Omega Embryos(My talk on the author's philosophy)

Reading this book gave me a great knowledge on the philosophy that the author was trying to tell us. A philosophy that I can see through this book meant that the author was really clear on his philosophy, although I might be wrong, it still means that I have a philosophy of my own that I have learned from the book.

You know why we say “Good morning” to each other? Toward my information from a philosopher, (Korean novel) a human saying good morning to each other is just a natural instinct developed through ages, an instinct that mankind has naturally made to use as a good manner. But that “manner” is just a shelter to cover up the other reason. The reason why we say good morning is to make mankind conquest the loneliness, and a way to make more allies naturally.
If we say “Good Morning” to another person, the person who gets the greeting shows affinity to the person who said good morning. But the person who said good morning thinks it’s a good manner that he/she had learned from his/her parents, but it’s an unconscious thought to the person (who greeted) that he/she doesn’t want to make enemies.
A human natural instinct says that every one is an enemy except for him or herself, but this thought is not selfish but it is an unconscious thought that people don’t know what they are thinking about. Anyway, because of this instinct, people start greetings to make friend.
Think about it, if you had a person next to you that had the same something (for example taste or likes) would you hate him or like him? Definitely liking him is the natural response; it is just like that. If you say good morning, the other person realizes that it is a good morning and realizes that both of them have the same good morning! So naturally they both show good feeling toward each other, because of the unconscious thought that they both have the same “Good morning.” (I’m sorry, I tried to translate it into Korean-English but that didn’t work out that well.;)

What I am saying, the philosophy that I am saying is just the similar philosophy that I am thinking about.
Why do we have sex? Is it just for pleasure? Is it for reproduction? I don’t think so… There are different reasons why I think sex is just for these reasons. I don’t think it’s for pure reproduction, because that is for only animals. Animal’s natural instincts are to reproduce themselves. Only mankind has the rights to have sex with pleasure, well in a different way. Sex is made through pleasure, that’s the way sex works, but animals don’t have the rights to realize that pleasure in their consciousness, but that pleasure is only occurred in animal’s physical nerves which cause sex (such as sperms…) to work. Which means that animals don’t sex with pleasure on conscious (think about it, a male animal doesn’t use condoms to have sex for fun) but instinctively does it for reproduction. Only Mankind has the rights to have sex on pleasure, that’s why people created all these kind of stuffs to control the birth, but just to have fun.

I don’t think that mankind does sex only for pleasure, it is right that they have fun with sex, but in normal cases, I think it’s because of love. Why would people say “Do not sex with anyone else until you marry?” It’s because marriage comes out from love, it is the symbol of love. Marriage means that you are together with a lover, a lover to give your virginity. People knows that marriage=love with unconsciousness so they say that. Marriage means that you are having children, and children come out through sex.

The philosophies that I just talked about both have a relation, a relation that comes out from the human instinct, unconsciousness.

I think this is the philosophy of life that the author is trying to tell us. A main character knowing about love through Shakespeare’s unique explanations and literature.
Unfortunately the main character couldn’t resist the out view of the society, where sex is just for pure pleasure and reproductive rights vandalized.
I think the author is telling us that without love, human relationship and sex wouldn’t be able to connect to each other. The novel has shown only people having sex for fun, without emotions of love; the world is destroyed on the inside.

(I am sorry; I just got a feeling that I should say this, these days I read philosophical and gloomy Korean novels so I tried to give it a try. Since philosophy is the way that you see the world through your consciousness, I gave this a try. You might not understand it, if you don’t I would be glad to explain it to you. It might be hard to you because philosophy is the way an individual looks at the out view of the world. Besides, people say that philosophy starts from a simple fact into a weird, paradoxical thought that no one can agree to it! Sorry about this.)

Epsilon embryos(setting/passage)

The setting I am about to talk about is the setting that was extremely disturbing to me and yet it was so memorable, in a bad way. This setting takes a huge part in the novel, as it takes part as the climax. The madness and the bizarre situation that is somehow unique in the real world (2008), has left a weird dramatic moment into my memories, and made me feel disgusted.
The setting was the place near the lighthouse where John used it as shelter to repeating his continuous ceremony. The ceremony made the setting very disturbing but memorable (once again, in a bad way). As John rapidly slashes his whip toward to women he had emotions, and with frenzy, he slashes shouting out with insanity.
Here is a passage that shows the insanity of this setting. The passage takes place in the setting as I said the lighthouse and one of the passages makes you kind of remember this and makes you disturbing.

“Oh, the flesh!” The Savage ground his teeth. This time it was on his shoulders that the whip descended. “Kill it, kill it!”

This passage shows kind of what happens in that setting, if you just see the passage without the book, you can’t notice the setting, but you can notice the situation that is happening.

Though I didn’t feel much of that refusal on the other setting, it was just that they were dark and gloomy. Telling the whole of the settings, I think that all of them weren’t that bad compared to the climax setting.

Delta embryos(Mood)

(Not including this blogging project, there are many times where I have read dystopia novels. In my memory, I read 4 dystopia novels in English and over 10 in Korean. Reading Korean Dystopia novels is kind of a natural, or somehow instinctive act to Koreans. Koreans usually want to understand the philosophy of the world toward morals and experiences that are written in the book; deep and a profound knowledge is what Koreans thirst to analyze and understand. That’s the reason why there are dystopian novels everywhere I see in Korea. I am not sure with Americans but I am sure about this on Koreans. Anyway, almost every dystopia novels that I have read had almost the same mood, it’s like a rightful substance that this particular mood should be in a dystopia novel.)

Of all the dystopia novels that I have read (including the last blogging assignment) I have found similarities in the mood of these novels.
Almost all the dystopia novels I have read had the mood of gloominess.

Dystopia is the opposite meaning of Utopia, Utopia means an imagination of a human world that would be the best for humanity but dystopia is the fiction world that would be the worst for humanity, definitely it matches to the gloomy feeling of people.

Through this novel, I can clearly see the mood because of the world that leads humanity to corruption. It was kind of familiar to me because it was the same mood of all the dystopian novels that I read. But it also kind of made me sad about John.
The thoughts that “If” John didn’t get to know the existence of the World State then he wouldn’t have to end up like that. After his death, a long silence and an empty mind filled with endless depression made me think about this ending repeating it over and over again...

I think that the mood of the novel makes the reader also feel like that. I thought the ending would be some how happy or at least the protagonist surviving, but this novel left nonsense ending with the mood of the whole story entering to my emotions.

Gamma embryos(Main Characters)

John is one of my favorite characters in this novel. John appeared as the main character not in the first part, but during the beginning, during the process of his arrival to World State. He shows emotion on love and refuses sex with Lenina even though she is the person he lays his emotions on, but yet I don’t think he understands his emotions toward her that much, maybe because of the isolation from society, or because his concept on love was taught by a book, a writer named Shakespear. He reveals the truth that emotions are not only discovered toward literature but are discovered during the moments of feeling.

Mustapha Mond, one of the world’s ruler, that much he is a kind that antagonist usually are, not saying that he is an antagonist but he acts out the part where antagonists usually do. Most powerful character in this novel, he takes the part to isolate the misbelieves on the World State Society. He has strong opinions on the stability, control, and happiness is much more important than the non-emotion humans, Which this makes me hate this guy more, for he is one of the important parts on the constitution of this society. This character reveals the truth that there is always an individual that is a strong supporter to his/her’s beliefs that is opposed to others.

Henry Foster, Bernard Marx, is one of the main characters of the novel, but is just a flat character to my topic. They have a disgusting competition toward Lenina as a sex partner, its shown in the novel that these two people have a strong desire for possession on Lenina, but unlucky for them, Lenina doesn’t give attention to both of them but gets obsessed with John. These two people show that people can always show obsession or desire for possession toward other people.


Lenina is not to be called as a main character but is a main character and does an important part to give John a sensational emotion toward her. She takes an important part on motivating John to love, and cause madness toward himself. She is not the character I hate but she is not the character I like. The reason is because she is totally adapted to the World State society’s culture but it wasn’t really her fault. But I can’t hide disgusted feeling as she tries to seduce John, not knowing the emotion that John has toward her. This tells about how people can be obsessed in a bad way and shows unnecessary desire for possession.

Beta embryos(Current Situation)

After reading this novel, I had found a surprising connection between the real worlds.

Prostitution, that is the topic I am going to talk about.
In the novel, sex was used in a wrong way, but also in the real world it is the same.

Prostitution is all around the world, it has been used since the ancient days, and yet I think that no one is really caring about this problem.
What I also found surprising is that even though prostitution is found illegal, it seems like its legally fine because there is nothing that the government doing in my opinion.

It’s funny because I find that promiscuity and having sex for pure fun and getting or giving money for it seems the same in my point of view. There is prostitution with little kids in now a day, and that is the truth, also in the novel it was shown that anyone could have sex for pleasure and with anyone.

There is a reason why promiscuity and prostitute are the same. Promiscuity is just sleeping with anyone and prostitution is just sleeping with anyone, receiving money.
In the novel, part of it, sex comes out, just sex with no love, but just for fun, and it describes how people in the novel satisfy their lust. It is just the same as the real world, greed starting all of it. The desire toward money makes people become a prostitute.
Still in the novel, it shows a way to clear that problem, but in a bad way. John, the main character does a spiritual ceremony, which is whipping. Even though the ceremony is kind of a bad way, I was able to figure out what can solve the problem.

Religion, in the novel, John was able to avoid the World State’s corrupted constitutions toward religion. His solid beliefs toward religion have saved him, but the bad way has leaded him to his suicidal.
It is shown that religion, (especially Christianity) has leaded out people from the corrupted substance. I have seen many criminals that have received forgiveness for their sins, murderers, burglars etc…. I think, no, I know that religion is the only way to save you from degraded substances, emotionally, Physically, Mentally, and Spiritually.

Also, the reason why I am saying this is because I had some help from Christianity as well, but unfortunately I am unable to tell my story.

Alpha embryos(Theme)

I read the book “Brave New World,” and it was pretty difficult to understand compared to my last dystopia novel, “Fahrenheit 451.” This book is not some book that tells about the reduce of the population in the world, but it is about cloning, and a world where you can satisfy all your desire and lust. In this world, the word “love,” the concept of it, doesn’t exist.

This world uses sex as a fun game, not as people loving each other but just having no relationship, having no love, just sex. To compare this world to 2008, the world in the novel doesn’t use sex as a way to have babies but this place is where you enjoy sex, and then you clone the babies.

What is sex? What I think about sex is that it is a holy ceremony where lovers share their love and make a relationship. God does not refuse sex, but appropriate sex is to be by married couples. But in this world, promiscuity is like a reward, like a disco party that present teenagers enjoy. Because of this reason, the concept of “love,” has disappeared from the citizens of that world, making the emotions dry and lust filled.

Reproductive rights are to have sexual contact and than have babies, but in this novel, it is refused to be like that. They remove the ovaries of woman, and then clone the people so that they don’t get old, nor feel love.

So I say that the theme is, “Technology has solid control of reproductive rights and human relationship.” The reason why I am saying this is because of the world in the novel. The society isolates reproductive rights and just use sex as pure pleasure and also the society clones human instead of allowing reproduction to delete the concept of “love” in the cloned humans. Cloning is made by technology, so I say that this is the right theme for the novel.

The theme of this novel is extremely important to the teenagers in 2008. The reason why I am saying this is because these days’ teenagers just play around with sex.
Abortion is legal in America, contraception all over the world. These were all made by technology and science.
There are a similar side within the novel and the real world. The novel shows that people having sex just for fun, with no love, I think that it is the similar as the real world in 2008. People are just having sex for their own desire, which makes a lot of abortion going on; also the technology makes a big part. Such as porn, it’s through the Internet. If there is a married couple, and the husband can’t control himself watching porn, the couple’s relationship would break easily.

Even though, there is no control in reproductive rights (China exception haha) in 2008, there are many bad things going around with sex, enforcement sex, enjoyment sex, and other bad stuff.