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BRAVE NEW WORLD

BRAVE NEW WORLD . CHAPTER 13. CHAPTER 13 SUMMARY. Henry asks Lenina out to a feely but is rejected. Lenina has a discussion with Fanny to help her with her feeling. Lenina decides to take some Soma. John is waiting for W atson to come back home to discuss his emotions.

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

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  1. BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 13

  2. CHAPTER 13 SUMMARY • Henry asks Lenina out to a feely but is rejected. • Leninahas a discussion with Fanny to help her with her feeling. • Lenina decides to take some Soma. • John is waiting for Watson to come back home to discuss his emotions. • Leninasuprises John by showing up. • John expresses his feelings to Lenina. • Leninais upset and confused about the situation. • John discusses marriage with Lenina but only manages to upset her. • Lenina is in distress and decides to release her emotions in a physical way. • John disagrees with her actions and pushes her away. • Lenina hides in the toilet. • John receives a phone call. • Leninadecides that it is safe after he leaves.

  3. CHARACTERS • LENINA: • she seems to have lost a lot of her conditioning in this chapter. • After having some soma, her characteristics comes back to her. • Lenina struggles to relate to John, her knowledge is not conventional • ''a gra-amme is be-etter...” this shows that Lenina has come back to her conditioning. • Can also be shown ashaving excessive feelings to one person, she even forgets how to do her own job

  4. CHARACTERS • JOHN: • Does not get the new society, and most of his ideas come from Shakespeare. • Unable to escapes to his past, still has his own morals about life. • has a sensitive side to him as well. • Still stuck in his life in the Savage Reservation. • His habits are what people of the present day can link to. • Is the main object of Lenina’s attention. • Shakespeare governs his life and influences his perspectives.

  5. THEMES OF CHAPTER • Happiness • The artificial happiness used in this chapter causes more harm than good, and it creates a tragic outcome. • In this chapter having no happiness is better than having false happiness. • Lenina struggles to relate to John, her knowledge is not conventional. • the V.P.S (violent passion surrogate) leads us to believe that happiness is artificial. • The truth is sometimes better than false happiness.

  6. STYLE • She forgets to do her own job as a result of deconditioning, it can be shown by how Huxley describes its the first accident in years. • Stress and frustration echoed throughout entire chapter. • Many lines are taken from Shakespeareian plays. • Lines show us the various aspects of the old world that have been eliminated.

  7. QUOTES • “But he’s the one I want” , “ the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth” [Lenina] • “ What a horrible idea” [Leninaon the topic of marriage] • “A gra-amme is be-etter…”[Lenina] • “Then suddenly fell to his knees before her” • “In Malpais people get married” [John] • “It’s like that in Shakespeare too” [John]

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