《Brave New World》读后感摘抄
《Brave New World》是一本由Aldous Huxley著作，Harper Perennial Modern Classics出版的Paperback图书，本书定价：USD 14.99，页数：288，特精心从网络上整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《Brave New World》精选点评：
●To the freedom and sensuality, to human's constant fear of old age, disease, deformity, and pain. To those who kneel and shed tears before their gods, to those lost, disabled, and replaced gods, to those who need religions and those who do not. To those who are awfully hurt that they crave for the brave new world. To our void humanity.
●Huxley is insightful indeed but not as good at writing as Orwell. Mr Savage reminds me of the saying “自绝于党自绝于人民”
●虽然全员蛇精病 但是最喜欢Helmholz Watson了药丸 希望男神在Falkland群岛上过得开心啊wwww【【【好久没读不是谈♂恋♂爱的小说了 换个口味读得好爽
●Have never expected that it’s a Sci-Fi, wow! As far as dystopia is concerned, if George Orwell’s 1984 is a hammer, this probably is a stick, both are great though.
●考虑到成书的年代，不能不佩服作者的远见卓识。这本说起来是小说，其实很哲学，什么是幸福，快乐，自由和个性？读完对乌托邦也不那么向往了。
●【藏书阁打卡】反乌托邦，同样是用个体的悲剧来衬托出整个社会的可怖，相比<1984>里的“老大哥”，<Brave>用物质、药物和科技编织的欲望桃源，我们现在所说的“娱乐至死”，沉浸在感官享受中而追求肤浅的快乐——在小说中有着极端而本源的展现，并最终代替<1984>中的权力，成为毁灭人性的角色。最爱John的那段争辩和控诉:"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
●I agree with Huxley's idea. But, man, Orwell is a much better writer.
●要说美丽新世界不好，我们难道没有被condition么，看后期的savage，感觉他自己也被困住了。
●(马克写书评，靠每天中午吃午饭的时间，看了两个月总算看完了)
●"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that when one has closed his book, one remembers - rather than his cleverness and his wit, which one admires and forgets." — Edward Cushing, Saturday Review of Literature 另，看了Aldous Huxley给Orwell写的信，感觉他LSD玩儿得有点儿过了。
《Brave New World》读后感(一)：两种极端与暗示
终于看完了，从5月29号到今天差不多有20天了，还比想象中还是要长些。
最初的工厂介绍，如果是我的话，我希望能写得更加的有趣一些。这种导游式上还是有一些偷懒。故事中间还是一贯的，英雄人物反抗社会或者是制度，读来略有一点点老套。甚至在领导讲述他们曾经去旅游丢失了女性，之后B也要去同一个地方，非常容易猜到后面会触发相关剧情。
野人的象征意义很有意思。他从最初的是两种文化中不断纠结，向往在另一种文化中栖身，到真正到达后，从父亲开始失望，恋人，友情，母亲全部失去，最后成为一个彻彻底底的野人，进而成为了观赏动物，甚至失去理智。而他作为苦行僧的一面，又是彻底反抗享乐，感觉两种极端都很恐怖啊。17章宗教部分，其实我没太看懂，下次找个中文译本来看一下。
《Brave New World》读后感(二)：Brave New World
【短评超字数了】……
非常发人深省的关于未来世界乌托邦的一种可能性的展示。就故事性来说个人觉得并没有特别吸引人，但是乌托邦世界的构思很让人不舒服：人们被通过基因和洗脑等各种方式培育成属于不同阶级的人各司其职，和《1984》所描述的那种重压下的社会不同，美丽新世界里的未来世界社会安定祥和，没有争斗与痛苦，作为交换人们失去了”自由意志”。但是是否自由就一定会伴随着差异化，冲突，矛盾，灾难...？若从社会整体的角度来说，也许冲突和矛盾才是不断进步的动力源；但是从个体的角度来说，人又追求的是什么呢？最大化快乐，满足或者刺激？似乎从生理的角度来说很容易做到？不论是书中所描述的洗脑，亦或者是《娱乐至死》中描述的那种泛滥的“精神鸦片”，从客观的角度来说，人是变得更“快乐”了，但是这是人们所追求的吗？如若不是，人所求又为何物？感觉很不愿意看到书中的描述变成人类社会的最终形态，但是若要讲一讲取而代之什么才是更加合适的理想状态呢，却又很难说出来。也许人的存在本无法承载太多的意义吧！
一方面来讲现代社会里诸如修改教科书，或者社交媒体大规模精准定制洗脑的事情似乎也屡见不鲜了，但是另一方面只要世界上还有不同的国家之间互相制衡大概就还不会真正完全变成 Huxley 所描述的美丽新世界中的那个样子吧，毕竟那意味着社会乃至于科学发展都会进入仿佛是静止一般的永恒的死循环中。但是不得不说 1932 年写出这样的书来证实太有前瞻性了。
《Brave New World》读后感(三)：我强烈要求不幸福的权利
整本书其实并不复杂，所要说的事情也并没有很玄妙，总结起来就是：未来人类持续发展下去之后，所有感官上的痛苦都将消失，“人”不再是一个随机成长的个体，“人”的所有生理和心理特征都可以在出生之前以工业的方式进行控制，以使得整个社会都可以和谐的运转。以上的这些概念其实并没有什么振聋发聩之处，毕竟21实际之后的世界已经足够光怪陆离，不过考虑到这书出现在1930年代，而且仅就中国而言，部分已经实现了书中的预言，这就足以让人瞬间沉默了。
《美丽新世界》中，Ford让人们放弃智慧，以没有痛苦的方式度过一生，人们其实也并不知道什么是“痛苦”，他们在被bottling的时候并没有被灌输这个概念，他们生来就是愉快的、幸福的，性也是完全自由的，各种各样的娱乐也都能得到满足。然而，这里有一个很重要的代价就是：不自由。或者说，并没有选择的权利，在获得生命之前一切都被注定了。电影还没开场就已经全部被剧透完的感觉还是很不好的，以至于我想了一下我的人生，好像很大一部分动力还是在于未来的不确定性。
赫胥黎在写《美丽新世界》的时候肯定不知道未来会具体出现什么，但他预言了一个大概的轮廓：人类社会会出现巨大的类似安慰剂的东西，这个东西在Ford世界里叫soma，在现在则有很多的化身：快手、抖音，当然也包括知乎等等，所不同的是剂量大小而已，它们带来的即时快感（instant pleasure）让人忍不住的想要去刷，按一下按钮就获得一次快感，而且还不是花样繁多的快感，这的确让人难以抵抗。如同走进了一个巨大的超级市场，巨大而且丰富，而且只花很小的代价就能得到超出预期的感官刺激——简直不敢想。
边读边记笔记，感觉赫胥黎最后都要把小说写成演讲稿了，当然，他自己好像也有点克制不住了，要是再不多说点小说就得收尾了，于是也有了比较重点的地方来了：
ut I don't want comfort.I want God,I want poety,I want real danger,I want freedom,I want goodness,I want sin.
以及最重要的：
I'm claiming the right to be unhappy!
我强烈要求不幸福的权利！
《Brave New World》读后感(四)：英语作业
This book presents a futuristic dystopia of an unusual kind. Huxley’s dystopia is one in which everyone is happy. However, they are happy in only the most trivial sense: the people lives in a caste system based on genetics, conditioned from birth and pacified by drugs, living to consume goods and take soma to forget their troubles. What impresses me a lot is the embryonic childhood and early adult conditioning. The Director explained: “All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” (BNW, page 7: line 10) People do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. One of my most unforgettable conditioning scene (in Chapter Two) had a nurse training infants to dislike books and nature, by terrifying them whenever they approached or even looked at a book or flower. Clearly, technologies such as Bokanovsky’s Process have undo their capacities to think and their love for beauty. The other means of control was mass addiction to the drug soma, readily distributed to all, more powerful than alchol or heroin, and producing complete bliss. The world seems stable, people there are well-off. The controller summarized the world this way: “People are happy; they get what they want; and they never want they can’t get… They’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.” (BNW, page 95: line 27) Like John the Savage, I am an outsider looking in on that world. To me it is just abnormal and to some degree, hellish. Those people live without art, literature or philosophy. As for religion, Henry Ford is to them what Jesus is to Christians. In short, people live without deeper meaning. Although they are expected to work hard and efficiently during working hours, during off hours they live in an infantile way, never engaging their minds, having no passion or nothing to feel strong about, and satisfying themselves with sex and drugs. First published in 1932, this book is timeless and as relevant today as when it was first written. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. He feared we would become “a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and centrifugal bumblepuppy” (Neil Postman, Foreword from Amusing Ourselves to Death). I do fear the serious danger in the future is closer to what Huxley envisioned. Our culture seems to be moving in the direction of Brave New World all the time. Do the rampant consumerism and herd mentality seem a little familiar？ Has it become a truth that we tend to get entertainment from the internet rather than read Shakespeare？ I’m afraid we are indulged in sensual pleasure, losing curiosity, free minds and belief in good taste. To sum up, Brave New World is very readable and not at all dense. The ideas are very easy to absorb, especially in this day and age. In these uncertain times, Brave New World is as timely as ever. I highly recommend reading.