This Video was pretty interesting!

So I found the video to be pretty interesting in the sense that we as students are all exactly as the communitiy around us. If you think about that it is true. We all dress about the same, well within the same cliques or styles. We talk the same. We take the same educational classes. In a sense, we are the same. However, unlike Brave New World, we all are able to think for ourselves. Our sole purpose may be to contribute to the economy and live our lives out that way, however we have choices. We are not genetically programmed to fufill a certain machine's needs.
We do work, but we have the choce of when and where we work.

Other than this working as being somewhat of a parallel, the one parallel that was a "red flag" to my attention was the point in the video where he addressed the condition of ADHD and the fact that most people nowadays seem to have it. We as a society are constantly bored looking for the next thing to  occupy our attention, whether it be technology, food, sports, or even on the harsh terms of drugs and alcohol. Likewise, in Brave New World, the people turn to Soma to relieve them from any boredom: "What you need is a gamme of Soma." Soma is the fix, the excitement in their manipulative world.

On another note, we are taught throughout school what is right and wrong through the eyes of the teacher. Isn't this too a parallel to Brave New World. They are taught what they can and canot do to fufill their life purpose. But who is really in charge of the right and wrong?

This video was indeed an eye opener of how society is slowly starting to resemble that of Bravc New World by our lack of concentration and our ability to easily be consumed by what is around us.

At least this isn't dealing with the Tempest anymore.

While reading chapter 3 i realized how easy it was for the government to shelter society from treasuring experiences and replace those experiences with synthetic pleasures.
Infants are tempted with books and flowers and then shocked when they go to grasp them they are electrically shocked. This is a way of showing harm to what was once a pleasure. In a way it is like the idea of a child burning his hand on a hot stove to realize that he should not touch a hot stove again. If the children are caused pain for what they desire then soon enough they will no longer find pleasure in it.

On a different note, women are able to feel all of the symptoms of a pregnancy artificially. With thoughts like “my baby… the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure!”  Women are no longer able to experience the feelings of carrying and birthing a baby due to the new manufacturing technique, so those who desire such feelings are able to consume a “pregnancy substitute.”

Also, people are encouraged to be promiscuous and change partners regularly to keep happy. “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.” If one is able to have whatever he wants, what is keeping him from being unhappy? Nothing.

To me the quote refers to Henry Ford’s assembly line, but by the means of the people and their lives. In Brave New World, people are birthed to do their jobs and nothing else. There sole purpose is to fulfill the job that they were embedded to do. The must be “obedient men,” men who enjoy fulfilling their duties rather than acting against them. This quote justifies Ford’s thoughts on how life should be. Life should be manufactured and synthetic, not real.

Let's give this topic a shot...

Well okay, this my view of  what the blog promp is asking of me.  There are too many controversial and varying interpretations of "The Tempest" to compare; however, I will compare a few of them.

In discussions of "The Tempest", one controversial issue has been that Shakepeare leaned more towards imperialism when writing this play. Aime Cesaire, supports this idea through her verion of the play called "A Tempest,"
which shows Caliban and Ariel as being enslaved against their will. This is  one way of looking at it, however it may not have been what Shakespeare intended.

On the other hand, others such as Meredith Skura, view that those critics viewing "The Tempest" as a postcolonialist piece "flattens the text into the postcolonialist discourse and eliminates  what is characteristically 'Shakesparean'." Shakespeare often wrote according to his time period so who is to say which he meant since both were occuring at the point in time.

How I read it I mostly believe it to be more imperialism. caliban and Ariel, like Cesaire had stated are indeed held against their will and forced to learn Prospero's ways, as is Ferdinand; therefore the views of this paly to me are very imperialistic.