Formal Assignment #6

Dear Dr. Frankenstein,

 Thank you for the letter that you have sent to me concerning the issues you addressed in the letter, I will be very happy to give you my opinion.  But first let me start off telling you a little about what has happened to me lately.  I am not sure that you know that I have moved on with my life and I am finally alone.  The helicopters finally stopped coming and the tourists finally stopped asking me about “the whip.”  I am very happy now and live my life exactly as I have always seen it.  Even though the death of my mother was a real tragedy to me I managed to get over it.  I have not been looking for a wife ever since the incident with Lenina, and I have learned to be content with the life God has given me.
             Now let’s get back to the questions you were asking me in your letter.  First off you said that you managed to create a fiend, which is nothing really extraordinary in my day, but in your letter you seemed quite amazed that you were able to accomplish quite an experiment.  I am very sorry to hear about all the deaths that have happened to you.  Since my mother has died I can understand how you feel.  So now you say that the fiend as you call it wants you to create a wife for it.  Well let me tell you what I said in my book “science is dangerous; we have to keep it chained and muzzled” (225).  I am sure that you will understand the meaning of this phrase.  It seems to me that you have managed in quite a miraculous way to unchain science, and like I said science is dangerous.  So now that you have the full understanding that science is dangerous and you have experienced it on your own behalf, all I can say is that you must go on searching for your fiend.  I seems as if the fiend does not like being alone.  But for myself having experienced civilization I can truly say that being alone is one of the best decisions I have made.  “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled, And then, I ate my own wickedness” (241).  This is what has happened to me, and I decided that civilization was to be left alone, just like I wanted to be left alone.  “Anywhere. I don’t care. So long as I can be alone” (243).
             Now you have put quite a rather interesting question, you asked me what you should do with the fiend?  I don’t think that the fiend is quite a harm as you suspect it is.  It must be very hard for the fiend to find a person that will understand it and I know how that feels.  But if you manage to get inside it’s head tell it that civilization is rotten maybe it will make a rational decisions and go on with it’s life.  I think that after the fiend realizes that all this harm that it is doing is for no good it will go to be alone, just the same way I am.  And I can truly tell you that the fiend will be happy just the same way that I am happy.  I have tried to change things around, I tried my hardest to make the people realize that the way that they are being conditioned is not the truth.  I tried my hardest to tell them the truth.  The controller had the Bible, and many books hidden in his safe, which did reveal the truth and yet he was holding them back, because he was afraid that the books will arise instability.
             Another question that you asked that made my eyes bulge out, is whether you made a mistake in creating this fiend.  Let me start off answering this question with a quote that is in the book.  “No civilization without social stability.  No social stability without individual stability” (42).  This quote can give you a little insight on how the world of my day works.  It all comes down to civilization, it seems that civilization is the goal that we are striving for.  But for me the goal is to know what is going on so I can make a rational decision on whether civilization is what I want to be involved in.  And like I have decided civilization is not my choice.  But Dr. Frankenstein when you created the fiend you created social instability, and that does not lead to civilization.  Because without individual stability there is no social stability and no civilization.  You have made something that supports my thinking.  I realize that you have made something that is better for every generation that is to come.  I hope that you Dr. Frankenstein never have the chance to see the things I have seen.  In my world things are so reversed and unethical that I would rather choose to be alone.  I praise God every day for making me through my mother and not through conditioning.  And I realize that it was God alone who could have done such a thing.
             Now I am working on a plan to try to make more people realize that there is more to life then soma and holidays.  I am trying to make them see that there is a God and people do actually get married and live happily ever after.  But I have a though job ahead of me.  I know that without the help of others I will not be able to succeed.  I hope that my advice will help you in all your questions.  Thank you for the letter, it was great to hear from you again.  I hope that you will make the most rational decisions and you don’t have to make my advice.  May God be with you in all the decisions that you make.

 Your Loyal Friend,

 John
 
 

                                                Works Cited

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1932.

Shelley, Mary.  Frankenstein.  New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.
 
 

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