Brave New World Chapter 18- "Dangled a pair of feet"

That evening the swarm of helicopters that came buzzing across the Hog's Back was a dark cloud ten kilometres long. The description of last night's orgy of atonement had been in all the papers.

"Savage!" called the first arrivals, as they alighted from their machine. "Mr. Savage!"

There was no answer.

The door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors. Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet.

"Mr. Savage!" (Huxley 266-267).

In the last Chapter of Brave New World, John begins to lose his sense of individuality. Since isolating himself from civilization he begins to find it hard to "conform" and he resorts to self punishment of whipping himself. He does this in despite of taking soma like the people of the brave new world would, to conceal the bad feelings. When the reporters and Lenina came to bother him, it was the last straw their pressuring made John feel like he lost all sense of himself ever since coming to this brave new world. John did not understand this civilization and lifestyle of conforming, accepting, and obeying to society's set rules; of the brave new world and so he ended his life though suicide.

Brave New World Chapter 17- Happiness...

"But I like the inconveniences."

"We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."

"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."

"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."

"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy" (Huxley 246).

 

In Chapter 17, John and Helmholtz continue their argument regarding religion. John says that the people in society would not be in a denial of their own personal opinions and thoughts. The people will not find true happiness in this type of society that does not encourage individualism. Mond simply believes that soma will cure anything and everything that seems to hinder the "New World state", however he is only hindering the individual lifestyle,that John happens to see and believes in.