The ending of the Brave New World has to be my favorite part of the novel(not because I can finally stop reading it.Why would you think that...). I especially enjoyed chapters 16 and 17 because we get to finally hear the World State's side of things.I agree with some of the things that Mond says,especially his statement that humans were conditioned to believe in God. For those who are religious, we've been taught to think that everything happens for a reason. And that reason is God.But for those who haven't been taught that, God is just another thing that people believe in, either as a beacon of hope or a scapegoat.After all who thinks about God when good things are happening to them?We tend to think of God when we are at our worst, either guilty for something we've done or blaming Him when something has gone wrong. The people in the World State have happy, uneventful lives so they don't think about a higher power because,like Mond pointed out, there is no need to.
The last chapter was especially distressing.I genuinely felt bad for John for haven't we all been in a situation in which we didn't know what to feel and how to act?I felt worse in the days leading up to his death than his actual death.Why?John has grown up being an outsider and has moved to the World State to be,once again, another outsider. He will forever be that, no matter where he chooses to live, and that is a hard fact to swallow.Even his closest friend,Helmholtz,laughed when he was talking about Romeo and Juliet. This shows that even though he had similarities with him,Helmholtz will always be a product of the World State and thus, way different from John. Alone and upset, John succumbed and took Soma and participated in the Orgy Porgy which was the last straw.If he did choose to continue living, he would have had the most miserable experience because now not only was he an outsider, he was an outsider who abandoned his morals. Unfortunate as it was, suicide was the best option for him, lest he live a life not worth living.
Brave New World was certainly an interesting book. I enjoyed it a lot and think I think Huxley is a very good author.He made a world that,in the beginning,seems to be so different from ours and little by little shows us that it really isn't.How scary is that?
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