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This paper discusses how in Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel, "Brave New World", the theme of dehumanization is delineated through the misapplication of science and technology. It looks at how various chilling techniques, used by scientists and the overall government, control the people that are contained in the society that exists within this novel. The society within the novel is analyzed and it is suggested by the paper that the utopia is dehumanizing the inhabitants.

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"The control of science and technology is best described as inhumane in this society because stripping people of their natural human desires is exactly what the scientists and controllers intend to do. Written directly by Huxley himself was that "...the secret of happiness and virtue - [is] liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny" (Huxley 16). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning clearly states that people in society are taught and basically have no choice but to accept and like the conditions that they are forced to live in. There is not much that they can do to change this, if anything at all. Destiny is determined by chemistry in this novel rather than people naturally deciding, with their own personal choices, as to where their lives should lead. "

Tags:utopia, science, technology

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This paper examines the struggles of female enslavement, the dehumanizing effects of slavery as well as ultimate escape of author Harriet Jacobs, as detailed so vividly in her book "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." This paper also focuses on Jacobs's gender which lends a certain uniqueness to the experiences surrounding her struggles and her final resulting escape.

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"Of course, many masters abused their female slaves, certainly lending justification to escape by these women. This is true in the story, as Jacobs describes the events leading to Dr. Flint's abuse. Furthermore, she explains that feelings and emotions that surround many households, particularly between masters and mistresses, because of this sexual abuse. Dr. Flint's abuse of Jacobs, however, led to another form of oppression because of her gender. Mrs. Flint initially offers Jacobs protection from Dr. Flint's advances. Although this offer is made out of jealousy, Mrs. Flint takes Jacobs into her room to sleep at night."

Tags:slavery, african, american, history, u.s., american, women, gender

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This paper explores Toni Morrison's technique of humanizing her characters in the novel "The Bluest Eye" about a young African American girl, Pecola. With themes of racism, incest and child abuse, the author explains Morrison's literary techniques of not dehumanizing the characters that dehumanize Pecola in order for the reader to understand their hatred for Pecola.

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"In her novel, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison admits that she did not want to dehumanize the characters that dehumanize Pecola. She succeeds because she presents us with characters that are real without being overdone. She also succeeds because she does not point a finger at any one individual (or race, for that matter) for Pecola's suffering. It is a collective soul that destroys Pecola and we see these characters best when they are painted with true colors. They are not completely good or evil and we must look at them warts and all. Only then can we begin to understand their hatred for Pecola."

Tags:incest, racism

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"In the novel Envy, Yury Olesha portrays the alienation of the bourgeois in the wake of the Russian revolution. The protagonist, Nikolai Kavalerov, realizes gradually that the new Soviet man is not to be envied but to be ignored. The critical incident occurs at the climax of the novel, when Kavalerov dreams of the death of the Christ-like Ivan Babichev at the hands of his own disaffected machine. At the end of the novel, Kavalerov decides to remain in the bed of the widow Prokopovich, symbol of decadence and decay. He comes to realize that a transition to a new Soviet man is impossible, and his envy changes to indifference. The Soviet world is represented in Envy as a place where individuality is lost and replaced with collective ideals--romanticism replaced with empiricism and emotions replaced by logic."

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"This book report is based on Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care by Timothy Diamond. The book was published by The University of Chicago Press. It consists of 280 pages, including index.
The main theme of Making Gray Gold is that nursing homes are bureaucratic institutions that could use a healthy dose of "mother's wit." Mother's wit describes the maternal feelings and interpersonal skills needed by all persons who give primary care to the elderly: "Mother's wit is not an abstract concept or a set of ideas; it is the wide range of practices that hold the organization together" (241). Nursing is a caring profession, and nowhere is compassion and insight more needed than in the sterile environment of the nursing home. As Diamond's instructor advised him, "You have to look into a patient's eyes as much as ..."

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INTRODUCTION
"In 1965, Frances Clarke Sayers wrote the following with reference to Walt Disney and the way he treated his film material:
I call him to account for his debasement of the traditional literature of childhood, in films and in the books he publishes: He shows scant respect for the integrity of the original creations of authors, manipulating and vulgarizing everything for his own ends. His treatment of folklore is without regard for its anthropological, spiritual, or psychological truths. Every story is sacrificed to the "gimmick". . . of animation. . . Not content with the films, he fixes these mutilated versions in books which are cut to a fraction of their original forms, illustrates them ..."

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A presentation and examination of a Charlie Chaplin Film 'Modern Time' and Robert Lynd's book called "Middletown" which describe the struggle against the dehumanization of the proletarian man by machine and the Industrial age. The author finds that the industrial age, while profitable from a financial standpoint for those who were in charge, dehumanized the proletarian man as well. The machine knocked him out of the running and sent him home to explain to his family that he was no longer able to provide.

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"The Industrial Age was one that moved mankind ahead in leaps and bounds. Within the few years of its explosion and growth the ability to use technology to speed up tasks and to get them done with precision allowed the world to concentrate on other expansions and needs. The Industrial Age was a boon to those who rode the top of the age to success, however, for many millions around the nation and the world the age actually set them back. The Industrial Age, while profitable form a financial standpoint for those who were in charge, it dehumanized the proletarian man as well. The machine knocked him out of the running and sent him home to explain to his family that he was no longer able to provide. There are two classic examples of what the Industrial Age did regarding the proletarian man. The movie by the late Charlie Chaplin called Modern Time (1956) and the book called Middletown by Robert Lynd both illustrate the ways the machine replaced the man. "

Tags:Charlie, Chaplin, Middletown, proletarian, man, machine, industrial, age, dehumanization

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This paper explains that modernist literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions; thereby, the World War I poets reinvented the conventions of poetic prose, turning ballads of war glory into vivid accounts of horrific tragedy and painful suffering. The author points out that, in Siegfried Sassoon's poem, "On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1928), a short fourteen-line response to the Great War, disenchantment is manifested as cynicism, which establishes the context of the poem as post-war criticism, creating the stylistic technique of poetic social commentary. The paper relates that, while Victorian poetry attempts to criticize the conditions of society, modernism focuses on concrete issues such as Sassoon's contrast of the dehumanizing war and the dehumanizing wall, each a product of man's will to enhance civilization on two different levels.

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"War exists in Sassoon's poem as a transforming image for poetry and the perception of its reality. In condemning Menin Gate, there manifests an overall disapproval for mankind. Sassoon writes, "Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp; / Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone," mocking the excuse which is to replace what has been lost. Following this line he states, "The armies who endured that sullen swamp," a line that is isolated within the poem but comes after this explanation of how the wall is to honor the fallen soldiers. It is possible that Sassoon does this to show the inadequacy of the wall or any memorial in respect to the tribulations the soldiers went through."

Tags:unvictorious, disenchantment, cynicism, dehumanizing, stylistic

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"'Harrison Bergeron' by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a story literally exaggerated to its limit by showing, in the near future, what it means to be equal in every way by having people not being able to show any form of intelligence or creativity whatsoever. When Harrison Bergeron breaks the chains of government oppression, he dies for his failed cause. He dies because he chooses not to conform to the rest of his oppressive society. His parents, George and Hazel, who are nothing more than two bodies under the government's mind control, can do nothing to save their son or seek justice for his death. The story is not only a reflection of the author's concern with controlling the masses through television, but is also an attack on the idea of enforced equality."

Tags:and, dehumanizing, displeasure, effect, enforced, equality, of, television, the, vonnegut, with

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This paper reviews and analyzes the novel "Fight Club". The paper focuses on how the book demonstrates Marxist theories regarding the dehumanizing impact of capitalism on individuals and culture. The paper discusses the author's belief that economics shapes art and culture. The paper then looks at how these theories are applied to the novel's alienated, troubled narrator.

Tags:Marx, communism, capitalism, individuality, society, culture, economics, revolution, individual, dehumanization