How do the people at the reception feel when the Savage doesn’t appear? What important person has Bernard invited to his reception? Why?īernard has invited the Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury to his reception because he wants to make an impression.Ģ. John gets an important phone call and John ends up having to leave the apartment.ġ. What distracts John from his murderous rage? John ends up slapping Lenina and tells her to leave.ġ0. Lenina is appalled when John says he wants Lenina to marry him and for them to live together forever. Lenina embraces and tries to kiss John then ends up taking all of her clothes off in hopes that she would sleep with him. What does Lenina try to do to seduce John? John wanted to do a physical task to show that he was willing to do anything to prove that he is worthy of her.ħ.

John drops to his knees, in front of Lenina. John had thought that it was Helmholtz at the door.ĥ. Whom had John been expecting when Lenina visits him? Since Lenina is angry she forgets to give an embryo an immunization against sleeping sickness.įanny tells Lenina to make a move and seduce the Savage, John.Ĥ. Because she is upset, what does Lenina forget? Henry Foster recommends that she have a Pregnancy Substitute or a Violent Passion Surrogate.Ģ. What does Henry Foster recommend for Lenina’s condition? The Savage shoves the children out of his way, and leaves.ġ. The nurse wants the Savage to hush because she doesn’t want to upset nor decondition the children. What upsets the nurse when the Savage shouts for her to come to Linda? Linda says the name Popé, and this makes John upset and angry at the same time.ĩ. Whose name does Linda speak? What does this do to John? The nurse tries to pacify the children by giving them chocolate in hopes that it will distract them from all of the madness John is causing.Ĩ. How does the nurse try to pacify the children? The Savage is so upset that he grabs the boy, slaps him, and makes him cry.ħ. How does the Savage react when one boy squeezes up beside him? The Savage’s memories are disturbed when many groups of Delta twins crowd into the ward for their death conditioning.Ħ. John reminisces about when Linda sang to him when he was young and loved him. What are John’s first memories as he sits at Linda’s bedside? Linda is reacting from her soma holiday, and is very unaware of everything around her.Ĥ. The Savage mentions that Linda is his mother. But we can't.' (11.Ward 81 tries to create a pleasant environment, which includes music, aromas, and television, and the room is painted with bright colours.Ģ.

If we could rejuvenate, of course it would be different. 'One day the respiratory centre will be paralyzed. 'Which will finish her off in a month or two,' the doctor confided to Bernard. She took as much as twenty grammes a day. Shaw at first demurred then let her have what she wanted. Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses. The remedy was to make the holiday continuous. The holiday it gave was perfect and, if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not intrinsically, but only by comparison with the joys of the holiday. Soma played none of these unpleasant tricks. The return to civilization was for her the return to soma, was the possibility of lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting, without ever being made to feel as you always felt after peyotl, as though you'd done something so shamefully anti-social that you could never hold up your head again. And Linda, for her part, had no desire to see them.

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