Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Rough Draft 3rd paragraph
Huxley uses contrast between the society in the world state and the savage reservation to show directly how materialism has replaced religion. The savage reservation is a very primitive form of standard American life as far as values are concerned, religion is a huge part of the society and the source of purpose for the people living in it. This is put in stark contrast to the World State that has no religion, instead they worship the industial ideas of Henery Ford and that lives can be manufactued and maintained just like a Model T assembly line that Mr. Ford is most famous for. These two lifestyles contrast eachother in almost everyway, where on the reservation pain and suffering are thought a natural part of life the World state has eliminated it compleley. This contrast is best expressed by the conversation between John the Savage and Mustapha Mond the controller, John expresses what he values, "I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger" (Huxley 240). Mustapha Mond replys to this by saying that, "God isn't compatatible with machinery...we prefer to do things comfortably" (Huxley 234,240) This shows that the contrast between the reservation and world state is chaos verses organization, each has there value but they cannot coexist, just as the two worlds cannot.
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