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punishment but instead he regards his exile with almost relief. This relief is brought on by the fact that Watson was secretly miserable in the society he lived in where, ironically, he was supposed to be perpetually happy. Once Watson is sent to the island he will finally be able to write freely and find some purpose in his life as he employs, “the power”, he always suspected he possessed. Through his exile, Watson will likely find a truer form of happiness than he had ever experienced from his life

1. “But the tears are necessary. Don’t you remember what Othello said? ‘If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.’ There’s a story one of the old Indians used to tell us, about the Girl of Mataski. The young men who wanted to marry her had to do a morning’s hoeing in her garden. It seemed easy; but there were flies and mosquitoes, magic ones. Most of the young men simply cannot stand the biting and stinging. But the one that could-he got the girl.”

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is novel depicting the “utopian society” which is ironically not ideal. The people who live in this brave new world are callous, uniform, and slaves to their government. While it is not as blatant and outrageous as George Orwell’s 1984 that the government closely monitors their people, they watch so their citizens so much that they threaten to send the main character, Bernard Marx, away for having a “boring” sexual life (Huxley 98). The motif of alienation constantly

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