Freedom vs happiness
Technology abd human progression

]]> 2021-02-16 15:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207419312 THE TOLL OF SOMA kmotley5 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207429256 Soma, soma, soma
Oo-oh
Little pill-boxes of soma
What more can they ask for?
Deprivation of soma-appalling thought 
Why there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts
Always soma granting infantile contentment  
The nauseous ugliness of the nightmare
Well, I’d rather be unhappy
Yet lying happiness 
But don’t take that horrible stuff 
It’s poison, it’s poison
Poison to the soul as well as body 
Her smile once infantile 
Now
Broken
Clawed 
Full of rage
Her hands went to her throat
She could no longer breathe
No more soma, soma, soma
]]> 2021-02-16 15:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207429256 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207436443 Don't you want to be free and men?

Don’t you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

I’ll teach you; I’ll make you be free whether you want to or not

He’s mad

They’ll kill him. They’ll . . .

Free, free!

Men at last!

The depressing stars had travelled quite some way across the heavens. 

Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds. 

Bottle of mine, it’s you I've always wanted!


]]> 2021-02-16 15:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207436443 Themes cmiliaras https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207437545 1. It’s clear that your writing is a warning to our society that technological and scientific advances are capable of controlling and altering the characteristics that ultimately make us human.
2.  Humans are vulnerable and susceptible to the aspects of instant gratification, which allow us to ignore the unpleasant parts of our reality.
3. We must embrace our emotions, and accept how we feel, because that’s an essential part of being who we are
4. The intent of stability, and the way in which the government achieves it, in Brave New World, conveys the threats of the society we're living in today.
5. The heroes in Brave New World were ultimately the ones who questioned everything and lived by their values.]]> 2021-02-16 15:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207437545 Disconnect kmotley5 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207446116 2021-02-16 15:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207446116 A DAY IN THE LIFE kmotley5 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207461918 2021-02-16 15:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207461918 kmotley5 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207469051 2021-02-16 15:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207469051 kmotley5 https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207479977 2021-02-16 15:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207479977 Progress his Happiness bschirmeier https://padlet.com/bschirmeier/ui4my3yhmpp4wui2/wish/1207484366 The hive of industry 
Progress is happiness
Everything in ordered motion
Progress is happiness
By scores at a time 
Progress is happiness 
Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before
Progress is happiness
Millions of identical twins
Progress is happiness
After all, everyone works for everyone else
The hive hums on 

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