"Brave New World" is an excellent work published by Aldous Huxley in 1932, and it is also the author's masterpiece that won him worldwide reputation. Aldous Huxley is the grandson of the famous British biologist and author of "The Evolution of Heaven". This novel depicts the future society from a biological perspective as a "unique, unified, and stable" incubation room. All members of society are uniformly hatched from test tubes, and they are all united and united. The protagonist in the book is an alien created by an incubation accident, the unlucky guy who runs into obstacles everywhere.
Specifically, "Brave New World" predicts the world 600 years from now. The book describes that the American automobile tycoon Henry Ford replaced God because Ford invented the assembly line for automobile production, which enabled the rapid development of production. This production method finally dominated the entire world, and AD became "Fu Yuan". In the new world, people in a state of "happiness" are content with their "levels", love their jobs, and use the rationed "soma" every day - a kind of medicine that makes people forget their emotions and six desires and "has the benefits of opium". Drugs that are “free from the harmful effects of opium”. The author describes a "savage" in the reservation area. He came to the long-awaited "new world". At first, he shed tears for the changes in the physical environment, but then he arrived with joy - the brave new world, and then finally because he still had blood. , unable to adapt to the termite-like life in a society of flowing production, and he believed that his sweetheart was debauched and intolerable (a famous saying in the New World: Everyone belongs to everyone. Therefore, there is no such thing as "debauchery"), so that His last spiritual sustenance was shattered, and he finally committed suicide in loneliness and despair. In this "new world", social stability is everything, and ideas, art, religion, family, emotions and all kinds of differences that affect stability have disappeared. The image of the "savage" is the embodiment of today's human beings. His situation and tragic ending are chilling.
As a novel, "Brave New World" does not have a strong plot. "The characters on the stage are all thoughts." It can be seen that the writing method of this book is different from ordinary ones. The work is not based on images, but on bringing ideas to human beings. Come with room for thought to win. At the same time, "the difference between this book and other prophetic works is that it is not produced from intuition, but from calm intelligence." Through this novel, we can roughly understand the profound thoughts and writing style of this twentieth-century writer who spanned the natural sciences and social sciences.
"Brave New World" was once named one of the top ten novels of the 20th century. Its characteristic is that when narrating future scenarios, it uses keen thinking and thorough writing to describe the painful, lonely and helpless state of intellectuals who are mentally oppressed when mechanical civilization is highly developed. Because the author has extensive knowledge of biology and psychology, these descriptions are shocking and readers can benefit a lot from the author's profound thoughts.