Brave New World chapter 18 by Tuyen Quach https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny Analysis of chapter 18 en-us 2017-08-01 22:44:02 UTC 2017-08-03 03:43:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Beginning of chapter 18 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899035
  • John is throwing up in the bathroom when Bernard and Helmholtz comes to say goodbye as they leave for the island.
  • John leaves to a lighthouse that is far away from London as he wants to suffer from misery instead of living in civilisation. He is still not happy about the new location as the view reminds him of civilisation.
  • He spends the first night praying to every god he knows of to purify himself from the civilised world.
  • John uses some of the leftover money to buy materials and foods but decides not to eat the food as he doesn’t deserve to.
  • He finds himself singing as he makes a bow and arrow and starts to whip himself as he needs to be miserable not happy. 

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  • Some delta-minuses find him whipping himself and so they report about it. 
  • The next day, a reporter comes to ask John to talk about that event. 
  • John gets a angry and kicks the reporter. More reporters come to the lighthouse.
  • John becomes wild so everyone keeps a safe distance away by staying in helicopters. 
  • It becomes quiet for a few days, John keeps thinking about Lenina so he jumps into thorn bushes to stop himself. 
  • A reporter called Darwin and he had stayed there for three days. He filmed John whipping himself and produced into a movie. 

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  • The movie became an immediate sensation and John becomes the celebrity
  • Fans start swarming to the lighthouse demanding that they “want the whip”
  • Soon, Lenina arrives and opens her arms for John but he just gets even angrier and starts whipping her. She decides to run away with Henry Foster
  •  The crowd chants the orgy porgy hymn  and everyone uses soma.
  • After midnight, the helicopters leave and John collapses after all that has happened.
  • John wakes up and remembers everything. Horrified and disgusted by the events, he decides to commit suicide and hangs himself. 

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899242     Setting qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899348
  • The last chapter is centered at the abandoned lighthouse which is “somewhere between Puttenham and Elstead” 
  • The lighthouse is situated in a place that is far away from civilisation. However, John still complains that the lighthouse isn’t abandoned enough as the view of the sea makes him feel happy and reminds him of the World State. 
  • Chapter 18’s mood is extremely dark and depressing. The atmosphere is not great.
  • John acts like a wild beast and violently deals with everything.
  • The mood is grim as the audience can sense the dark twist at the end of the novel as John hangs himself.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899348     John qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899411
  • The last chapter was mostly about John and his self punishment. 
  • The audience learns that John believes in truth over happiness. 
  • He is emotional and intense. He practises self punishment such as flagellation and kneeling in order to s'élance himself and become pure of the sins committed by society
  • He becomes a celebrity because of his strange actions that are fascinating to the rest of society. 
  • The reporters crowd around him which makes him become more and more violent. 
  • He becomes more animal-like as the book ends. He believes that he doesn’t deserve any happiness as it is against his values. 
  • He punishes himself every time he feels happy. His main form of punishment is throwing up and whipping until he collapses. 
  • The audience learns that John's optimistic belief of World State is extremely different to what it actually is. 

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  • She represents John’s lust for happiness. 
  • When he sees her again amongst the chanting crowd, he goes into insanity as he believes he had succumbed to the happiness in which he tried to stop himself from having. 
  • We also learn that she becomes too afraid of John and decides to run back to Henry in the end.
    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899438     Symbolism qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899738
  • Symbolism: the abandoned lighthouse is like John’s emotions in which he feels foreign to the civilised world. 
  • The crowd chanting and approaching him slowly is like John succumbing to the happiness.

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  • Repetition: his repeated whipping represents his self-punishment and how he believes that he does not deserve to be happy. 
  • He also continuously remember about Lenina and repeatedly says her name to try and forget about her.
  • John repeatedly reminds himself that he doesn't deserve anything.

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  • Metaphor: As he becomes more violent towards the crowd, they start to call him “the ape” and treats him like a wild animal in a circus. 
  • His actions, especially the whipping entertains the crowd.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179899878     Dialogue qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900001 Dialogue: the words of pressure from the reporters for John drives him to insanity and makes him feel angry at the World State even more. ]]> 2017-08-02 00:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900001 Sense of belonging qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900065
  • Sense of belonging: he feels alone in the World State so he decides to leave to an abandoned lighthouse to get away from the civilised world that he is angry at. 

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900065     Happiness and truth qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900100
  • Happiness and truth: His values are truth over happiness. 
  • He find himself enjoying life too much so he punishes himself over the smallest things that make him happy. 

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900100     Isolation qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900137
  • Isolation: He isolates himself from the rest of society as he feels he does not truly belong there. 
  • He feels that the civilised world is not anything like he had imagined. 

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900137     Identity qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900170
  • Identity: He loses his real identity as he comes to the World State. 
  • He becomes known as “Mr. Savage”, the foreigner who has strange behaviours.
  •  He acts more violently until he becomes almost like an animal.

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  • Religion: He prays to every God he believes in to ask them to purify him.
  • He believes in God and not Ford 
  • He does a form of crucification so punish himself at the start of chapter 18.  
    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900196     “Who was he to be living in the visible presence of God? pg. 216 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900313
  • John believed he did not deserve to see through glass and look at the view. 
  • He thought that since there was glass, God was looking down at him.
  • It made him depressed that he was still living under the presence of God.
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  • He despised everything about the World State.
  • Food reminded him of the civilised world and so he decided that starving himself was better than eating.
    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900320     “But it was still the presence of Lenina that haunted him.” pg 222 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900329
  • His temptation to go back to Lenina  reminds him of the happy times.
  • He also thinks he doesn't deserve that type of happiness and so forces himself to forget him 
  • He jumps into a thorn bush to punish himself.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900329     “The ape had spoken” pg 225 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900337
  • The crowd deems him as an ape as he behaves like a wild animal instead of civilised man
  • He responds violently to the crowd's chants and approach

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900337     “We - want - the whip!” pg 227 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900358
  • The civilised people from World State are fascinated about the actions of John.
  • They like watching him whip himself, so they demand him to do the whipping.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900358     “ Stupefied by soma, and exhausted by a long-drawn frenzy of sensuality.” pg 228 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900371
  • He eventually succumbs to the crowd and follows them.
  • He wakes up remembering everything in horror
  • His beliefs were never to participate in the disgraceful actions of the World State citizens
  • Yet, he ended up joining them in their "Orgy-porgy" and use of soma.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900371     “Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles.” pg 229 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179900380
  • He commits suicide after remembering what he did the night before.
  • The use of a compass as a way to end the book, symbolises John's decision to move on and find his true road to live.

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  • The comparison of his hanging body/legs with a compass 
  • He decides that the only way to move on was to die.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179901352     The crowd qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179901556
  • The crowd from World State puts pressure on him to show them something fascinating.
  • The crowd becomes the main reason to his suicide as he couldn't handle the civilised way of living in that society.
  • John believes that everything the society does is disgusting and inhumane.

    • ]]>     2017-08-02 00:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/179901556     Transition from chapter 17 qua0019 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/180009616
  • He feels frustrated after the conversation with Mustapha Mond. 
  • He doesn't agree with the values of the World State.
  • He feels that he is "poisoned by civilisation"
    • ]]>     2017-08-03 03:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/180009616     Setting ngu0360 https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/180011531 Lighthouse:
    Some of the visual factors described
    Hermitage, crest of the hill, ferriconcrete, excellent condition, glass windows, vantage point and view, 15 mins from the Charing t tower, view of nature woods, open stretches of heather and yellow gorse, scotch firs, ponds, birch trees.]]>     2017-08-03 03:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/qua0019/fgw2q9i174ny/wish/180011531