John challenges the Director, asking whether the citizens couldn’t at least all be created as Alphas. The police leave Bernard, Helmholtz, and John in Mond’s office. Mond points out that Shakespeare is a forbidden text. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Maby wvh5104.
When she arrives along with the chanting crowd, his resolve collapses and, when he wakes the next morning, his realization that he has succumbed to the very thing he was most set against drives him to kill himself. John feels a powerful sexual attraction to her, a temptation to give in to the “pleasant vices” that he finds so loathsome and prevalent in World State society. His self-punishment is a desperate attempt to hold onto his own values, truth over happiness among others, in the face of overwhelming pressure from the world around him. The last section of the novel consists of John’s departure to the lighthouse to punish himself. Having read about the “orgy of atonement” in the papers, a swarm of visitors descends on John’s lighthouse, discovering that he has hanged himself. The newspapers publish the incident and more reporters come to John’s home. When he awakes the next day, he remembers everything with horror. John kicks one reporter and angrily demands they respect his solitude. The next day, reporters come to interview him.
Bernard and Helmholtz say good-bye to John. John asks Mond if he can go with them to the islands, but Mond refuses because he wants to continue “the experiment.” He plants his own garden and performs rituals of self-punishment to purge himself of the contamination of civilization. One day, some Delta-Minus workers see John whipping himself.
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