Lust does not involve all the responsibility and commitment, but no one can lust forever. Lust pleasures can only last for a short period of time. Lust can not offer anyone comfort or stability, providing that it also does not give support or encouragement. Lust offers nothing more than pleasure, which does not always prove its worth. Love, on the other hand, makes everyone feel wanted.
However, if we as children were never taught those early values of teamwork then that brings up great question to where our communities would be. There is not one person in history that built something entirely on their own. Based on the virtues of individualism and self-sufficiency that Thoreau expressed in his essay, it is apparent that our modern day communities would crumble due to the lack of detail, teamwork, and sense of urgency. One of Thoreau’s main points in his essay is to let go of detail. He feels that details cause error and error in turn causes unnecessary stress.
Also, knowledge and history have been thrown away in the hopes of creating a world unaffected by its past and unthreatened by progression. As well, religion and spirituality no longer exist. Lastly, the true meaning of happiness is reversed becomes a temporary aspiration. Ultimately, the cost of creating a so called perfect society is the creation of a world that is decidedly not perfect; all aspects of society are negatively affected. While trying to create the perfect world, what love is and how it is shown have completely been morphed and are now meaningless aspects of society.
Brave New World Personal Analysis Near the end of my book I found this quote that made me think a different way of the whole book and life in general. The quote is: ‘But I like the inconveniences.’ ‘We don’t,’ said the Controller. ‘We prefer to do things comfortably.’ ‘But I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom ,I want goodness. I want sin’ ‘In fact’ said Mustapha Mond, ‘You’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’ ‘All right then,’ said the savage defiantly, ‘I’m claiming the right to be unhappy’ (240). John or also known as The Savage really like how all the factors of positives and negatives in life which life is worth living for.
These warnings are relevant to today’s society because technology and media are changing the way we look at human feelings and rights, trying to avoid a society where people are not so much denied human rights such as free speech and expression but conditioned to not care. Other than the obvious Utopian references of a perfect society and everything being happy go lucky and on-the-surface and the themes of conditioning and prejudism, what else is there to "the Brave New World"? Family plays no role what so ever in Brave New World. No mother or fathers. Babies are born with no family.
He felt that people would live in a much better place is this could be accomplished. In the song Lennon says, “Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky.” This evidently proves that Lennon was not affiliated with organized religion. He did not believe in the idea of heaven or hell. He felt that if people worried less about whether they were going to heaven, hell or purgatory, they would be able to live their lives more freely than they would with religion. Lennon’s perception was that people lived their lives according to the guidelines of a set religion and did not live accordingly to what they would believe without the presence of religion.
The view behind this thought process is utilitarianism, and at first glance, there seems to be little to argue about. If morality is about choosing the good course of action, then what can be better than happiness? Certainly from the utilitarian viewpoint, the requirement for a moral act is that it is good for other people. The problem is that 'happiness' is a very subjective word, the weight of which is hard to pin down. Firstly, it is impossible to measure, and secondly no one is able to correctly judge the amount of happiness promulgated by any one action, primarily due to the fact that the full extent of the future cannot currently be known until it happens.
No one should tell an individual how to live, unless what a person says to do is simply what you believe about your way of life. This potentially leans towards an individualist mindset, unless each one believes to live for serving or pleasing the needs of others. Generally this way of thinking usually doesn’t exist in society. Kant also discussed “A Priori,” which means knowledge before experience. He states that you don’t need experience to know something.
Only Gatsby is portrayed as a person who fought for love and in a way can be viewed as a “hero” and the only one that has a bit of decency in him, however he was far from a perfectly moral person. One can sense alienation and separation between the characters even on a family level. There aren’t any shared values between them and even though one can see that the society is lost there is no solution offered on how to change the society for the better. As a result of these qualities the novel The Great Gatsby is a successful modernist novel representing a disillusioned society whose members share no common sense of moral values. The comparison between the Valley of Ashes and the Eggs serves to portray how people in society had everything they could ever want, but were still empty inside their souls.
Pi presented the audiences with two different stories and, although one does seem more reasonable, he never really clarifies which story is true. The audience can blindly accept the ‘story without animals’ or can even accept the ‘better story’, as it is still a possibility, as it has not been denied. It is even possible that Pi did not actually share the truth, and the actual tale was never told. Amid all these choice the audience can get lost in confusion. One can even get confused as one tries to analyze and compare the two stories.