Jaddesign Jesus từ Kongle, Cameroon

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11/25/2024

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2018-07-11 21:31

Phượng Ẩn Thiên Hạ - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyệt Xuất Vân

I'm left with strangely mixed feelings about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. First, was it an amazing experience that everyone should have? Yes. Unquestionably. Second, did it do everything it could have? No, actually. There's a weird feeling of incompleteness to Brave New World. If I had to put my finger on why it felt that way, I'd have to say that it has to do with the novel having a hard time figuring out its own main character. Lenina and Bernard get about as much time narrating their own stories as each other near the beginning of the book; however, the book often lapses into third person omniscient asides that don't look at any specific characters but serve more like establishing shots in the films. Near the end, John ("the Savage") takes over the limelight, but his quest to shun civilization moves all too quickly and feels too tidy up until its end, which (although as I just said, it does arrive too quickly) is actually terrifyingly wonderful. Putting that aside for the moment, the book does offer plenty of things to love. First and foremost is Huxley's vision of the subversion of human nature. Brave New World depicts a society which is designed in a way that few conceptual societies have ever been - the social mores of Huxley's "civilization" are carefully planned by the society's highest echelons. Moreover, rather than attempting to suppress physical desire, Huxley posits that a totalitarian society would be better off harnessing it. The way in which Huxley's society embraces sexuality while destroying passion is about as scary as it is brilliant. The eventual commentary by "World Controller" Mustapha Mond, near the end of the novel, does feel a bit plot-dump like, but it still serves as an interesting philosophical debate - particularly the way he states that their society has rejected truth and beauty in favor of happiness and comfort, taken to the most extreme extents possible. Exactly what extend people have to sacrifice comfort and happiness to achieve truth and beauty is certainly a topic for debate, but Huxley's warning about embracing only happiness and comfort, to the exclusion of beauty and truth, is scary in its endgame - specifically, that rejecting truth and beauty in favor of extremes of comfort and happiness might actually work for the intended goals of that society. And, when compared with how much closer our own society moves to rejecting truth and beauty in favor of happiness and comfort, the message's relevance becomes all the more clear.

Người đọc Jaddesign Jesus từ Kongle, Cameroon

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.