<p>The prompt was:
<br> Creativity is needed in the world today more than ever, because without it, our society will surely acquiesce to the destruction of human individuality. “Given the importance of human creativity, one would think it should have a high priority among our concerns.” Said Mihaly Csikzentimihalyi in “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.” Examples from history and literature attest that creativity is indeed needed in the world today.</p>
<pre><code>For centuries, creativity has led to increased individualism and the invention of objects and methods beneficial to our world. Leonardo da Vinci lived during the Renaissance and contributed many artistic innovations, most importantly, the depth and 3-Dimensional aspects that increased his and contemporary works’ aesthetic significance. He famously uses these innovations in the widely renowned Mona Lisa. His work contributed to the artistic Renaissance, which really was a changing and rebirth of beliefs and a myriad of other things. In the world today, someone with Leonardo’s artistic creativity would most like have been locally recognized, but due to perhaps not being anomalous with contemporary demand, that creativity would have to be suppressed so as to be able to make a financially stable living.
In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, social and mental creativity is kept in check to such a great extent that human individualism has nearly disappeared. The main character, Bernard Marx, is a curious individual, who has followed the social norms. When he goes on a vacation to a Savage Reserve, he encounters John the Savage, a man who is the son of a woman from Bernard’s society. John, however, has not been mentally constraint by the “Brave New World”. Bernard begins to question the social norms he has resided in, and he is eventually exiled by the government as a result of his “radical” thinking. Bernard’s mental and social creativity was not only stifled, but controlled by the government, which assured the lack of individuality. Is this what we want to happen to our world?
In “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag experiences a change in the way he thinks, and begins reading books that were banned by the government to suppress creativity and militate the growth of an individual persona. Guy joins a bunch of rebels and they protect the things found in books to nurture creativity for posterity.
After a careful analysis of Leonardo da Vinci, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, it is evident that creativity is needed more than ever in our world. </code></pre>
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<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
