Posts Tagged ‘Brave New World’

An essay in progress: HSC Module A — "Brave New World" and "Blade Runner"

INTRODUCTION
This has now joined the other workshops on the pages here.
Hi I’ve written an incomplete essay on Brave New World and blade runner. Can you just read it and see if it’s going to the right direction and also what else can I write about?
Topic
Imagine you have interviewed the composers of the TWO prescribed texts [...]

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In the Wild: Brave New World and Blade Runner

This went up on my personal site on 2 May 2006.
I mentioned yesterday that I was rereading Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia, using the Vintage Classics edition of 2004. David Bradshaw’s 1994 preface to that edition really is very good on the novel’s context and on its ambivalence: one is never sure whether Huxley [...]

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