The Lens

The lens I am going to use to analyze Things Fall Apart is Feminist take on life. Women have always been the ones who stay home and are told what to do by men. So, in my essay I will explain how in the Ibo culture, women stay at home and take orders from their husbands. They do whatever they ask of and are even beaten for doing the slightest thing wrong. I will also quote from the book that Okonkwo beats his wife in the Week of Peace. He also almost kills one of his wives by shooting his gun at her.

Another thing I will be quoting is the recent study on how more men are getting more jobs than women in retailing, which has always been a women's suite. It was even stated in the US Today" manufacturers have added more than 250,000 men and cut 33,000 women." Which is a big deal going on just stating how the economy is.

So im going to state how women are second compared to men. They are put second in tough times and dont get to make the choices. Men are superior and as it seems, they always will be.

Techno

In the Article written by, Neil Postman, he describes Technopoly as eliminating alternatives to itself. He says that it does not “make them immoral or unpopular, but invisible and irrelevant.” Technopoly has a way of redefining means of religion, family, history, and intelligence. Compared to a Technocracy, it honestly seems horrible beyond belief. In a Technocracy, society is only loosely controlled by social custom and religious tradition and driven by the impulse to invent. They could also believe in God and know that he had created the earth that they live on. I think the big differences that occur are how things are run of course. I think that living in Brave New World would be horrible considering you have no social freedom. You get put into your social status and who you are surrounded with is final. They may sleep with people out of their social status as for that is how it works.

I really liked in this article how Postman said that Arkwright trained workers, mostly children, “to conform to the regular celerity of the machine.” And that is exactly what they did! They used children at any ages to work until they die pretty much and they are just born for that reason. To work. That’s all people were created for. It was a machine process just like everything in Brave New World. Fredrick Taylor plays a huge role in this article because he knew he was right. That humans come and go but machines are what do the work. Machines never make mistakes and technology is the way. That is exactly what Taylor believes. Without technology we have nothing. Technology is the way to success and new futures. But that doesn’t mean we have to go all crazy and be like Brave New World. I for one do not want to become a robot. 

iNOT-Robot

This article that was read really surprised me. I do think that the concepts in this article are very realistic though. People rely so much on technology now a days that it even feels strange for them to loose service when going up to the mountains. Its almost as if loosing a part of them. Weirdly though, this almost seems real. I’ve even seen some movies that can relate. It’s called “Surrogates.” To make it short, regular people started to use these robot bodies so they wouldn’t even have to move from their own homes. They wouldn’t get sick or tired because they control their surrogates from their own homes. I do think if this happened to the world it would be utter destruction. I know this wont happen due to my beliefs, but if it were possible it would be horrible. To be authentically human would be only human, no robot-however that would be-but we would have no programming to us like a robot would. If humans somehow turned into computers or were chipped, they wouldn’t be human anymore. When comparing this article to Brave New World, I don’t think that Bernard is just trying to be romantic when wanting to be different. He believes what he believes like many people in our society. He doesn’t let anybody influence him but just think what he wants to. As I read this article I didn’t agree with what they were talking about. I don’t think this world will be ruled by robots and even if internet gets faster, its bound to happen anyways. So as I finish this up, I am just going to say that I don’t care what kind of treatment people get or medicine they make; people will never be immortal. You cannot cheat death. As soon as you take your first breath when you are born, you are dying from that very breath. As unfortunate as it is, it would take a lot of power that we don’t have to take civilization down.

Better Late Than Never

For my article I read, Examining Mythology in "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. In my opinion, I really thought the writer captured her audience by comparing opening a book, and opening up the wardrobe to Narnia to find an unknown place. Children of all ages, even me, love to read these Narnian stories and feel like they are in a magical and mythical world. C.S. Lewis himself even studied mythology and had definitive ideas of what made a myth and what did not.  In judging the idea of myth and truth, Lewis in his sermon “Myth Became Fact,” deemed that “myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to” (141) and later, speaking specifically in reference to Christianity, “The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.  It happens” (141).  Lewis just simply knew what to write and what made people stay inside the magical world called Narnia.

            The writer of the article seems to underestimate what Lewis is trying to portray in his stories about who the characters are. In the second book with Prince Caspian, Aslan heals an old woman and she knows who Aslan is without ever meeting him before. The writer seems to be very distraught with this and doesn’t understand how this would be possible. What I think that the writer should realize is that most of C.S. Lewis’s readers are Christian and understand this statement. In “The Chronicles of Narnia,” Aslan is a figure of Jesus Christ and if you are one of his followers, than when you see Him for the first time you will know who He is. The writer looks at this as a sort of miscommunication. He Himself can be seen in many ways and is very important to many people in Narnia and in reality. Lewis brings his mythical creatures to life with characteristics that people can relate to like He who we pray to at night and our best friends. The writer just doesn’t understand how myths can have realistic features to them too. In addition, the writer also said that, “the myth and the aspects of the myth, must present in a simple, clear manner in which children can understand.  If the complexity of the myth confuses the children, less people would believe in Aslan because of interruptions one usually achieves as adults, like skepticism, ideology, and negative attributes of the Narnian adults and would halt the acceptance of Aslan and other stories.” Unfortunately, I think she’s wrong.

            Lewis wrote “The Chronicles of Narnia” in a way that most people can understand. He used characters like lions, witches, princes, and princesses so that any age could understand in their own way. The writer and other critics makes it sound like no one will ever understand his books but in fact they’re wrong. People have their own way of making books and myths in their own language and that’s exactly what C.S. Lewis did.