For the final quarter of this novel, John is visiting his mother at the Hospital for the Dying when she takes her final breath before an audience of curious eight year olds undergoing death desensitization conditioning. John feels as if his mother is being disrespected and strikes one of the ogling children then immediately retreats. As he’s fleeing, the hordes of Delta workers are all lining up outside to receive their regular soma ration and with his mother’s passing still fresh in his memory, he lashes out at the employees, taking away their rations and disposing of them out the window. Meanwhile, Bernard had been looking to find John, with no success until he receives a call from the distributer, informing him of the Savage’s disturbance. …show more content…
Belligerent law enforcers show up to to disperse the mass brawl and take John, Bernard and Helmholtz to Mustapha Mond’s office. Here they discuss their differences to the rest of society such as Helmholtz’s interests in science, John’s passion for religion and Bernard’s attraction to pain and emotion. Bernard and Helmholtz leave for an island fit for unorthodox individuals, while John runs away to live a pure and wholesome life, to his standards. He finds an old lighthouse and begins to live the simplistic lifestyle he believes that he deserves, where his days mostly consist of religious practices and self torture in attempts to clean himself from the experiences he encountered in the civilized world. What he didn’t know was that he was being filmed and when the ‘feelie’ of his behavior is released, intrigued and stupefied spectators rush to the Savage’s door to inquire about his peculiar ways. John gets swept up in the frenzy and ends up with soma in his system. When he wakes the next morning he recognises what he had done and he decides that the only way to redeem himself is to end his own …show more content…
A bulk of these final chapters are spent reading of the interactions between three of the main characters and Mustapha Mond, the ‘World Controller’, discussing their views on science, religion, control and happiness. Because of this, the reader is able to get a stronger grasp on the concepts and logic behind this society that has been created. The controllers have eliminated high art and complex beliefs because the society they’ve created is one where these things cannot he comprehended to ensure stability. They’ve explained here with the quote, “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t” (201) that as long as everyone is satisfied with their lives without deeper meaning, although less grand than a life of uncertainty, there should be no reason for things to become unstable. One might infer that some of Mustapha Mond’s logic behind his actions could be a way for Aldous Huxley to get the reader to look further into their own views on science and religion. When taken into consideration, it could be said that the things that give life value are the things that have been revoked and that create chaos in Huxley’s Brave New World. One might then wonder if happiness and balance is really worth the price they’ve paid, to live a life without god, pain, art or passion. With total cohesion, the need to turn to a supreme being is obsolete, for times of yearning,