Summary of Eros and Civilization: Marcuse

Society in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World was an exaggerated society of the United States during the 1920s. These extreme societal boundaries were unknowingly predicting the future. Brave New World developed a liberal trend toward materialistic views on physical pleasure. Throughout the novel, there was dependence on science for reproduction, open-minded views on sex and, ideological concepts that disvalue family and relationship. In the modern-day United States these views are reciprocal and ever-present, however, these views were not directly mirrored, values today are not completely lost.

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

For many of the oppressed class, revolution may be the only viable option. According to Thoreau, revolution is “the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable”. It

In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce

Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.

In societies of past, the oppressor and oppressed are in constant opposition to each other. This fight can be obvious or sublime. However, every time the conflict ends in either a revolutionary reconstruction of society or common ruin.

Soldiers coming back from the war in the east and see that a corruption keep going. They are asking themselves what they fought for and what their mates died for. But they are manage to handle with weapons Daria Kaleniuk states to Afterposten reporter. - A new insurrection will not be peaceful. I sincerely hope that it won't happen. A present regime and a president must to grasp how dangerous to keep doing that they

The plot of the novel “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin has a lot to due with the theme of uncontrollable human nature being driven by desires. In the dystopian society the novel portrays, life is drastically different from contemporary society. In short, the world went into a large war and 99.8 percent of the entire population was exterminated, and the survivors of the war created a new society. This new society is highly totalitarianistic and controls all aspects of the citizens lives’, people are given numbers for names and almost all aspects of life are controlled by the government. The rulers of the society are known as the United State, whose leader is known as the Well-Doer. The United State has a firm belief that all desires are irrationalities and are mercessily targeted. And though desires are considered illegal in the society the narrator of the story and main character D-503 experiences the overwhelming desire of love. D-503 is a well skilled engineer, yet an unconventional individual who is constantly afraid of his uncontrollable sexual impulses, caused by his human nature.

caught in the act of rebellion, against these oppressed and degrading societies that affect the people

In situations of unbalanced power, people will always revolt and work to change their nation’s order, so that equality will be made. Once revolutions have taken their toll, and brought devastation to the land, the ash becomes a perfect place to cultivate a new system of power. The American and French Revolutions were aided, and created, by the Age of Enlightenment’s ideas of personal rights and freedoms. The new knowledge of the era brought change to people who had constantly been forced to live under the rule of their wicked rulers. They harnessed the progressive concepts, and brought riots across the lands of the unjust states. After the fighting, almost all traces of both governments had vanished, and in it’s place, the people’s government

Collier’s Greed and Grievance stands for an argument that intrastate and intestate conflicts are enthused by desire, desire to better their predicament; the cost-benefit analysis indicates that the incentives of a rebellion compared to silence are significantly high, is known as “greed”. The argument presented in “grievance” is that people dissident due to identity dilemmas; for example, ethnicity, social class and religion. Both play a role in an intrastate conflict, sometimes one drives the other and others the each of the argument are the sole conspirator of transpiring a rebellion. However, Collier concentrated on the economic factors that play into a conflict; the yearning for self-enrichment, greed.

**Note: Your introduction must reference all texts discussed in essay, and your thesis must reference the main text that YOU use. Inescapable and Needed In every society, there are people with large amounts of power and money who often misuse their influence for their own benefit. Throughout history, there have been conflicts between the superior, oppressive class, and the poor laborers that work for them. Laborers under this elite class have struggled to survive; they only live because the oppressors need them to expand their power and use them for labor.

The industrial revolution, and the work by Darwin in biological determinism, are described by Radek (2008) as having created a significant distinction between the nature and roles of men and women, during the nineteenth century. While women were allowed to be educated, they were discouraged, as it was perceived to be harmful towards the family, and as a possible cause for uterine dysfunction and madness (Radek, 2008). In addition, biological determinism and social parameters

One major link includes the fight between an oppressed group and their persecutors. Whether it’s the proletariat and the bourgeois in “The Communist Manifesto,” or the inequality of genders in “The Second Sex,” or the flight of the African Americans in the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In all of these texts we are shown how easy it is for one group to abuse their power and create unfair rules and regulations only imposed on the more inferior members of society. Each group of oppressor thrives off of alienating, and subjugating their inferiors.

Throughout history it is evident that human sexuality changes do to religious, governmental and societal influences. The perception of human sexuality has gone through many changes such as being very open and unlabeled activity; to being very “conservative” and a topic that shouldn’t be talked about in public or at all. In any case, human sexuality has always been a topic of interest because humans are sexual beings who want to understand the consciousness of themselves as male or female and see their personal response when encountered in erotic experiences with other individuals. Unlike many other species whose sexual force is strictly for reproduction, human’s sexual drive seems to be driven by many factors that intertwine with each other which leads to very different outcomes. Do to these obscure human emotions and personal gratification, sex is always shown every culture’s art, literature, social norms, and laws.