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A Brave New World sets 500 years in the future, in a whole new society in which technology has taken away feelings. Concepts as parenthood, love and liberty no longer exists, and people take soma, a drug, to maintain the society order.
This letter is from John to Lenina, where he explains the reasons of his suicide and asks her to wake up and see the world in a different and more human way. It is written with a nostalgic informal tone and it is directed to an all-ages audience, especially school students.
I used first person informal language with a nostalgic, almost desperate tone, in which I wanted to show John’s inside struggles applying phrases like “Am I sinning for wanting more than I deserve?” and “And it's wrong, and it's
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Personally, I think Lenina needed an explanation about his behavior. Furthermore, John was a Shakespeare’s follower so he wouldn’t end his life without …show more content…
Romeo, Othello, Hamlet... They made the same decision. This is the only way out, Lenina, and it hurts me so much the fact that I cannot show you the way I see the world. It hurts me not to be able to get you out of this place, where you live locked up in a golden cage without knowing it.
I wish I could introduce you to God, Shakespeare and pain. I would like you to know the concept of chastity, motherhood and love. I would like, Lenina, for you to see me the way I saw you when I met you.
You should know that I always think about you, Lenina; In every way, right and wrong. And it's wrong, and it's fine, and I'm going crazy. I always pray for you, Lenina. To Jesus, to Pookong, to all the gods I know and whom I do not know.
I wish I could have been your Romeo. I wish you would have been my Juliet. I wish things had been different... Am I sinning for wanting more than I deserve?
Honestly, Lenina... I do not know how you're going to take this. I do not know if this is going to change anything in you, or if you're just going to throw it away, like you do with everything else. But,
Lenina, Love. Cry, laugh. Feel. Pain is a part of life. Live.
Forever
Soon enough Lucy wants more from John of being in there own house and living better. As John is away Lucy gets sick and eventually dies. John seems to think he need to find someone else to be with. He do not take any time of feeling sad about Lucy death. Even though the whole town is mad at him for being too quick about finding another wife he still does it. Show that John cannot be alone, he needs someone there with him as a guide. His new wife Hattie is just someone one he brought into his life, even though he knows she could never take Lucy place. John does whatever he wants, no matter what Hattie wants him to do or does not want him to do. John still has not matured because a responsible man and matured man do what they're supposed to do the right way. John seem to always want to be an a relationship but not really with someone he truly love. Hattie says “ Well if you do not want me you made lak yuh did.”(143). Showing he give signs that he need someone to be around him. Eventually John no longer want Hattie anymore and also hits her. He tries to be on his own for awhile to get his mind straight after all the drama and court dates with Hattie. John after a while goes right back to
John has emphasized that all of the wrongs that he has encountered, he does not wish to sadden another by highlighting their flaws. As a character, John only tries to bring out the good and hide the evil within the
In the chorus, there is a line that goes: “It’s the very face I fell for in the human race.” It tells about the love that Lenina has for John. She is attracted to his physical beauty exactly like what she feels with people in the World State. The next line, “I was brainwashed to be honest in this brave new world” simply describes the citizens of
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Komar and Melamid’s painting titled “Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live! (1982)” shows the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin lying at the top of the podium in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow and a kneeling female figure in mourning in the lower right corner. The painting bears resemblances to the Soviet and French Revolutionary and Christian models (Hillings 49). Lenin’s corpse and the other-worldly female figure show an artificial disconnect that resembles how various Soviet regimes used
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All right, lets get this essay started right. Just to be totally clear here, Vladimir Lenin was a boss ass bitch who didn’t have any fucks to give. He was the leader of the KKK and was part of the Nazi party. This whore was gassing black Jews left and right. Who’s the fried chicken now fuckers??? Lenin was also a talk show host and the occasional stripper (what a party animal ;] ) Lenin took pole dancing classes and was able to make Oprah dollars. He supported the entire country of Zimbabwe with the whopping $9 an hour he was making every Wednesday.
During Russia’s transition to communism in the early 20th century, conflict and unease permeated every part of life. Nothing was stable and very little of what the Bolsheviks had fought for had come to fruition by the time the USSR disbanded in 1991. The “classless society”, which was to work together for the prosperity of everyone, never became a reality. In the end, the majority of Russia’s 20th century was an utter failure on a grand scale. However, there were many amazing products of the system do to the great importance of education in Russian culture. Priceless novels were written, timeless movies were made, and great scientific endeavors were realized despite the rigid control placed upon Russian persons by the government. In
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In this paper, I plan to explain Dostoevsky’s criticism of Western Individualism. Dostoevsky’s first criticism resides in the idea to “love life more than the meaning of it, “which is presented by the character Alyosha (Dostoevsky 3). Allowing this character to discuss this topic, along with the commentary of Ivan, demonstrates their mindset to solely focus on their own lives, opposed to caring for others. This leads to them living for the now, and not focusing on how their decisions will affect their future or others. Dostoevsky disapproves of this notion because living by this mentality encourages the guidance of logic, which is dangerous because it could tell you to kill yourself. From Dostoevsky’s Eastern Orthodox background, he believes that the only way from living from this situation is to deny it. By denying this way of living, the focus toward life will not be directed toward yourself, but toward the way you can impact the environment around you. Ivan clearly does not believe in these values, due to his intentions to commit suicide at the age of thirty. As said before, living by the idea to “love life more than the meaning of it” leads to death, and Ivan indulges in this to the fullest (Dostoevsky 3).
Today Lenin arrived and has begun speaking out. He started with the delegates, he advocated uncompromising and hostility to the supporters of both the opposition of the war and the provisional government. While he was doing that he declared the Bolsheviks a task to convince the people of their policies.
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is the theme of Hamlet’s madness. Shakespeare left it up to the audience to decide whether he