Taking forward the Men theme of this month, FACES reviews reads like Brave New World, The Sun Also Rises and Watchmen. Read on to know more…
The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, described as one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces, is a poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation. The novel follows the flamboyant Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealised love, and vanishing illusions.
Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Brave New World takes the reader to an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetised to uphold, rather passively, an authoritarian ruling order. The book talks of a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. It is an apocalypse kind of situation with freedom, humanity, and even souls lost.
Watchmen
Author: Alan Moore
Watchmen is a science fiction comic book by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colourist John Higgins. It chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes who are now plagued by common human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.