Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Eugenesis
- Structure
- References to
the computers
written with
capitals
- 'They' 'Their'
- shows them
as a 'God' like
figure
- 8 stanzas
- each represents a
day in God's creation
of the world
- closing stanza
details breakdown
- Computers 7 day
creation of a 'bad'
world
- God's 7 day
creation of a
'good' world
- ironic as they were
created with the same
structure
- Word Choice
- 'Eugenesis'
- 'eugenics'
- creation of the
'perfect' human
- 'genesis'
- creation of a new
world, from the
Bible.
- symbolism
- 'new night'
- suggests the idea
of the creation of a
new era
- 'molar
monuments'
- suggests how war has been
eliminated and eradicated and is
not like a monument, in the past
- 'small man
with red hair'
- shows rebellion and
basic survival instincts
- 'triggered the
light-oriented
metal cocks'
- suggests the
dawn of a new
era
- 'a safety mark
for thinking'
- shows how humans
weren't allowed any
emotions except
happiness
- 'immortality
came wrapped in
polythene'
- suggests how humans can live
forever due to their 'parts' being
able to be artificially produced and
replaced
- 'machine-tooled
brains'
- suggest that peoples brains
and their capacity to think are
being shaped/sized in a way
that a bit of metal may be
treated
- 'each idea was
sterilized before
it's issue'
- suggests that
free-thinking was not
permitted
- themes
- human's need for
individuality and
to express their
emotions/opinions
- they express
opinion by
protesting out
against the
computers
- how the idea of 'perfect'
isn't all it's made out to be
- people were
unhappy and
protested against
the world which
was created to be
'perfect'
- human's survival
instincts and their need
to be challenged
- the humans were not
content when there were no
negative/bad things in the
world and everything was
'perfect'