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lajuana_'s review
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
veraspacewalker's review
I'm so mad!!!!! Why didn't I figure out this was an abridged version ???!???
bookedbyhannah's review
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
juliethpinedac's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
danycatreader's review
5.0
It's a shame I read the adaptation. It talks about being different, the crash of this new world with the old one. The world created by the author is perfect in every single way, but it seems as if humanity has been erased. No feelings more than happiness and satisfaction. Here we can see the worlds colliding with the characters: Lenina is the average person in the society; Bernard is part of the society but knows that something exist and was erased (feelings); and John is the old world, our world.
The complex feelings we can get to feel are taken as absurd in this world. The most sacred thing for us, our mother, is seen as something disgusting, while the father is seen as a joke. Yes, people are happy, but it is only a painting, a mask on their faces. Part of being human is experiencing all. In order to know what happiness is, we need to know what suffering is. To know what warmth is, we need to know first what is cold. And John understands that. But he is so disappointed by the painting his mother make, that he feels he is unworthy for the person he loved: Lenina. At the same time, he is angry with her because she doesn't understand what love really is. She wants sex, because it is all she's been taught. But John, that has read Shakespeare's deep love story, Romeo and Juliet, knows exactly what love is, even though he doesn't really understand it. And the book ends with a cruel rule, like in the theory of evolution: if you don't adapt, you die.
The complex feelings we can get to feel are taken as absurd in this world. The most sacred thing for us, our mother, is seen as something disgusting, while the father is seen as a joke. Yes, people are happy, but it is only a painting, a mask on their faces. Part of being human is experiencing all. In order to know what happiness is, we need to know what suffering is. To know what warmth is, we need to know first what is cold. And John understands that. But he is so disappointed by the painting his mother make, that he feels he is unworthy for the person he loved: Lenina. At the same time, he is angry with her because she doesn't understand what love really is. She wants sex, because it is all she's been taught. But John, that has read Shakespeare's deep love story, Romeo and Juliet, knows exactly what love is, even though he doesn't really understand it. And the book ends with a cruel rule, like in the theory of evolution: if you don't adapt, you die.
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