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Thinking of a topic for the next essay pertaining to Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, I think I am going to go with a topic that would connect the novel to our world today, and the similarities, but obviously more the contradictions between our world and the Ford worshiping world. I can use George Orwell’s 1984 to draw similarities between those two worlds, and also to see how the two reflect the opposite spectrum of what our world is today, and how we see it. Both of the stories relate in that their societies are completely manipulated by government control, leaving the citizens stripped of rights that they don’t even know they should have. Reading both, and seeing how the majority of the societies react to their poor treatment is absurd to me, because they don’t even know what a true life is like. It’s like they are simply Barbie dolls being manipulated, without any sense of feeling or direction. They just do what they are trained and told to do and what they know to do. The video we watched from Sir Ken Robinson would also be a useful outside work that can help me draw contrasts and comparisons as well, to our world today, and the education system. He feels that children are being pushed through their schooling almost robot like, very similar to the Bokanovsky process in Brave New World. Kids are just told things and tested on them, without really learning much of anything, except how to guess on a Scantron. In Brave New World, the people just go through what they call their life after first being almost injected with knowledge that they must use to ‘live their life.’ SIr Ken Robinson uses a brilliant illustration to better prove exemplify his theories on the current educational system, which was created and designed along the same time as America, itself.