martes, 25 de junio de 2013

Brave New World and Sir William Shakespeare

Part 1: John the Savage profile

John the Savage lived in the reservation in New Mexico and his parents were Linda and Thomas (Tomakin, that was the name that savages give to him) the DHC, he is barely a savage because he know how to write and read; also that bring him bad consequences, he is discriminated just like his mother Linda.

When Bernard Marx arrives to the reservation he established a conversation with John, and he felt that they were similar in many ways, Bernard decides to take it to the place he lives because he found that the name of his father was similar to the one of the DHC; also going to the place that John always wanted to visit because his mother told him great things about that place.

Part 2: Comparison between Brave New World and The Tempest

John the Savage                              Miranda
Helmotz Watson                             Prospero
Mustapha Mond                             Ariel

To begin with I will compare Miranda from The Tempe sans John the Savage from Brave New World; we can say that both of them kind of live away from the society Miranda lived in an island, because he was exiled with his father Prospero; and John lived in a savage reservation in New Mexico because his mother Linda was abandoned. John lived with his mother at the reservation and he doesn’t know anyone who was civilized, and rejected by the ones that he lived with; Miranda never have seeing a human being apart from Caliban (spirit) and his father.

To continue I will compare Prospero from The Tempest and Mustapha Mond from Brave New World. Prospero is the father of Miranda and the Duke of Milan, and Mustapha Mond is one of the ten world controllers; we can say that both of them were very important and powerful in their society. A point of contrast here is that Prospero lose all his power and importance because he was exiled and in that island only lived him and his daughter.

Finally I will compare Ariel from The Tempest and Helmotz Watson from Brave New World, both of them are secondary characters, but at the same time help to the development of the history. Ariel is one of the two spirits that Prospero live in the island with and he do all the task that Prospero ask to him, and Helmotz have a feeling of discontent with the World State and share this feeling with Bernard Marx.