I. "It is as sparkling, as provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive as the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semi-serious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art..." -Martin Green
-Write an essay in which you defend this statement about Brave New World.
II. Analyze the following paragraph from pg. 69. Write an essay that explains this excerpt in the context of all that we discussed in class.
"A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism."
III. A topic of your choosing. I must approve of it prior to writing.
-Write an essay in which you defend this statement about Brave New World.
II. Analyze the following paragraph from pg. 69. Write an essay that explains this excerpt in the context of all that we discussed in class.
"A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism."
III. A topic of your choosing. I must approve of it prior to writing.
