Vocabulary Part 2 (Bernard's Exile)

Using six vocabulary words, write a story about Bernard once he arrives at his island of exile.

         

          Helmholtz and Bernard had been split up once they got to the Centre for Exilation and Transport. Mustapha had made it seem that Helmholtz and Bernard were going to travel together to the Falkland Islands, but upon arriving, the Gamma-Minus travel coordinator had motioned Bernard to walk to the lift at the end of the hall. Heading up to the 32nd floor, just below the roof, Bernard stepped out onto a rocket lander full of people that looked quite like him. 

          When all the people got aboard the rocket lander, the rear of the vehicle fulminated and Bernard nearly fell over due to the inital force of the takeoff. Bernard's heart was palpitating due to the sudden shock of the liftoff and the confusion as to where in the world he was going. It was all answered when a very energetic, effusive travel director stepped in front of the crowd to explain where they were going. (He was particularly joyful, Bernard could tell he was under the influence of at least 3 grammes.) It appeared that Bernard and the rest of his look-alikes were going to an island just off the west coast of Africa called Ilha de Såo Nicolau. 

          When the flight ended, Bernard had an optimistic attitude about the place by the way the man that was hopped up on soma had detailed it. That is until he stepped off the lander and the first thing to catch his eye was a huge, two-hundred and fifty-foot billboard towering over the island, littered with classic hypnopaedic phrases on it. Even worse, when Bernard took a glance about the town noticing its citizens, they were all Gammas! Was he brought to the island due to his size? Did the rumors about the alcohol in his blood surrogate go too far? Bernard slowly sulked in depression by a nearby river to cry. 

          After living a few days on his new island, Bernard never smiled, talked to anyone; just sat alone throwing rocks at his wall balancing between utter disgust, hatred, and depression. There were so many dents in the wall, Bernard felt it reflected his soul and his inner feelings. In some ways, he could connect and relate with the wall. Before long he got fed up and began to bounce the rocks off the wall at an awkward angle so that they would hit himself in the face. He figured he should be feeling as much pain as the wall and this continued until Bernard was put in a moribund state. The many bruises and cuts in his head were only a symbol of his insanity, so he kept on throwing the rocks until the last one splashed on his already bloody head killing him instantly.

Book Review/Personal Response

Summary ( start with what the book is about.)

         Brave New World gives an interesting perspective on the futuristic methods of governmental control as well as its presence in dictating its citizens' destinies to follow in a consumerist conformity lifestyle. It's all about limiting freedom and enforcing control without anyone knowing it. 

         The society of the Brave New World keeps its citizens ignorant through determining their path in life and making them like whatever it is. There are sewage workers who get alcohol poured into their pre-life embryos to dumb them down into loving working in the wastes and gross disgusting depth of the cities. Conversely, they have the ability to make people superior and have a brain with the capacity of individual thought for few, enough intelligence to run a large portion of the World.
          Thankfully, with all the differences in the people, there is harmony! The masses are always happy with their current situation due to their programming and all the propaganda ingrained into their synthetic minds. Everyone belongs to everybody and should anything bad ever happen; any bad feelings or resentful actions, there is always soma for you to take to ease your troubles away in a drug-like fantasy.

          However, there is still no such thing as a perfect society and there are accidents that cause some people to break free from the cycle of the working social status. In the book we see three of these people. Bernard Marx, who was conditioned to be one of the smarter people in the society, however has a body type unlike his fellow geniuses and is subject to torment and laughter by those of lesser intelligence. This causes him to be depressed, submerged in melancholy and sadness, causing him to want to rebel and be different.
          The other two who break free of the mould in the society are John and Helmholtz. Helmholtz is a writer for the things that the babies listen to while they are asleep. Like, Bernard, he is sad because he feels he is fulfilling his full purpose in life and is being limited to writing simple lies. Both him and Bernard take care of a young boy that grew up on an Native American Reservation but has spent his life reading Shakespeare. He is taken from the Reservation to society which incites many events that shapes John's view of this New World.
 
           Throughout John's journey in the New World, he finds out that civilization is not much to his liking. Everything and everyone is superficial, materialistic, and ignoble. It all worries him and he acts on his judgement (with quite a bit of help from Shakespeare.) to try to make some difference by throwing soma out the window at a hospital, or refusing to go to a party so people can gaze upon him like a museum display, or throwing little kids across the room at a hospital.

           All these things eventually boil down to the three characters being put on trial by the World Controller. They are too smart for this society and don't particularly like the values held by the 'fake' people. Bernard and Helmholtz are sentenced to exile on an a deserted island which is more of a reward than anything as it holds people with equal intelligence and morals to them. John however must stay in London to continue on with an experimente. John, already disgusted and angry with the workings of the system, will NOT be experimented on and runs away and creates his own exile in a deserted lighthouse outside the city.

            Unfortunately, there is no escape from the people as they show up at the lighthouse and make a spectacle out of the native boy. His self-torture that is meant to purify himself and cleanse him from the New World is viewed as an act for them to watch, something to entertain them. It all comes down to John's breakdown and suicide in which the book ends and society goes on as if nothing happened...

        
            I actually enjoyed this book, it has quite a dark look into a possible future while having a light, humorous side due to it's satirical nature. It does have its fair share of confusing moments and points that might make you go "What the...?", but it all makes sense in such a weird, seemingly lifeless society.
            I do like the books like Fahrenheit 451, Harrison Bergeron, and some of the other futuristic, governmental control books as well. While it holds a serious warning to a culture and world that is subject to possessing an absolute grip on every single citizen's life, the humor in the book reinforces the absurdity and pandemonium of such a future.

        
            I would definitely recommend this book even to people who don't care too much about futuristic, controlling governmental books as it can still give a good laugh due to the silly ways human nature has been dumbed down to such an animalistic culture. 
           Shakespeare fans could also be able to recognize the extravagant amount of Shakespeare references in this book and could perhaps draw a larger meaning from the book through this.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 18 ]---|>

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - THE LAST ONE!
Summary: Helmholtz and Bernard wanted to say goodbye to John before they made their departure to their island exiles. When they find him, he is very pale due to his self-cleansing intake of mustard and hot water. Bernard confesses that he is sorry for everything that had happened and even though they were all sad at their predicament, internally they were happy for one another. John then tells them that he asked Mustapha Mond if he would be allowed to go the islands with them, yet was declined, due to him wanting John to continue in the experiment. But John'd be damned if he were to be some experimental being, therefore he states that he too is leaving tomorrow.

          John takes a long adventure and finds a lighthouse for him to begin his life of solitude. (Good luck with that...) While at the lighthouse, he engages in a lot of self torture that he believes is bringing him closer to God, cleansing him of the filth that he attained in the New World, and helping him to be 'good'.
          Later, John starts to think about what he's going to do, somewhat of a plan. He had previously bought some blankets, rope, string, nails and other essentials and with his remaining money he hoped that he could last with it over the winter. For the spring and summer months, he has begun a garden and began to fashion arrows and a bow for food!

         But alas, John has been spotted! (OOOH NOOO!) Some land-workers driving around spotted him whipping himself one day and that's all that was needed to get the word out to the rest of London!
         Only three days later John is visited by a News reporter that is curious (along with the rest of the society) about a Savage's life and his solitude. John answers with some Zuni words and BAM! swiftly kicks the reporter away. Nevertheless, he is swarmed by more reporters, each given their own kick in the behind.

        After a while, John is alone again, and continuing his garden work. He has lots of time to let his mind wonder which sadly bring him to Linda...but even worse, he has thoughts of Lenina! They shock him so much since he swore he would forget about her, he flails himself into a thorny bush and grabs the whip yet again to punish himself.

          For the past three days, John has been watch by Darwin Bonaparte who has been collecting footage of John's behaviour and puts it into a movie. It's a hit! John is then a famous social icon without even knowing it and tons of people come to see him. The massive crowd outside his house baffles him as they throw him snacks as if he were an animal. He yells at them to go away, but it only pleases them and encourages them to engage in a cheer. "WE WANT THE WHIP!" "WE WANT THE WHIP!" They get the whip alright, but it is not John who gets whipped, it is Lenina! He spies her coming off a helicopter with Henry Foster in the midst of all the commotion of the crowd. He breaks through the mass of bodies and attacks her, but everyone else begins chanting Orgy-Porgy!!!

           Regaining consciousness after a large soma-induced orgy, John wakes up with terror! He proceeds to go atop the lighthouse and hang himself... :(

Vocabulary:
Unanimity - (n.) -The state of being unanimous/harmony/agreement.

Literary Elements:
Allusions:
Hamlet ---> "A good kissing carrion."
                    "Sleep. Perchance to dream, for in that sleep of death, what dreams?"

Macbeth ---> "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."

King Lear ---> "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. Thunder again; words that proclaimed themselves true-truer somehow than truth itself. And yet that same Gloucester had called them ever-gentle gods."

Measure for Measure ---> "Thy best of rest is sleep and that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st thy death which is no more."

Trolius & Cressida ---> "Fry, lechery, fry."

Why Chapter is Important:
It's apparent that John is unfit for society through most of the chapters he is involved in. Through all the events that happen in this chapter, it appears he has had enough and can see only one last way to liberate himself from this horrible world.

Consumerism is really huge in this chapter when everyone rushes to see this new movie-star Savage. They honestly don't care about his unstable emotions but only of fulfilling their own enjoyment through seeing this primitive creature. The outrage about the feely made about him, the 5 reporters that come to see him, John is a very popular person and cannot stand it.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 17 ]---|>

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Summary: John and Mustapha are left alone in the room and continue to talk. John asks what else Mustapha has sacrificed for happiness and the Controller exclaims, Religion. Mustapha walks to his safe and pulls out the Bible as well as many other religion-based pieces or literature. He reads some aloud to John. When he finishes, he talks about the independence that is ingrained in every young and prosperous person is not enough to get them through 'til the end, so by staying in the young and prosperous phase of life 'til the end, enjoying the infantile bliss is all the people can do which caused them to tone out religion or religious thoughts. John then criticizes the nature of humans to automatically think of God by instinct, whilst they're alone and thinking of death. Mustapha retorts stating that everyone is conditioned to not believe in God, and they are never in a state of solitude due to the said conditioning that makes their lives devoid of a lack of human contact.

         John, still puzzled, inquires Mustapha to recall a bit from King Lear, where it seems that there is an evident God running and managing the lives of the characters and holding presence unlike New World society. Mustapha and John continue to go back and forth about self-denial, which has turned to self-indulgence and consumerism; chastity which has turned to the expulsion of passion which consequently leads to the instability; nobility and heroism, which is now thorough conditioning that prevents any feelings of having to protect someone or something out of passion, when temptations are to be resisted, all things that will eventually end leading to the end of civilization.

          By this point, John seems a little irate. When he tells Mustapha of the man who endured the stinging flies and mosquitoes in the garden which have been eliminated from the society. John scorns the society for taking the easy way out of life, rather then learning to face the challenges, oppose the problem, they simply get rid of it! Mustapha insists that the enduring of these things is unnecessary due to the scientific advances and such things as the Violent Passion Surrogate which acts somewhat as a replacement for violent, fearful 'emotions' in the person without any of the inconveniences. John likes the inconveniences, the society however doesn't not; would much rather a life of leisure and infantile comfort. John and Mustapha then end it with John accepting his claim to the right to be unhappy.

Vocabulary:
Superfluous - (adj.) - unnecessary or needless. 

Literary Elements:
Allusions:
Life and Death of King John ---> "I Pandulph, of Fair Milan, cardinal."

Mentions of The Bible, Imitation of Christ, and Othello.

King Lear: "The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes." "Thou hast spoken right; 'tis true. The wheel has  come full circle; I am here."
(Pleasant vices in this society being unending happiness, soma, consumerism, all things that make the society so disgraceful to John, he feels that gods are or should be punishing man for these acts.)

Othello: "If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till the have wakened death."
(Reinforcing John's argument on necessary suffering; enduring makes such calms much more rewarding by riding through them.)

Why Chapter is Important: Just John and Mustapha in this chapter. They talk about the role of religion in this society. How God hasn't changed throughout the years, but it is man who changed. Christianity causes unhappiness with thoughts of afterlife, death, and sinful forgiveness. Society must not have these plaguing thoughts running through their citizens, so religion has been forgotten and thrown into the vault. John argues that it seems natural for man to feel some sort of instinct or presence of God, which Mustapha disagrees with. Although Ford is the apparent God replacement in the society, the people have no unhappiness when worshipping him; for example in the Solidarity Services.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 15 ]---|>

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Summary: John walks into a group of Delta Hospital workers with his mother's death fresh on his mind. Not really paying any attention to his surroundings, he pushes through the workers who groan at his unpleasant walking. He snaps out of it once he gets nudged by enough people, and hears a loud shout for the days soma distribution. All the Deltas flock to the table where the soma is coming from; orderly, in single file. The words of Tempest begin to mock John at this point, civilization and humanity is destroyed in his view, and the barbaric congregation of the soma-wanting Deltas pushes him to the brink. He shrieks, "STOP!". He is now the centre of attention and all the people are marveled by this strange person's antics. John declares the filth and the poison that is soma, and over everything the Sub-Bursar says, he quickly contradicts them until he has infuriated the crowd so much that the Sub-Bursar runs to the telephone.

          Meanwhile, Bernard and Helmholtz are suspecting they'd meet John at one their usual meeting places, however, a phone call from the Sub-Bursar directs them in an urgent hurry to the hospital to get John.
          John is at the hospital continuing his rant, his rage makes his speech easier, and he begins to take drastic action by flinging some soma out a nearby window. All the Delta's are speechless at this unspeakable act of horrible disgustingness. WHO WOULD EVER THROW AWAY SOMA?!?!?!?
          Bernard and Helmholtz see this, however Bernard fears for John, knowing that he will definitely get killed. Helmholtz on the other hand, happily joins John in the fray. Once all the soma is thrown out the window, John and Helmholtz are charged at by the Deltas. Bernard runs in to help them, but quickly doubles back because he is a little girl. No, not really, but his judgement is being clouded with the fact that he might be killed in the incident. He is becoming more selfish and not as rebellious as he thought and desired he was at the beginning of the story.
          The police run in with soma machines and music boxes to calm the crowd. Oh look, Bernard decides to do something! He shouts for help, but he gets pushed out of the way from the police. He increases his yelping and gets very frustrating to the police; Bernard takes a shot of soma-water in the face and crumbles to the ground. Soon after Bernard is shot, soma vapour is sprayed throughout the whole hospital, which leads to al the Deltas kissing each other and John and Helmholtz being captured. Bernard however, attempts to sneak out, but gets caught due to the police knowing his affiliations and friendship with John and Helmholtz.

Vocabulary:

Literary Elements:
Tempest Quote Irony: The "O Brave New World" quote has finally taken a whole spin in this chapter. Words that filled him with joy, are now supposedly 'mocking' John. This brave new world has such people in it, which is definitely (in the viewpoint of John) a very horrible thing for he sees the society is doomed to infantile damnation and has been cursed by being engrossed in it. (Which leads to his later self-torture.)


Why Chapter is Important:
Chapter 15 seems to be the climax of the book, where John finally snaps and starts a revolution of sorts in the hospital which leads to his trial with Mustapha. (Falling Action)

For control, the police in this society are shown to use little to no violence in controlling the people. They come in with music boxes and guns that shoot soma-water at the people in order to change them into blissful, happy people!

We also see Bernard backing out of his supposed rebellious nature that he felt so mighty for having when the Director called him a heretic. He has slowly slipped into the comformity of all the rest of the citizens and his individual thinking is growing more and more selfish.

Linda's death and dependence on soma has (as it should) given him a very deep hatred for the stuff he calls poison to the body and soul. With his mother dead and society on his last nerve, he rebels against the Delta workers and the soma distributors, throwing it out the window. His motive for this is the fight against artificial happiness. John's disgust with soma and the easy joy it brings people seems to be a constraint of freedom; the freedom of suffering, to overcome life's obstacles, and all such unpleasantries that are wiped away in the New World.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 16 ]---|>

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Summary: All three protagonists are ushered into a room all with different attitudes and feelings about their current situation. Helmholtz is indifferent about the situation and seats himself in the most comfortable chair in the room and laughs aloud to himself about it all. Bernard however, is scared, shocked, and absolutely terrified about what might happen; with this, he finds a very lumpy uncomfortable chair in the corner to sulk in. John however, doesn't take a seat anywhere, but finds a book on Ford that he picks up yet finds highly uninteresting.

         Shortly after this, Mustapha Mond walks in and greets the three men. He starts off by striking up a conversation with John and his dislike to civilization. John feels at ease with the Director and answers with a truthful no. The conversation escalates when Mustapha reveals that like John, he is well-versed in Shakespeare's writing. John becomes delighted and asks questions about the books and why they are prohibited. Mustapha Mond tells all about stability, control, and keeping the people happy; sacrificing some beautiful, excellent things (like famous literature) in order to maintain stability. Mustapha Mond also goes into his past, and his experiences with being a scientist and his own dilemma with facing island exile. When Bernard comes to the realization that he will in fact be sent off to an island, he freaks out!!! He pleads, he begs, he gets on his hands and knees as if he were about to be sentenced to death. Nonetheless, Mustapha phones in for some guards to come in and spray him with some soma.

          Mustapha continues talking with the two remaining men. He states his enviousness Helmholtz and allows him to choose what kind of island he would like to be sent off to. Helmholtz decides on an island with a miserable climate and horrible weather because it will help him in his writing. Mustapha then declares it be the Falkland Islands, and with this decision, Helmholtz leaves the room to check up on Bernard.

Vocabulary:
Galvanized - (v.) - to startle, stimulate into sudden activity.


Literary Elements:
Allusions:
Tempest ---> "Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears, and sometimes voices." (Used to show John that Mustapha has also read Shakespeare.)

Macbeth ---> "But they're...they're told by an idiot." (In reference to the feelies and the simulated life that John sees as redundant, pretentious, and lacking purpose. The society he hoped for, somewhat similar to the morals and values held in Shakespearean plays, seems ideal for him, because Shakespeare was not an idiot.)

Mentioning of Cyprus ---> an island southeast of Europe that Aphrodite was said to have been born on; Aphrodite being the goddess of beauty, sexuality, and happiness.


Why Chapter is Important: Mustapha Mond, who seems to be in control of Europe as a whole, would be assumed to have been conditioned for the job; leading the whole society. However, he opens up to the three men, describing that he isn't really so bad and was in their situation with his dabbling with extreme sciences. To me, his antagonistic aura has left, where he feels like the exiling them to an island is for the best of them because he respects their spirit and intergrity. He seems friendly enough and that anything wrong or spiteful he has done was purely in the name of the duty of maintianing social stability.

Bernard's changing is also referenced in this chapter how quick he is to blame John and Helmholtz for the whole fiasco when the threat of island exile comes up. Mustapha is disgusted and explains this as being more of a reward than a punishment.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 14 ]---|>

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Summary: John, after receiving a phone call from about his mother, rushes to the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying to see her. He runs in and asks the nurse to lead him to his mother. John's choice of words make the nurse confused and she begins to blush, nonetheless she takes him to the room where Linda is on the bed. John goes beside her and reminisces of his childhood and all the good things Linda told him about the New World. Sadly, he can't think of the good times for very long because his thoughts are interrupted by a flood of little children coming into the room for their death conditioning! They come in and mock Linda's horrible physicality. John takes this very bad, especially when the kids repeatedly berate him with "Why is she so fat", "Isn't she awful?", "Look at her teeth!".

          Anybody in today's society (hopefully) would be seriously offended by this, and John takes action by grabbing one of the little children by the collar, gives him a well-deserved smack on the ear, and flings him away crying. The nurse becomes aware of the child's pain and comes in and tells John that she will tolerate him striking the children! However, John is not sure why they are even here and takes their presence as a disgrace to his dying mother. She informs him that they are being death conditioned and that he is interfering and setting them back a couple of months. The nurse leads the kids off to go play some hunt-the-zipper and drink some caffeine-solution, leaving John at peace with the moribund Linda. He starts to regain his previous focus, but his mind is quickly plagued by images of his mother and Popé. To add insult to injury, Linda then wakes up, gazing into John's eyes and murmurs, "Popé!". John tries to get Linda to remember that he is her son, but he can't seem to break that barrier between reality and her soma-holiday. Linda gave a last gasp for air, clawing at her neck and trying to intake the air that she could not longer breathe.

         John rushes for a nurse to help (good luck) but no one can make it back to her bed in time to do anything. Linda had died. John couldn't help but cry and let out his sadness. This confuses the nurse who thinks that this shameless activity will confuse the children, and if she did anything to comfort him, it might upset him and lead to him doing more harm to the children. John is left alone with his sobs and his repeated "Oh God, God, God, God, God..." until the children return once more. These little kids are so annoying to John, so when all the stupid questions and the infant behaviour are thrown at him by the children yet again, he walks towards one and shoves him to the ground; the chapter ends.

Vocabulary:
Moribund! - (adj.) - in a close-to-death/deathish state.

Constituents - (n.) a person who authorizes another to act on one's behalf.

Literary Elements:
Irony: Pretty much whole chapter. Attitudes and hospital workers' views on death and John's behaviour.

Why Chapter is Important: This chapter marks the end of Linda's life which leaves John with a huge emotional wound that he will carry throughout the rest of the book. Her death has a worse impact on John due to the fact Linda struggles to remember him due to her heavy soma influence, imagining him to be Popé. The contrasting views on death between him, the children, and the nurses put him over the edge driving him more and more mad until he snaps in the next chapter.

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 13 ]---|>

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Summary: Henry comes in and asks Lenina to a feely. However, she declines due to her depression by John's actions. She then tells Fanny about it and she, much like the ordeal with Henry Foster, says Lenina should stay off the one man mentality and be more promiscuous.
           John then hears his doorbell ring, hoping it's Helmholtz answers it, revealing Lenina. John and Lenina admit their love for each other and John spurs some Shakespeare at her. She really doesn't understand and grows irritable at John going on about lions, vacuum cleaners, and crazy stuff. She is a little under the influence of soma at this moment, and she presents her self naked to John where he smacks her and calls her a whore.
She then runs to the bathroom to inspect her damages. After a long wait in the bathroom, John gets a phone call, presumably about Linda and he rushes to see her. Lenina then takes the opportunity to sneak out of his house and go back home.

Literary Elements:
Allusions:
Tempest:
- "There be some sports are painful but their labour delight in them sets off."
- "But some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone"    ^continuation^
- "If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite..."
- "The murkiest den, the most opportune place, the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust."
- "The strongest oaths are straw to the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious, or else goodnight your vow."

Timon of Athens:
- "For those milk paps that through the window bars bore at men's eyes..."

Othello:
- "Impudent Strumpet!"

King Lear:
- "The wren goes to't and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are Centaurs, though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit. Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is a sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie, pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination."

Trolius and Cressida:
- "Outliving beauty's outward with a mind that doth renew than blood decays."

Twelfth Night:
- "If I do not usurp myself, I am."

Vocabulary:
Trypanosomiasis - (n.) - A parasitic sleeping infection.

Strumpet - (n.) A promiscuous woman, whore.

Why Chapter is Important:
This chapter shows John and Lenina's emotions for each other and misunderstood they are of each other. Since mostly everything John knows about love has been from learned from Shakespeare and Linda's situation and how it related to Hamlet only reinforced his justification of his actions/decisions from Shakespeare. Lenina's hypnopaedic learning and the New World way of living is how she acts towards her attraction to John.

Although, Lenina's whore-like behaviour is very discomforting to John who has been rapidly finding society to his disliking doesn't help one bit. More and more is being thrown at John and it shouldn't be too long before he snaps! :O

BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 12 ]---|>

CHAPTER TWELVE
Summary: Bernard has invited a whole bunch of important people to a 'Come-gaze-upon-the-reason-I'm-so-popular' party so everyone can meet the Savage. Although, before the party starts, Bernard has to go get John, but John has experienced a lot in the past chapter and has grown upset with the New World society. Bernard pleads for John to come out but all he gets in reply is some Zuñi words as well as a "Go to hell!".
          Bernard has to then face his guests without a Savage causing everyone to get pissed off at him for tricking them into treating such an inferior Gamma-Minus with respect for taking care of such a creature. All the party-goers leave disgruntled and Bernard slips back into the depression and melancholy that he had in the beginning of the book.
           He goes back to Helmholtz and hopes that he will be taken back as a friend, which he does! Helmholtz didn't really feel any hatred for Bernard when he abandoned their friendship, so there is almost no hesitation to re-friend each other. Helmholtz says that he has got himself into trouble by teaching his students some rhymes that he made up about being alone. (An individualistic writing that is looked down on in society.) Although it was a bad thing to do, he is happy because he found that inner calling that needed to come out; he found his voice.

          John and Helmholtz also become friends, better than Helmholtz and Bernard had been. (Which infuriates Bernard with intense jealousy!!!!) Helmholtz and John exchange poetry and rhymes which please one another, but when John reads about the Capulets wanting Juliet to marry Paris, Helmholtz finds the situation hilarious and John gets offended.

Vocabulary:
Sepulchral - (adj.) pertaining to a tomb or a burial site.

Why Chapter is Important:
Mustapha looking over the 'New Theory of Biology' paper and praising it for how ingenious, however it affects the social stability of the society, and is therefore condemned. It brings censorship into the fray of governmental control in this book, as well as showing that the World Controller some individualism much like Helmholtz and Bernard.(As evidenced in "What fun it would be, if one didn't have to think about happiness!")

Helmholtz being an individual as well gets along with John very well as they can share their insights about poetry. However, Helmholtz is a product of the new society and has been conditioned like everyone else. This is why he finds the Paris and Juliet marriage situation so absurd and comical. It's this that destroys John's image of Helmholtz as being one of the only people he could really open up to. This furthers his contempt for the brave new world that had such people in it.