Chapter 11 notes brave new world
By the end of chapter 11 Lenina ends up liking John but she can’t tell if he likes her back or not so she’s holding back on telling her until she is sure about it.
Bernard doesn’t what to take pills to fall into a soma and visit his mother often.
John ends up talking about his “thriving sex life” to a person named Helmholtz but Helmholtz doesn’t reply with words but with a gloomy silence that offends Bernard in a way.
That’s when Bernard decides to stop speaking to Helmholtz.
He writes Mod to tell him that John has found a “civilized infantility” and that it was too easy.
Bernard tells Mod in the letter that he agrees with John’s verdict. Mod reading this letter thinks he might have to teach Bernard a lesson.
After that he visits Eton where “Alpha children laughed at a film of “Savages” beating themselves with whips on a Reservation.
When John and Lenina spend three weeks in a helicopter and they tell the story of a black man who kidnaps a bald beta plus woman for his own enjoyment.
His shame at his physical desire overwhelms him when Lenina bewilderment John refuses to have sex with her and he looks at himself in his room and reads Shakespeare Othello.
After all that Lenina returns to her room and takes pills to go back into her soma.
Bernard doesn’t what to take pills to fall into a soma and visit his mother often.
John ends up talking about his “thriving sex life” to a person named Helmholtz but Helmholtz doesn’t reply with words but with a gloomy silence that offends Bernard in a way.
That’s when Bernard decides to stop speaking to Helmholtz.
He writes Mod to tell him that John has found a “civilized infantility” and that it was too easy.
Bernard tells Mod in the letter that he agrees with John’s verdict. Mod reading this letter thinks he might have to teach Bernard a lesson.
After that he visits Eton where “Alpha children laughed at a film of “Savages” beating themselves with whips on a Reservation.
When John and Lenina spend three weeks in a helicopter and they tell the story of a black man who kidnaps a bald beta plus woman for his own enjoyment.
His shame at his physical desire overwhelms him when Lenina bewilderment John refuses to have sex with her and he looks at himself in his room and reads Shakespeare Othello.
After all that Lenina returns to her room and takes pills to go back into her soma.
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