In the book a lot of Brave New World
Huxley, like other upper class Englishmen, was familiar with history and literature. He expected his readers to know the plays of Shakespeare, to recognize names like Malthus and Marx, to be comfortable to determine in advance, but it is most importantly a word from Christian theology describing. He has read such forbidden books as the works of Shakespeare and the Bible, and knows history and philosophy. Indeed, he resembles the Oxford professors that Huxley knew, and his discussion of happiness with the Savage resembles a tutorial between an Oxford don and his most challenging student. Shakespeare world in Brave New World were the way how people express their thought and feelings as John. Used Shakespeare words to express the feeling tours Lenina, also to respect her. John looks at both worlds through the lenses of the religion he acquired on the Reservation. A mixture of Christianity and American Indian beliefs and the old fashioned morality he learned from reading Shakespeare. His beliefs contradict those of the Brave New World, as he shows in his struggle over sex with Lenina. Lenina can not understand that John avoids sex with her because he loves her and does not want to do something that he thinks in his old fashioned, part Indian and part of Christian. John does every movement by Shakespearean words in ways he will not dishonor her. She embodies the conflict he feels between body and spirit, between love and lust. I think Huxley choose Shakespeare as a medium on John to change the belief of Utopia, because John was not agree with the life they were living in the State. John tries to change the live of Brave New World after his mother dies because of the soma. Eventually, the conflict is too much for him and he kills himself.
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You have good information about shakespeare and you know him very well.
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