Brave New World: Chapter 8

Describe John’s upbringing? Listening to Linda’s stories but felt isolated and rejected What’s his relationship like with his mother? He was not really that close to his mom but she was all he had, and she was a drunk. What kind of education did he get? Linda taught him how to read, she drew with charcoal on the wall, he began reading by reading the book about embryonic conditioning. How does he fit in and not fit in? He didn’t fit in very well because he was made fun of about his mom, and threw sharp stones at him, laughed at him for being ragged, In what ways does that make him similar to Bernard? Bernard was also an outcast Why doesn’t Linda wan t to become a mother? Because she felt like without a baby she could have escaped. What are his goals in life? Is to go live in this New World of London, he wants stability, community, and identity What does he learn in Shakespeare? It’s a voice for his repressed feelings, it talked to him and helps him to understand his mother, the passages inspired him. Pope was in bed with his drunk mother and he went into a rage, and the passage from Shakespeare spoke to him. Time, death, and god, why is that important? He discovered suffering and things that citizens of Utopia know nothing about. He discovered these things alone through Indian initiation rituals. Why does Bernard want to take him and his mother back to London with him? He cant stand Linda, he is using her. He wants to show the citizens that John is the directors son and disgrace him, he is blackmailing the director so he doesn’t have to go to Iceland,