He makes John his scapegoat. Bernard is simultaneously grateful and resentful that Helmholtz gives him the friendship he needs without criticizing him for his earlier unfriendliness. Helmholtz has gotten himself into trouble for reading some unorthodox rhymes to his students at the college.
But he is excited to have finally found a voice of his own. John and Helmholtz meet, and they take to one another right away. Bernard is jealous of their affection for one another and wishes he had never brought them together. He takes soma to escape his feelings. John reads passages from Shakespeare to Helmholtz. The absurdity of having a mother and father is not the only thing that he finds funny; the fact that anyone would make a fuss over which man a girl should have is even funnier.
In this section, John gets a thorough introduction to World State society, which, for the most part, disgusts him.
He perceives the culture of the World State to be superficial, inhumane, and immoral. The relationship between John and Bernard dramatizes the major themes of The Tempest. Everyone but John is content to allow Linda to abuse soma, even though they know it will kill her within a month or two.
Linda goes on permanent soma-holiday, living out the short remainder of her life in a blissful haze of hallucinations and fantasies. Everyone in London clamors to see John, but they are equally determined not to see Linda. Why does John become popular , but not Linda? John is misterious and unknown because he was born on a reservation. Linda is a mother mother who has grown fat, and ugly over the years.
John's love for Lenina is intense because it brings out so many deep emotions for him. He is more emotionally involved with his feelings for her than she can even understand.
He is willing to make a life-long commitment to her by marrying her. Podsnap's Technique A way of ripening all the eggs of the ovary at once so that thousands of siblings can be made within a two year period. He is tired of being used by Bernard and tired of being put on display.
How does John's refusal affect Bernard? He's humiliated and loses all self-confidence. The Society's Values The state supports and encourages its values so that it can perpetuate itself without challenge.
For this reason, babies are conditioned to hate books and flowers to uphold the values of the World State in Brave New World. Why is it ironic that the Director of Hatcheries becomes a father? Describe the changes in Bernards character after he becomes john's guardian. Seeing Lenina effects John because he has never seen someone so "civilized", with auburn hair and fair skin, and he begins to blush and have feelings for her.
The expression on her face is such an "amazing novelty" because she is so beautiful, he has never seen anything like her before. John declares that he wants God, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, and sin.
Mond tells him that his wishes will lead to unhappiness. In defying Bernard's demands for him to appear at a very important social gathering, John uses two techniques of resistance — retreat and the Zuni language — both expressing his indifference to and independence from the powerful people of the London world.
Faced with demand to behave as a conventional celebrity to ensure Bernard's continued social success, John returns to his Malpais identity, speaking Zuni and seeking comfort in the poetry of Shakespeare. Bernard's helplessness and John's angry disillusion will grow in the coming chapters — creating the climax and bringing about the events of the conclusion.
The main idea of the chapter comes into focus, however, with Helmholtz's surprising composition of a real poem, as opposed to the slogans and catchy phrases he usually creates as a writer of hypnopaedia and feely scenarios.
The theme of the poem — solitude — reveals dangerous anti-social leanings promptly reported to the authorities and opens the possibility of a poetic response from John — a reading from Shakespeare. Helmholtz's delight and fascination hint that the "emotional engineer" may be able to respond to and even compose the real poetry he feels compelled to try. Huxley holds the exciting possibility before the reader — then suddenly whisks it away with Helmholtz's loud guffaw at the verses from Romeo and Juliet.
Helmholtz's ability to enjoy Shakespeare goes only so far. After that point, Helmholtz's conditioning takes over, preventing him from sharing the imaginative vision offered by the poetry. He especially hates how Bernard alternates between bragging and feeling sorry for himself. In the passage you mention, Bernard has been bragging. Most of Bernard's isolation is self-imposed. He worries that others don't respect him, which means he carries himself with insecurity, which leads to others disrespecting him.
Why are Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson friends? Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are friends because they both feel like outsiders. How does John's refusal affect Bernard? He's humiliated and loses all self-confidence. How does Bernard react to his downfall? He weeps and takes soma to cover the pain.
What happened to Bernard and Helmholtz? They are both banished to islands to live with other people of high caste who couldn't fit into society. John wants to show his grief for his mother and anger at society. He also wants to get rid of his desire for lenina. Firstly, Lenina rejects John's love because she doesn't understand it or where he is coming from.
Two people from two different worlds are doomed to misunderstand each other's behavior with regards to love. It consists of two electromagnets on the same axis.
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