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A review by tsundoku281
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
5.0
Wow. I really enjoyed this! This book certainly wasn't perfect and the narrative style was prone to repetition but Butler has raised so many fascinating concepts and ideas & he has masterfully crafted Erewhon, on a par with 1984 I would say...
I'm currently considering ideas of criminality , gender and physiognomy , education, the unborn (potentially link to the Aeneid), the idea that illness is condemned but not immorality!! This is all for my essay where I'll be linking Erewhon to News From Nowhere , I much prefer it to Morris' utopia because this one is so much more thought-provoking and vivid. The reader is fully submerged in the perplexing world of Erewhon and then abruptly removed , as Higgs shifts to an objective examination of their beliefs! I'll be pondering this for a while...
I'm currently considering ideas of criminality , gender and physiognomy , education, the unborn (potentially link to the Aeneid), the idea that illness is condemned but not immorality!! This is all for my essay where I'll be linking Erewhon to News From Nowhere , I much prefer it to Morris' utopia because this one is so much more thought-provoking and vivid. The reader is fully submerged in the perplexing world of Erewhon and then abruptly removed , as Higgs shifts to an objective examination of their beliefs! I'll be pondering this for a while...