Questions regarding Brave New World:
-What is Huxley's opinion regarding the concept of utopia as a whole?
-What was Huxley trying to prove by having John hang himself?
Question relating both Brave New World and 1984:
-What do the differences in the "utopias" of 1984 and Brave New World demonstrate about the possibility of variety in the concept of a utopia?
Monday, December 5, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Communist Utopia-Thomas Hornung
-What about this painting indicates communism?
-What is the artist's view on communism?
-Explain the title.
Communism is indicated by the restriction in colors and the concealment of the little existing color. It shows the limitation in a communist society, and the colorful bricks concealed by the dull gray represent the freedoms taken away from the people. The eyes that are constant in their placement down the road also indicate that people are always being watched or that their freedom has been stripped.
The artist has a negative opinion of communism. He sees it as extremely restricting and unfair; the colors indicate that his opinion of a "communist utopia" is disbelief, that this uniform dullness is what would result from an attempt at such an idea. Overall, he views it as a bad and over-restricting system that leads to nothing.
The artist seems to view a communist utopia as an extreme oxymoron-adding to the irony of the word "utopia" (meaning a perfect world) being attached to a dull, uniform painting. The title is saying that in a communist society, there is no perfect world, no utopia, to be found. Perhaps he was painting this as a response to something that someone said about the prospect of a perfect world in communism; his opinion is clear.
-What is the artist's view on communism?
-Explain the title.
Communism is indicated by the restriction in colors and the concealment of the little existing color. It shows the limitation in a communist society, and the colorful bricks concealed by the dull gray represent the freedoms taken away from the people. The eyes that are constant in their placement down the road also indicate that people are always being watched or that their freedom has been stripped.
The artist has a negative opinion of communism. He sees it as extremely restricting and unfair; the colors indicate that his opinion of a "communist utopia" is disbelief, that this uniform dullness is what would result from an attempt at such an idea. Overall, he views it as a bad and over-restricting system that leads to nothing.
The artist seems to view a communist utopia as an extreme oxymoron-adding to the irony of the word "utopia" (meaning a perfect world) being attached to a dull, uniform painting. The title is saying that in a communist society, there is no perfect world, no utopia, to be found. Perhaps he was painting this as a response to something that someone said about the prospect of a perfect world in communism; his opinion is clear.
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