“Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre…Sixteen thousand and twelve in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of identicals. “And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” (Ch 1) For the first time in history…Community, Identity, Stability…If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.” (Ch 1)
“Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!…You really know where you are. “Can’t you see? Can’t you see?…Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!” (Ch 1) We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.” (Ch 1) John's life is not influenced by the hermits of Christianity but by the demons of his own guilt,both worlds represent emptiness and purposelessness.“Essentially, bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development. Filled with despair and self-loathing, he kills himself. John awakens the next day, groggy from soma, and realizes what has happened. A riot breaks out and turns into a sexual orgy. When Lenina herself approaches him, lovesick and heartbroken, John attacks her with a whip. Reporters, film crews, and then crowds intrude on his privacy. Fasting, whipping himself, and vomiting, John strives to exorcise the guilt he feels for Linda's death and his horror of sexual contact with Lenina. John makes plans to retreat to a place of his own, far from the society he has rejected. conclusion to the discussion will drive John into isolation Faced with the choice, John chooses freedom. freedom means the possibility of disease, starvation, and misery. Mond describes soma as "Christianity without tears." John wants freedom while Mond wants stability and comfort. The discomfort and the pain, John maintains, are an essential part of freedom, beauty, and religion. a worthwhile human life requires suffering and danger, from which will spring nobility and heroism.
A life of constant amusement and pleasure, he argues, is "degrading." People cannot experience true happiness if they have never known any differently. John's view: Mond sees comfort as the pinnacle of human experience, John sees it as a barrier to growth and spirituality. God is irrelevant in the brave new world, because material world never loses its pleasure. Monds view: people turn to religion only when age and discomfort impel them to look beyond the physical world. Mond knows about God and religion from the forbidden books he has read, while John has actually lived a religious life in Malpais, surrounded by the rituals of worship and purifying himself in fasting and suffering.
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