Lit Circle letter #3

The last section of the book, Brave New World had to be the most emotional and intense part of the book. In the section, Aldous Huxley seems to try to emphasize the ways that the Brave New World people are lost in the ways that John is telling them. He believes that they should feel and express their feelings and states that Soma is poison. I think John would be very correct if he was talking to his own normal people but these people in the Brave New World are confused and think he is insane. They are not suppose to feel anything and when they start to feel emotion they take Soma to regain their control. In the book, John was talking to Mond about the ways of Soma. Mond knows that these people are awkward to normal people. He knows a lot of things about the real life but cannot tell others. Mond describes Soma as christianity. "Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is."

John is not suppose to read Shakespeare to others because it makes them emotionally exposed about love, frustration,or sadness but he continues to read verses of Romeo and Juliet to Lennina who constantly tries to seduce John. John’s struggle with his physical desires, first introduced on the Reservation, continues when Lenina tries to seduce him. He insists on seeing Lenina as a pure, virginal woman, possessed of complete sexual modesty. To John, Lenina is only an abstract rendering of all the virtuous women he has read about in Shakespeare’s works. He struggles with the physical side of sexuality to the point that he wants to repress it entirely.