In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, individual freedom is controlled by the use of recreational drugs, genetic manipulation and the encouragement of promiscuous sexual conduct, creating the ideal society whose inhabitants are in a constant happy unchanging utopia. In sharp contrast, Seamus Heaney’s poetry allows for the exploration of individual freedom through his symbolic use of nature and this is emphasised even further by people’s expression of religion, which prevails over the horrors
Brave new world (speech) “People will come to love their oppression, to adore technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Written in 1932 by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t want you to think of this as a vague literary quote, but a warning of what is happening right now in the 21 st century. Technology is literally in our pockets, our homes, our cars, it is now a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. It’s true - we do love the captivation and control that
sociopolitical changes that deprive the society of worldly pleasures. Dystopian fiction was defined by many scholars. Basu, Broad, and Hintz in their edited book Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers (2009) defined dystopia as a fiction that “describes non-existent societies intended to be read as “considerably worse” than the reader’s own” and that is the opposite of utopia which is “the non-existent society “considerably better” than the current world” (Basu et al
realization of a totalitarian regime, the “worst of all possible worlds,” a nightmarish state which might exist in the future if corrective and prophylactic measures are not taken in the present; however, present Arabic dystopian fiction does not imagine a hypothetical future, but rather, testifies and protests against the “worst of all possible worlds” as a present world state, and perhaps petitions for hope to found a better world—being dystopianism which calls for utopianism. Arab dystopian fiction
Margaret Atwood sets her novel in the world of dystopia where the world is portrayed pessimistically and in the future. The dystopian world is totally different from the present world. The dystopian world is a futuristic and ultra modern envisaged cosmos where the society is controlled by the domineering and tyrannical corporate, bureaucratic, technological or totalitarian
The “It’s Not Normal Argument” against transhumanism stresses the difference between therapy and enhancement. Genetic therapy is ethically acceptable because it tries to reestablish “normal” species functioning, whereas enhancement is ethically wrong because it exceeds the “normal” function of the human species. However, what is considered normal changes over time. If one was living five hundred years ago, it is most likely that one would not experience a single