Brave New World

"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." Huxley p.246. I chose this excerpt because I think it says a lot about the theme. It's important because it is from a different perspective than all but a few characters in this book. John has not been conditioned to think certain things about the civilized society so his opinion seems like it would be more accurate than others that are programmed to think good things about society would. He is expressing how true life requires good and bad things. He's saying that without danger, or art, or freedom it's no longer really living.

After Linda dies, John sees a group of Deltas getting their soma and he tries to tell them to throw it away. A riot starts and Bernard and Helmholtz come to help John. The police come and calm the riot with soma vapor and John, Helmholtz, and Bernard are brought to the world controller’s office. The world controller tells them that Bernard and Helmholtz will be exiled. After Bernard and Helmholtz leave John retreats to a lighthouse and tries to purify himself by whipping himself. Soon reporters start coming and then people start coming after the feely. They demand that John whips himself and then Lenina arrives. The scene becomes intense and turns into an orgy that John takes part in. In the morning he wakes up and is so ashamed he took part in something he despised and hangs himself.

I would definitely recommend this book. I enjoyed the author’s style of writing and I thought he did a good job of keeping the reader interested in the book. It was entertaining because I've never read a book like it. The writing style was very original, and kept me wanting to know