Brave new world book chapt 3 series#

Brave new world book chapt 3 series#

But he gets discovered, and by a strange series of events, ends up in a huge orgy of soma and sex around his lighthouse.Īwakening in the morning, and realizing what he has done, he does what Hamlet wanted to do but was never driven to: he hangs himself, driven all the way to ultimate madness. So the people in charge capture him, and he goes out into the wilderness, where he finds an abandoned house and begins making a bow and arrows for his sustenance. This drives John further into madness, and he goes even more insane when he goes to the hospital and finds out he’s not allowed to cry because then the children will think death is bad.Really, pretty understandable, then, that he goes on a rampage, trying to liberate the city from the drug that makes them this way. Then there’s his mother who, now not at all compatible with society in her looks (everyone looks pretty damn good in this society), goes on a two-week long binge of soma, the hangover-free drug that makes you hallucinate great things. Say to Lenina to profess his love, Lenina is moving forward with all possible speed to get him in bed.That episode ends with Lenina yelling at John and storming out, maybe a little like the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia ends. He is especially shocked when, while he’s trying to think of something deep, shakesperean, and romantic to More in part: John tries to escape his problems in the “brave new world ” but does it work Sunday, MaHamlet and Brave New World Okay, so now, the savage John is on his way to the “Brave New World” on a flying car or something, traveling with his new friend Bernard and Bernard’s (temporary) girlfriend Lenina, who by now really wants to get something going between her and John (John also loves Lenina, but the difference is that while John is in love, Lenina just wants to be boned).Also coming along is John’s mother, who is really in no shape to be going back to her old world but still comes along.īut once they get back, John cannot stand the new society and its morals which, to John, are horribly backwards: all entertainment is dull, and everybody has sex all the time without even asking.

On one occasion he even tried to kill one of the men that his mother slept with all the time, as the man was so hateful to him.In this same way, Hamlet tries to kill King Claudius many times. Therefore, he suffers due to what his mother does, just like Hamlet. Of course, in his mother’s culture it was perfectly all right to do this, but for John it is a constant source of shame and ridicule of his peers. Thirdly, and here is the interesting part where Hamlet comes in, he had to watch his mother sleep with strange men all the time. What’s more, John was mostly excluded from the community, since he was mostly white and all the other boys his age were native american (this reservation is in New Mexico, one of the most depressing places on Earth).So his childhood was even worse while he was growing up. So life was already horrible for John from the get go, what with having a constantly depressed mother yelling and crying all the time. So she had to stay on the reservation, depressed, and take care of John. You see, in the time period that this book takes place, it’s the future, and everyone is born out of a test tube, and you’re supposed to have sex whenever you want.But John was born on this reservation, due to an accident in which his mother, who lived in London, did not take her birth control properly, had sex with someone on the reservation, got pregnant, and couldn’t get an abortion. John was a boy raised on a savage reservation.

So first of all, they are both about a descent into madness. Obviously, if you haven’t read Brave New World, and care enough about what happens in it, then don’t read the rest of this. Wednesday, MaHamlet and Brave New World I was thinking about how there were many similarities between Hamlet and Brave New World, and I realized there were a lot.