L
by J
About This Novel
This book is a science fiction novel about the future. The story takes place in a cosmopolitan country, known as a "civilized society", and outside of it there are "barbarian reservations", inhabited by some ethnic tribes. Bernard and Lenina met John and his mother Linda when they visited the reserve. Linda was a former resident of the New World. She accidentally fell off a cliff while visiting and gave birth to John. For his own purposes, Bernard brought Linda and her son back to the New World. Linda soon died of an overdose of drugs. John's admiration for the New World turned to disgust, and he hanged himself after a fierce conflict with the New World. This is an allegorical work that shows the future picture of human society in Huxley's eyes: through effective scientific and psychological engineering, human beings have been genetically and genetically designed to be a variety of social members, completely reduced to docile machines, and their individuality has been strangled. The author's purpose in writing this book is to alert mankind.
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