BNW in relation to "in the wild" (1 Viewer)

[bernz]

could somebody please explain to me the nature of the wild with relevance to the importance of humanity's relationship with the natural world at the time Huxley wrote BNW?

 

[KFunk]

I'm writing that essay at the moment as well.

Try and show the statement he's making about the world at the time (and potential future manefestations of what's going on in the world) in BNW. Look at what it means to be "in the wild" in the text and how this can be related to Huxley's context. It might help to define what you take "in the wild" as meaning. Also what you think "relationship with the natural world" means. Natural you can take as refering to a whole number of things like natural rhythms (look at the nature of birth, life and death in the BNW) or natural emotions (look at how they are controlled in the BNW eg. soma). Then you take those things and look at how they relate to Huxley's context eg. eugenics used to control who can have children.

Also, some general research into his context will give you a lot to work with. Try starting here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s

Good luck .

 

[Grobus]

I always related BNW to the political events of the time:

WW1
The decline of the British Empire
The Rise of Facism
The Great Depression

Things like that and Id usually relate it to the human pursuit of stability and what extreme stability (like in the world depicted) would cost us.

 

[toreshi]

post-modernism