Contexts

Good afternoon. Today I will be exploring how context impacts the value within text.

Brave New World a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley and Blade Runner, a post modern film by Ridley Scott are two dystopian speculative fiction texts which address both the tension between humanity and the natural world through as the tape states the ‘taming of nature’ and the true notion of progress. Both texts have been strongly influenced by the historical, cultural and social contexts of the composer therefore affecting the values explored within each of the texts.

Brave New World was first published in 1932. It was as stated in the tape recording a cautionary tale of Huxley observations of the American society in the early 20th century, and is seen as Heather Stuart suggests as a prophetic novel in that it anticipates our society today.When Huxley started writing the novel there were tremendous political, economic and philosophical changes taking place in both Europe and America. Brave New World depicts a society where humanity is carefree and technologically advanced. Both welfare and poverty have been eliminated and everyone is potentially happy. et there is irony due to the fact that the things that have been taken away in order to achieve this are