Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
Brave New World 《美麗新世界》該作主要刻畫了一個(gè)600年的未來世界,一切都高度發(fā)達(dá),人類欲望得到充分滿足,機(jī)械文明稱道,情感、信任微乎其微,人類最大的使命就是保護(hù)自我。在本書中既可以看到一些未來才存在的科幻場景,對于喜歡科學(xué)研究的孩子來說是很好的營養(yǎng)劑。