First of all, the video was very interesting and creative. I thought it was awesome how Sir Ken Robinson drew out the pictures to describing his sayings. The pictures actually help me understand the topic of the video better because I am a visual person. There were some similarities between Sir Ken Robinson’s video, RSA Animate-Changing Education Paradigms, and Brave New World. For example, in the video, Robinson drew at student being medicated and sitting in his desk; while the teacher said, “Take your pills and focus!” (4:52). The student is being drug in order for him to concentrate on education, instead of being distracted by others things such as iPod, T.V. advertising, and computers. The pill helps control and brainwash the students into focusing on the “boring things”.  Similar to this, in Brave New World, the people gather together and take a drug called soma (81). This drug help take the people into a higher dimension mentally, forgetting the physical world. They want to achieve happiness and worship the Fordship. Soma seems like a technique used to help control the people. Furthermore, in the video, Robinson drew each department of the school (6:54). Students go to school and have different kind of classes that they take. Each class taught a different subject; therefore, as students attend, they are being taught and learning varies of things. Just like this, in the novel, from developing in a tube to little children, they are condition through the process. They are taught to hate the cold and love the heat. They are brainwashed that family and relationships are bad things. In addition, Robinson states that students are being produces as batches through age. In the novel, Bokanovsky‘s Process was the production of thousands of twins. They graduate in groups and work on the same thing as groups. 

Brave New World: Chapter "Peb"

Mustapha Mond said, "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." I believe that he means that the machines cannot function without the tending of the humans. Without humans, the wheel would not even turn and just lay there. Humans are created to turn and maintain the machine. However, it cannot be any man who is created, it must be a man that follow and do what he is told. He should and like what they are doing and do not question what he are doing. Another way of looking at this is that the wheel is the circle of life, in order for life to proceed, humans control in a certain way. They can only live to a certain age, do certain things, and have certain abilities. If humans are not control then the humans can died out. In order to accomplish this method, the human experiences are manipulated to control the desired outcome, such as family and monogamy. For example, Mustapha Mond said, “…Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! Maniacally, the mother brooded over her children (her children)…” (37). He manipulated others to believe that families were such horrible relationships. The bonds between families are weird and crazy things to have. By manipulating others to believe this, they do not want people to desired bond with each other. A mother’s love is view as something scary and dirty. By destroying the bonds, it is easier to made people listen and obey. Furthermore, as Henry Foster said to the Assistant Predestinator and Fanny said to Lenina that “every one belongs to every one else” (47). They all believe that no one owns the other. Every one is sharing every one. Unlike our view of being married to only one person, their view is that every one is married to every one. There is not a personal bond that can develop within two people. They are going from one partner to another quickly. It seems that they are trying to destroy bonds. Bonds can affect the development of emotions in humans. Emotions can lead to rebellions in the humans. The people want to create certain kind of people to do certain jobs. For this to happen, emotions must be controlled.            

Preparing to Write About The Tempest Response

In discussions of The Tempest, the major controversial issue is that whether if Shakespeare did or did not emphasis on imperialism. On the one hand, Aime Cesaire argues that Shakespeare in fact did focus on imperialism through his version of The Tempest called A Tempest. For example, Caliban replied back to Prospero that “…Except to jabber in your own language so that I could understand your orders…” In the early sixteenth century, the Europeans came over and taught the Natives their language so they would understand the Europeans. The main purpose of teaching them was so the Europeans could use the Natives to their own benefits. They were new to the world and needed to learn and study the new environment. Therefore, since the Natives knew their surroundings well, they were used to allow the Europeans of such knowledge of the new world. Prospero stood as the Europeans while Caliban symbolized the Natives. Cesaire defends the theme of imperialism in The Tempest. On the other hand, George Will contends that most people are trying to read between the lines too much. For instance, Will stated, “By “deconstructing” or politically decoding, or otherwise attacking the meaning of literary work, critics strip literature of its authority”. He believed that The Tempest may be not based on imperialism. It could have been created to entertain Shakespeare’s audiences and people are taking the play into serious consideration. Shakespeare might have thought of a different theme for the play and it could have been totally different from the theme of imperialism. Will proved the point that what if imperialism was not Shakespeare’s main purpose.

 However, my own view is that Shakespeare did emphasis on imperialism. Shakespeare could have written The Tempest differently without even mentioning Caliban in the play. The purpose of Caliban was to reveal the Europeans’ control on the Natives. Shakespeare wanted to demonstrate to his audiences the treatment of the Europeans to the Natives. Another evidence is the way how Shakespeare characterized Caliban. Why isn’t Caliban portray as an obedient slave instead of a rebellious slave? Shakespeare might have wanted to show how the Natives do not want to be taken over. He wanted to reveal the reactions of the Natives to the Whites’ domination over them. Furthermore, Shakespeare has everyone leave the island. Shakespeare could have suggested that the Whites do leave the New World and leave everything alone. By giving the Natives back their own land and returning back to the Old World. Shakespeare seemed to elucidate imperialism in his play, The Tempest.