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1、 A Book Review On Brave New World When reading the introductory passage about this book before starting it formally,the year of 1932 attracts my attention.As we all know,there was so much turmoil in Europe in the year of 1931,severe social problem ,such as depressing economy,high unemployment rate,t
2、he unrest of government,made the whole Europe a horrible place.In such a circumstance,it was spontaneous for people to dream for a better world and just judging from the name its quite easy to consider the book as a picture of an ideal world.However,as it is Brave New World is substantially not a br
3、ave world,but a even more horrible world. In that world,material civilization is in high level and everything is automated.No one would ever worry about what to eat and wear;everyone is enjoying the most comfortable life.Seemed like a wonderful world,its true appearance can be thrilling.In that worl
4、d, Economic prosperity and personal enjoy will become the only philosophy idea ,in the meantime ,the only religion of the whole society. One of the biggest characteristics of that new world is unstable factors ranging from international warfare to personal illness that may influence the material pro
5、duction are all destroyed.For instance, soma,a kind of drug just like todays narcotic drugs ,is used widely.Here are several sentences from the book about soma.Glum, Marx, glum.What you need is a gramme of soma.”All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.One cubic centimet
6、re cures ten gloomy sentiments.(from Chapter 3)Its clear that peoples emotion is controlled by drugs;almost everything is controlled by drugs.Never regard it as a good thing.On the contrary,its terrifying,it means people lost their feelings and have no independent personality.To some extent,it just
7、like turn human beings into machines.Another trait of the world is man is produced rather than be born.In a specific place named Human Incubation Center,following a specific procedure called Bokanovskys Process,humans are produced by eggs and sperm.As a result ,a mans fate is actually determined bef
8、ore he is “born” by what conditions the operators provide. Confronted such a crazy world,in spite of many advantages it have,everyones choice is likely to be the same with the Savage (Here savages means people comes from places except the brave new world) in the book: “But I dont want comfort. I wan
9、t God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “youre claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right then,”said the Savage defiantly,“Im claiming the nght to be unhappy.” “Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impoten
10、t; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.” There was along silence. “I claim t
11、hem all,”said the Savage at last. However,to my disappointment,the savage finally killed himself in order to purify himself.Before he died,he said”I ate civilization.It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then I ate my own wickedness.” You may consider nothing in the book makes real sense as the whole b
12、ook is just the authors fancy.Nevertheless,yesterdays imagination is likely to become the reality of tomorrow;that is to say Brave New World is a book foreseeing future.With its unique significance of enlightenment,the book is bound to be taken seriously especially today when modern civilization,both economy and technology,is developing in an amazing rate.In the process of development,its never lose our human nature and instinct that should be bared in everyones mind.Only in this way can we human create a real brave new world.
