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.