Literature HERE I COME!

i just had this wacky idea that i should revise Literature via blogging, by penning my thoughts down (of the subject matter) on my entries.

i hope its useful. PLEASE LET IT BE. please. (:

Okay, here's the quote-

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation - sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man -Charles Summer.

The two texts that I'm studying now The Handmaid's Tale & Brave New World, are satirical warnings of our inherent future, cautioning us of the dangers.

Since both political systems were inspired by Utopian ideals, the ideologies of both worlds have subsumed the right to define their worlds as 'true' models with grand notions that they elevate humanity to ideal heights, where it is seemingly decorated by the intellect of man. Paradoxically, both worlds in fact show the exact opposite. In Gilead, a puritan morality is stiflingly used as the value pivot upon which the ideology leverages itself. On the other hand, in the World state, Huxley has made no pretentious claims. More shockingly, the need to even incorporate morality as a gauge of humanity has become an obsolete and outdated concept. In fact, in both worlds, man is so oppressed that the average man is not given the capacity to develop his intellect, let alone the ability to have the opportunity to 'decorate the true grandeur of humanity'.

With that, in both worlds, regardless of who the fictional architects might be, it appears apparent that it was not an intellectual mind, motivated by moral ideals and a desire to elevate humanity, that created these worlds. Instead, we witness the case of Gilead, where it was clearly motivated by true brutal politics that was the key driving force that resulted in the creation of Gilead and in the world state. Through this i can only speculate that a rather misguided myopic political mind concocted such an amoral utopia of this nature.

Argument 1: The well being of humanity is sacrificed at the alter of a repressive political god to both worlds.

The poignant fact that the World State in Huxley's brave new world sees the Bokanvoshy process as 'one of the major instruments of social stability' although it amounts to 'a series of arrests of development' where 'the normal growth' is checked and the mutilation of life becomes an institutionalized process because of the state where humanity becomes the product that is callously customised in batches.

In Gilead, through Offred's personal tale we are captivated and in stupefied awe of how she has been imprisoned in a caste that now defines her very existence in terms of her physical capacity to be a 'two-legged womb'. Her sole role is give birth to a child, after which she will be expected to give the child up in the name of the greater good of the system. She therefore, serves a purely economical role where her maternal capacities are not even considered worthy of the slightest consideration. Unsurprisingly, we see Janine, another handmaid, teetering over an abyss that borders of madness into which she apparently plunges. Robbed of the children she has in the past as well as the child who was born a 'shredder', she is plunged in a vacuum of meaningless emptiness that is her lot in this world.

Clearly both systems are specifically designed to prevent the true grandeur of humanity to develop. Instead, both condone repressive dehumanizing measures that seek to suppress and sacrifice humanity for the political system.