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For the theme song for Brave New World, I chose the song "Thumbs" by Sabrina Carpenter. I think this song really suits the book. She sings about how society is just making copies of people, and were all just working for someone else. She is telling us that you shouldn't become someone who just goes along with everybody else and how everyone in the world is the same in some way. The book is really about a screwed up society where everyone is the same, and they don't get to make their own choices. The saying "Twiddle you thumbs" means "to not do something for a period of time, while your waiting for something to happen". I think that most people in the book, for example, Lenina, don't really make an effort to live their fullest, realest life. People living in the World State are not free. They are not making their own choices, and avoid human feelings and situations.

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Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs (Official Video)

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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

John is really sticking it to the man here! He shows us his free and brave side. John is being told that everything he loves is what makes him unhappy, even though it actually does make him happy, because he is being human. He is choosing to have choices, he doesn't want to live in solitary and not be able to be himself. He wants to have feelings and make his own path.

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"…what would it be like if I could, if I were free—not enslaved by my conditioning."
"But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things."
"Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?"
"I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays."
He laughed, "Yes, 'Everybody's happy nowadays.' We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way."
"I don't know what you mean," she repeated.

Bernard and Lenina have very different views on the word "free". They cant understand each other. For Bernard freedom means having the choice to be unhappy. For Lenina freedom is just another adjective she has been taught, she is free and happy because she is told to be. Bernard is very different from the others, he thinks differently, and the World State has corrupted all of their minds. Bernard try's to think for himself, he wants to experience life. He yearns for freedom.

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"The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?"

Bernard questions authority here, this shows how curious he is. He wants to know why, and what really makes an individual. He wants to know the true meaning of life. Everyone survives, but not everyone lives.

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"Do they read Shakespeare?" asked the Savage as they walked, on their way to the Bio-chemical Laboratories, past the School Library.
"Certainly not," said the Head Mistress, blushing.
"Our library," said Dr. Gaffney, "contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don't encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements."

John is asking if they read Shakespeare, which is what his mother taught him to read. Shakespeare is outlawed in the World State, they can't interact with it. John and Shakespeare are very similar because they are both everything the World State hates, being human with human emotions. I think John really likes Shakespeare because it is raw, and gives him that bit of humanity he needs. John has feelings and this again displays how he is different.

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This says a lot about Bernard's identity. He feels that it is wrong to like Lenina just for her body, or treat her like that's the only thing important. He is disgusted by this, and I think that it shows he is compassionate and caring.

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"Once," he went on, "I did something that none of the others did: I stood against a rock in the middle of the day, in summer, with my arms out, like Jesus on the Cross."
"What on earth for?"
"I wanted to know what it was like being crucified. Hanging there in the sun…"
"But why?"
"Why? Well…" He hesitated. "Because I felt I ought to. If Jesus could stand it. And then, if one has done something wrong… Besides, I was unhappy; that was another reason."
"It seems a funny way of curing your unhappiness," said Bernard. But on second thoughts he decided that there was, after all, some sense in it. Better than taking soma…"

Here John has thought more deeply on what it means to suffer. John's story about hanging himself in the sun to resemble Jesus, is foreshadowing how later he hangs himself and dies. His thoughts about killing himself and suffering, says a lot about him, he thinks about sad things, things real humans feel.

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John tortures himself for having feelings and is so frustrated. He is viewed as a circus show to the other people. John lashes out violently and even participates in a orgy. He is so disappointed with himself the next day and felt like he deserved the ultimate punishment. Out of frustration and hopelessness, he commits suicide. This all really revealed the full extent of the power and evil of their society.

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The climax of Brave New World is when Mustafa Mond's experiment with John comes to an end. In the mind of Mond, and his citizens, it even more confirms the World State way of life. John's problems and then suicide, serves as an example to Mond and their society that individual thinking will lead to  instability and self-destruction and that reaffirms the World State's policy of suppressing individual thinking.

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John hates that people would rather be happy and high, instead of free and living life. He throws soma out their window! He disagrees with the unnatural and technology ran society, and how they are all slaves. John also becomes very violent throwing punches and starting fights.

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John is trying really hard to suppress his urge to approach Lenina. He wants to touch her, and love her, but he knows that it would be wrong if she doesn't love him back. He wants a real relationship not just sexual intercourse.

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Bernard and Helmholtz feel like they are different from everyone else in their society. They think differently and feel like there's something missing to them, and that makes them stand out from all the others. They don't fully understand what's right and what's wrong. Both of them even look much differently from the others, with their bodies.