Chapter 18
1.
How does John purify himself? Where does he go
and what does he do to do that? Is that a reasonable alternative or healthy
alternative that the society that the world has?
a.
He goes to an abandoned lighthouse in the
wilderness and whips himself. He performs rituals of self punishment.
2.
What is self flagellation?
a.
Self harm, the act of hitting oneself.
3.
Describe the relationship that John and Lenina
have and how it comes to an end? What is the end result of their relationship?
a.
The beginning of their relationship starts out
with John liking her and she wants to be with him. She tries to seduce him
several times, but he sees this negatively. He believes in a different type of
relationship and she doesn’t understand it. In the end he is alone and becomes
a spectacle to the newspapers because he is whipping himself. Lenina tries to
come towards him and he ends up whipping her.
4.
What happens overall to everyone? How does it
end?
a.
In the end, John becomes a participant of
everything he has ever disagreed with and he ends up killing himself due to
self-loathing.
5.
Could John have done anything differently at the
end?
a.
Yes, he could have continued with his
self-flagellation and not participated in the events of the night before that
contributed to his self-loathing.
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