Alright, well, we've been reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in my English class, and it's not time to write an essay (gasp).
My teacher came to me specifically to get me to do the topic of religion in the book. For those of you that haven't read the novel, all the religions in the world are replaced by a new religion that worships "Ford" (as in Henry Ford, inventor of the assembly line) as the deity.
Well, my essay is supposed to be about Huxley's criticism of doing such a thing through literary techniques. I figured that tone, allusions, and characters would be my strongest three points. Problem is, I am not very educated on the Bible. I grew up in an agnostic home, so I know very little of the Bible, aside from what I've learned in my historical researches.
I have my tone and characters down, but it's the allusions that are giving me a hard time. So far I've been able to decide to use the story of Adam and Eve and the Crucification of Jesus Christ, as I'm able to show how the novel alludes to them. Now, if somebody could tell me exactly in the Bible I can find these two passages, I would greatly appreciate it as well, but my main problem is the following:
As I was in need of a third allusion, I asked a friend of mine. He does not remember the story very well, so I could be off with my description.
From what he told me, the story is about a town that has lost their faith in God, except for this one family. God tells this family to leave their town, but to never look back. When one of the family members looks back, he turns into stone.
I can link this to the novel because it allows me to use the power of not questioning your faith, or not "looking back" so to speak, as Christianity and Shakespeare, and all these great things that we have now are forgotten by all except the world controllers and kept locked up. "God in the safe and Ford on the shelf" as one of the characters puts it.
Anyway, from what I am able to be told from people I've asked is that it is Old Testament. Now, a friend of mine suggested that I register here and ask for help, so that's what I'm doing.
Now, if anyone has read Brave New World and can give me a better allusion than any of the three that I have I'd appreciate it as well.
My teacher came to me specifically to get me to do the topic of religion in the book. For those of you that haven't read the novel, all the religions in the world are replaced by a new religion that worships "Ford" (as in Henry Ford, inventor of the assembly line) as the deity.
Well, my essay is supposed to be about Huxley's criticism of doing such a thing through literary techniques. I figured that tone, allusions, and characters would be my strongest three points. Problem is, I am not very educated on the Bible. I grew up in an agnostic home, so I know very little of the Bible, aside from what I've learned in my historical researches.
I have my tone and characters down, but it's the allusions that are giving me a hard time. So far I've been able to decide to use the story of Adam and Eve and the Crucification of Jesus Christ, as I'm able to show how the novel alludes to them. Now, if somebody could tell me exactly in the Bible I can find these two passages, I would greatly appreciate it as well, but my main problem is the following:
As I was in need of a third allusion, I asked a friend of mine. He does not remember the story very well, so I could be off with my description.
From what he told me, the story is about a town that has lost their faith in God, except for this one family. God tells this family to leave their town, but to never look back. When one of the family members looks back, he turns into stone.
I can link this to the novel because it allows me to use the power of not questioning your faith, or not "looking back" so to speak, as Christianity and Shakespeare, and all these great things that we have now are forgotten by all except the world controllers and kept locked up. "God in the safe and Ford on the shelf" as one of the characters puts it.
Anyway, from what I am able to be told from people I've asked is that it is Old Testament. Now, a friend of mine suggested that I register here and ask for help, so that's what I'm doing.
Now, if anyone has read Brave New World and can give me a better allusion than any of the three that I have I'd appreciate it as well.
