Essay Stuff

So honestly I have no idea what to write about because I don't think I'm very good at just coming up with my own essay prompts. So I cheated and went to spark notes and other internet sources to come up with ideas and to get me thinking. Here are some ideas or possible theses I might like to explore in the upcoming essay:

First of all, I might like to explore the idea that these people are “happy” and talk about the effect that soma has on them. Also the theme truth vs. happiness would be a possibility. I would talk about weather truth is more important than happiness, or vice versa.

I also think it’d be interesting to talk about John and if he is more “free” (as spark notes would say) than the members of the World State. In my opinion he is, because he, unlike most people in this society, reads and studies Shakespeare. This allows him to be able to express how he feels at times where as other people can’t because of there lack of vocabulary.

Another possible essay topic I would like to write about is the power that technology has on the society. In this essay I would talk about how the people take medicine that helps them avoid their true emotion, and are pretty much made artificially in a factory. I also might connect hypnopaedia with modern day hypnosis and discuss their similarities. Are we really that different from this society? Sure they are alive for a different reason, to be efficient, but are we not similar to them in that our lives are centered around technology? Imagine what life would be without a T.V. or without the convenient use of cell phones.

These are the things that I might want to talk about in the essay. Unless I think of or read something better between now and then. In the mean time, thanks the internet.