You’ve got to be hurt and upset otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases… No, it won’t do. “Why was that old fellow such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excriciating things to get excited about. He is captivated by John and feels that his feelings of being unique are justified.įinally, the beauty and truth he sees in Shakespeare’s writing are justified through meeting John- someone who shares a common love for such powerful and tragic writing. Meeting John has justified for Helmholtz just how corrupt society truly is. Helmholtz has always felt some sort of urge to explore his writing abilities and truly experience life beyond the World State. For John, the raw and passionate emotions in Shakespeare help him to understand himself and his world, and for Lenina, soma allows her to pacify any overwhelming and unmanageable feelings. These actions are similar because both are methods of escape. She deals with the situation by taking soma, and john releases all of his passion and emotion by reading Shakespeare.

This leaves her bewildered and lacking confidence. After John and Lenina go to a feely movie together, the night comes to end and John drops Lenina off at her house without having sex with her. After Johns vomits from the disgust of viewing hundreds of identical twins in the Factory where the Bockanovsky process is put into practise, he goes on to find that the State’s library does not have Shakespeare.

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