The director resigns and everyone becomes very interested with John, and therefore Bernard because he brought John to London. John is then given a tour of the hatchery and sees the children being born and the children who are aging. He then goes to a school where he sees young kids and john asks them if they read Shakespeare, the children reply no. A busload of students also arrive from the crematorium where they received ice cream and toys which sickens john.
The director and Henry Foster are discussing Bernard, and about how Bernard does his job well but he is too intelligent to fill his role in society. Bernard walks in and the director asks him if there is a good reason for him to not be shipped to Iceland. Bernard shows Linda to the director and she tells him that John is his child and the director denies ever having a baby and runs away.
chapter 14 takes place in the hospital where John's mother Linda is staying. she overdosed on soma by taking 20 grams of it. While John is visiting her she refers to him as pope, john gets angry and starts to shake Linda violently, the awakens her and she dies in front of john
At the beginning of the chapter, lenina takes 3 grams of soma and goes to sleep for 18 hours. so bernard leaves and flies somewhere else. John,thinking Bernard left him, breaks in and searches through leninas luggage, he is fascinated with her perfume and the zippers. then he sees lenina sleeping on the bed. He kneels beside her and starts talking about his lover for her and quoting Romeo and Juliet.
In chapter 8 we get more insight on the young boy named John. the chapter starts by a man named Pope bringing tequila and Slytherined the Hufflepuff with john's mother Linda, after that Linda is whipped by other women and when john tries to stop them he gets whipped as well. Later on Linda is still seen as a whore and the other women don't like her.
Chapter 5 is all about Bernard, we see him go to a meeting and sit down at a table with many other people. They start taking soma and listen to pounding music and chanting lines of music. soon enough the people chant "orgy-porgy" and they all partake in a sex orgy and each one of them start making whoopie and the chapter ends with Bernard thinking about some ladies unibrow.
In the final chapter of the novel me see a side of john we havent really seen before, he still has the extreme desire to the horizontal monster mash with Lenina, and because he thinks that his desire is wrong, he begins to whip himself and lenina. Soon enough a crowd forms and a mass sex orgy breaks out, kinky right? and after John wakes up he remembers what he did and hangs himself from the rafters of the lighthouse, and the reader is left with the vision of his hanging body twirling around.
In chapter 4 Bernard is in a meeting but he doesn't quite agree with what everyone is talking about. He leaves in a helicopter. After the fact lenina and him go on many other dates together.
You know what really grinds my gears? This society, in A Brave New World they take away a persons identity by forcing people to take drugs and have sex with everyone you see. At first it sounds pretty good but is it worth giving up who you are?
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