Video and BNW

The video was pretty good and I thought it was very similar to the principles of Brave New World.  Sir Ken Robinson makes the point that he believes we have a system of education that is modeled around the interests of industrialization.  In the world after Ford, that’s basically what the education system is like.  Kids are bred to do things that will help the industry and economy of the state.  Whatever is in need at the time, that’s what the kids learned to do.  He continues on to say that children are taught in batches and separated in different groups.  Furthermore, in the BNW the government separates the children into groups as well and a certain group can work harder than the other,” alpha children….work harder than we do”(26) .  Sometimes the stronger kids are put into one group so they can be supreme in society.  Sir Robinson wants us to go away from this sort of production line mentality.  We shouldn’t  separate children into groups because essentially they are all the same.  Children in our world get very bored about the things that are taught to them.  We have a new knowledge being presented to us but refuse to accept the information because we do not find them very important.  In Ford’s world a child will be given information and they will love it.  Also, they will be presented with new information also but, they will not take it in because they are trained to only know a certain thing.  They are ignorant of new information if it does not play into the skills they were given to by the government.  They do not know any better and will never learn a new trade.  If they are told to work in a factory, that’s what they’ll do forever.

CH 3 BNW

So far, we have reached an understanding of where the principles of life are different in the reality after Ford created the assembly line.  People are breed to do things that are seemed fit for society.  If they need to work then that’s what they love to do.

“Mothers and Fathers, brothers, and sisters…… but there were also husbands, wives, lovers….there were also monogamy and romance” (39).  From this quote we see that the kids of this world have not heard these words before.  Or they have and been taught that they are bad words or funny words that you only here in a certain class.  So, we can obviously see that the kids do not have mothers or fathers.  This is the manipulation of reality.  They have a “creator” not a loving mother and father that fell in love and reproduced the natural way of life.  They are playing with the circle of life.  They are playing “God” in a sense.  The desire of having a family will cease to exist.  You cannot reproduce so you will have an artificial family.  There will be no desire or passion for love.  A girl and boy cannot fall in love and want to have kids.  It’s not the way it works in this world.  There’s no desire to do anything fun or enjoyable.  People are programmed to do what the government sees as expectable.  If there is a shortage of farmers they will train kids to farm and farm every day.  It’s what they will love to do because they do not know any better.  The world itself would be manipulation.  They do not know if the rest of the world is like this.  They do not have the temptation to read a book or ask if this is really how people lived.

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO????

In discussions of The Tempest, the traditional view is to consider how Prospero had taken over Caliban and the island just like the principles of colonization.  However, there may be other ways to think about this text.  For one thing, Stephen Greenblattt’s article “The Best Way To Kill Our Literary Inheritance Is To Turn It into a Decorous Celebration of the New World Order” explains that there is always a deeper meaning in works of literature that are drowned out by readers or critics who do not understand the true meaning.  Although, George Will contends that a writer has a predetermined notion about what his or hers writing will be and no one can argue that.  Therefore, taking these positions into account, we can see that they’re can be many different meanings of The Tempest.

We can say that people believe that Caliban is being ruled over by Prospero just like how the Europeans came over to the New World and took over the Indian’s lands without remorse.  George Will would say that this is the correct assumption for the play.  He would say that this is what Shakespeare wanted the play to be about but, of course we can never be certain now.  Other might say that maybe there’s another interpretation of the play, but under the principles of Will there can be millions but, the only one that matters is that of the one who wrote the master piece.

I would agree with Greenblatt.  Even though, it could be clear that colonization plays a factor but, I think Shakespeare has hidden a deeper meaning to the play.  I have no idea what it could be.  Once I start to analyze the text more. Maybe something will come up, but for now I believe that there’s more than just colonization.  Maybe there’s some sort of life lesson to be heard.