1. 조지 오웰(George Orwell:1903~1950)에 관하여
조지 오웰의 본명은 블레어(Eric Arthur Blair)이며, 인도 출생. 하급 관리의 아들로 태어나, 얼마 안 되어 영국으로 돌아왔다. 1911년 수업료 감액의 조건으로 사립 기숙학교에 입학, 그 곳에서 상류계급과의 심한 차별감을 맛보았다. 장학금으로 이튼학교를 졸업
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue
—liking what you’ve got to do.” (16)
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. […]” (22)
“There was something called liberalism. […]
Liberty to be inefficient and miserable." (46)
“There wa
The Brave New World shows the impact of the development of the science on the individual’s life.
There is no pain, no sadness, no suffering in the Brave New World. It is no feeling world and it does not need to feel loneliness and think anything.
The world is all world brainwashed by external environment. The person who works hard at the bottom of the Pyramid satisfies their life to be bra
올더스 헉슬리(Aldous Huxley)는 1894년 7월 26일 남부 영국 서어리 주 고달밍에 있는 차터하우스(Chaterhouse)교 구내에서 레너드 헉슬리(Leonard Huxley,1830∼1930)의 3남으로 태어났다. 어머니는 줄리어 프란시스 아놀드(Julia Frances Arnold)이다. 그의 가문에는 유명한 학자, 문인이 많다. 조부인 토머스 헨리 헉슬리(Thoma
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat movement) and an environmental activist who is frequently described as the laureate of Deep Ecology; both reflecting his studies of Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder is also a social critic whose views have shared something in common with Lewis Mumford, Aldous Huxley, Karl Hess, and Aldo Leopold.
Snyder was