Fagre nye verden

Dystopia, Novel by Aldous Huxley, Fred Fordham

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Fagre nye verden er en roman af Aldous Huxley. Handlingen foregår i London i år 2540 og tager forskud på udviklingen af reproduktionsteknologier, biologisk ingeniørvirksomhed og sovende indlæring, der manipulerer menneskenes væsen. Visse områder i den nye verden er også dystopisk: Alle er raske og unge, og teknologien er meget avanceret.
Mennesker findes i 5 forskellige ranggrupper, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta og Epsilon, og deres rang er denne rækkefølge.
· Alpha – De klogeste
· Beta – De mellemkloge
· Gamma – ”Lige til pas”
· Delta – ikke så kloge
· Epsilon – Zombier
Alle mennesker er lavet på “samlebånd” – mennesker bliver ikke længere født af en kvinde, de bliver produceret som et “produkt” i de fem forskellige grupper.
Al deres indlæring sker mens de sover, regler osv. bliver læst op, så nå de er vågne, har de accepteret reglerne uden egentlig at vide det.
Hovedpersonen i bogen er Bernard som er et Alpha-menneske, men selvom han har den høje rangering, bliver han ikke respekteret, da rygtet siger, at der blev hældt alkohol i hans fosterglas, fordi de troede han var en Gamma.

First Published

1932

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Sofiia

first of all, i am very happy that i purchased an edition with a beautiful introduction of yuval noah harari. „the climatic dialogue between mustapha mond and john the savage is among the most profound discussions of technology, happiness and the meaning of life in modern western philosophy.“ i followed his advice and as i reached this dialogue, in other words the culmination, i could clearly see how society destroyed a moral in order to reach an eternal comfort. we are striving for a society which would have no trouble in living, no choice and no problems, but if no bad side exists will we continue to stay human? because we are the creatures, for whom it’s natural to make mistakes, to fight for something. and as we see in this book, pressing a natural „bad“ side of human turns them into a vegetable (nice phrase which use to describe people during totalitarian regime in ukraine) and completely erases a personality. „you got rid of them. yes, that’s just like you. getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… but you don’t do either. neither suffer nor oppose. you just abolish the slings and arrows. it’s too easy.“ and further consequences, which we can see is a disappearance of all forms of art because what? right, because the point of art is highlighting problems in society and a person in an aesthetically pleasing way. and as an example there was a shakespeare and a bible, which was considered to be „a pornographic literature“. but of course we need no problems. but still we will continue „to advance“ to a flawless society, a brave new world. at this point, we will have to try also to save a morality, cherish culture and literature and don’t reject our natural human side.

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