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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Brave New World Ch. 16

They are in Mond's office and each with different emotions. 
After Mond asks him if he likes civilization and he says no, John continues to explain that he's one of the few who read shakespeare. only one of the few because they are taught to consume new things, not old. 
Mond explains the experiment in which the World State filled an island of Cyprus with Alphas, which eventually led into a civil war. 
Leisure increases chances to think which leads to more consumption of soma
Art and science have been renounce because of the stability
Bernard is anxious and fall to his knees and is taken to another room to be calmed down with soma

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