Brave New World Essay

So, ideas for an essay, hmm? There's so much in this book, I don't even know where to begin. Which is probably why we're supposed to be thinking about this. Right, so if I was going to write an essay about Brave New World, what would it be about?
I suppose I could write about the whole control thing, and lack of individuality. How the government represses the people, keeps them in their places...Especially seeing as we did a lot of discussion on that in class. And if so, I could use 1984 as comparison, and all that good stuff. Maybe contrast surveillance and fear of 1984 with the conditioning of Brave New World. Hmm. Definitely an option.
Or maybe I could write something about religion in Brave New World. Huxley has got some interesting stuff with that. The worship if Ford, the "T," efficiency of the society...and the religions of the "savages." They've turned science into their religion, and they completely look down on all the other religions that existed before they became truly "civilized." I don't know too much yet, and I have not quite finished the book...But there's sure to be more stuff that there would be plenty to base an essay on. Oh, and I could quote from Postmodernism, with the whole Lyotard ideas, and grand narratives and such. Yes, this could work...
And, of course, I may very well not write about one of those topics, as they were really only two. This novel just brings up all kinds of ideas, so who knows what awesome thesis or topics or whatever I might come up with while reading the rest of it, you know? Or even something that I've already thought of, but that I didn't currently remember to add into this blog. Or maybe I did remember, but I just didn't feel like adding it because there's really no need seeing as I've written a pretty good amount anyways. In fact, I think I've already written enough. But anyways, there's a lot of ways that an essay could be written about Brave New World, because it's just so...I don't know, but there's so much that could be talked about in an essay. And Postmodernism and 1984 and quite good potential outside sources...hmmm. We will see. Byes!