Monday, February 29, 2016

Brave New World Chapters 15-16- Poison to the soul

(Individuality is/ is not harmful)


"Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful. A reparation, a duty. And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back.
"Now," said the Deputy Sub-Bursar.
Another khaki female stepped forward.
"Stop!" called the Savage in a loud and ringing voice. "Stop!" 
(Huxley 216-217).

In chapters 15 through 16, John becomes aggravated and begins to act out as a way of coping with Linda's death. He is on the street and runs into some people who are getting some soma, and he tells them to please stop. When he tells them this he is regarding that its poison and it will kill them. Being that Linda died, he believes that caused it. Being an individual in this situation I think is positive being that he is advising them to not take soma. He is not harming society in a bad way, but to society he is.  In order to help better the people in this society he tells them the bad effects of Soma and ultimatley it is not harming anybody in society.

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