Topic 2
Perfection seeks Equality and Freedom
Gattaca is a modern society, where only genetically engineered humans are bound to do professionally qualified jobs with better opportunities, while , the normal born humans are considered defective and are confined to do menial job. Taking the views of Annas in the essay, the outlook of movie Gattaca is a dystopia for me because of its strong opposition to one's freedom of life's choices, spiritual growth and human emotion. The movie along with the book discusses what the world would be like if it was governed by a set of genetically engineered people.
A genetically engineered human possess a genetic structure which makes him more intelligent, better looking, and everything that a human would want to become, which people might assume as utopia. However, for the underdogs like Vincent (in he movie) have default life for the reason that he was an outcome of love of his parents and not an outcome of the best genetic combination of his parents. Decision about what he could achieve and how he would do it was made within ten seconds of his birth. He was made to believe that he was weaker than his brother Anton. Moreover, he lost his right to carry on his father's name. When he says, ' the defect lies within my genes", in the movie when he initially goes for his job interview, the ruthlessness of the society to a normal person, and helplessness of the inner heart is reflected. On the contrary, in the essay, Anna explains that the basic characteristic of human is to have an ability to change the environment without changing the 'humanity' and basic human values, including human rights, which when happens, then will be considered utopia. However, the society of Gattaca completely denies a human's freedom to what he can be and how he can be merely by considering the procedure of his birth, which is rather dystopian.
Similarly, a dystopia is considered as dull place without happiness or goodness. Undoubtedly, the society of Gattaca possessed smartness, beauty, luxury cars, and great scientific inventions; however, it lacked the spiritual awakening of a person. As the movie starts by a note "there is no gene for human spirit", explains that it does not matter if you are not a perfect genetic specimen but what matters is your spirit and zeal towards achieving the goals. When Vincent cleaned the glass, the old man sarcastically said him not to clean it too clearly otherwise he might have a second thought, to which Vincent smartly replies if he cleaned it well, it would be easy for the old man to see Vincent when he would be on the other side of the glass. In the same way, Anton, Vincent’s brother, who is considered perfect outcome of genetic engineering loses the swim race they put on the day Vincent is rejected from the job interview, he said he had nothing to lose. By saying this, I want to ponder that the society constantly tried to push the inner determination of Vincent and made him feel inferior considering the fact that he was not as well equipped as his brother or those who he dreamt to be like, which certainly gives a feel of dystopian world filled with prejudice and discrimination not giving proper opportunity for achievement of human spirit and zeal towards goal. Moreover, Anna explains in the essay that ' humanity must inform science, science cannot inform humanity', considering that a dystopian society would have things taken control over by science providing no space for human spirit and determination.
Thus, since the society of Gattaca limits the freedom of responsibility of human towards their lives and what they can make out of it and distinguishes the normal born for no specific humanitarian reason, I consider it to be dystopia.
Topic 1
The essay, The Man on the Moon', is a science fiction based essay which explains how it would be to have a world with genetically engineered people. The writer explains that the class of people (usually the superior ones) overpowers the other class (usually the weak ones), which I consider is true because of inhibited human nature of an urge to feel superior, and also necessity of for doing so.
The writer in the essay explains that in a society of blind people, a person with normal vision would be considered abnormal, thus any possible procedure would be carried out to make his eyes dysfunction. This indicates that it is a human trait to make his or her contemporary similar to himself. Similarly, in Gattaca, when the underclass people, that is, those people born without undergoing process of genetic engineering were dominated by the genetically engineered people. Those people with normal birth were considered substandard for any kind of qualified professional job and no initiatives were taken to improve or support them. Instead, they were made to believe that they were weak and had no right to dream of becoming somebody who they want to be because they were not considered smart enough to carry out the job. This society never looked upon the interest of dreamers like Vincent, as a result he was forced to change his identity and chase his dreams. If they had found out that Vincent did not belong to their range of society, they would have certainly out casted him from the workplace. Thus, taking in consideration, on how a normal human would react to such situation, it is not impossible that the 'normal' would take over or try to erase the significance of 'the other' who they cannot relate to.
The Nazis, during 1933 - 1945, considered Jewish to be 'the other', who they wanted to get rid of for the mere reason that they believed Jewish were not as good as they were. The Holocaust, which is the mass killing of Jewish people, homosexuals, disabled people by the Nazis can be considered an apt example of how a powerful community reacts to a weaker one to erase any distinction or eradicate the existence of 'the other' from their surroundings. Similarly, taking the reference of the movie Gattaca, the fact that Vincent's father did not want Vincent to carry his name forward because he was considered an exception in the society of Gattaca, so, his genetically engineered brother, Anton got to carry his name forward. By doing this, Vincent's father was trying to eliminate Vincent's identification as his son.
Thus, taking both fiction and history in account we can agree that the superior range of people will certainly try to dominate and eliminate the people different from them to maintain their identity.
Reference : English online
I think your topic 2 is look like you write a movie summary and your topic sentence is not support your eassy topic, you have to more specific what yoy want to say.
ReplyDeleteAnd also in topic 1 annas writes that "superior human seek to control or destroy the other people or vice versa" that means you have to write about what happen if superior human create? and i think your history example is right so yoy just connect history, present example also the movie gattaca but not write the story of movie. And you have to specific about your topic sentence then write brifly about your topic this will help you to connect your paragraph.