Chapter 11

• after having been exposed, the Director resigns and Bernard keeps his job
• John becomes known as "the Savage" and is immediately considered an attraction
• Linda instead knocks herself out with soma and is on constant holiday
• Bernard is popular because he is John‘s appointed guardian and now has a thriving sex-life
• when Bernard boasts about that in front of Helmholtz, he only responds that he feels sadness for Bernard
• because Bernard is offended by that, he decides to not seeing Helmholtz any longer
• he also continues with his unorthodox behavior, feeling that his status as John‘s guardian will protect him
• Bernard overestimates himself and writes to World Controller Mustapha Mond that he agrees with John in finding civilized infantility too easy, thereby heretically criticizing the system
• Mond considers teaching Bernard a lesson after heaving read the letter
• John has a hard time getting used to the World State
  
  • seeing the clones in the factory sickens him an he bitterly echoes Shakespeare: "O brave new world that has such people in it."
  • he refuses to take soma and visits his mother a lot
  • when visiting Eton, he experiences Alpha children who laugh at seeing a film about savages beating themselves with whips
• Lenina becomes attracted to John and goes on a date to a feely with him
• John is disgusted by the movie, even though it revives his passion for Lenina
• because John feels ashamed of his physical desire, he does not sleep with Lenina and locks himself in his room, reading Othello
• Lenina feels bewilderment at John‘s reaction and returns to her room to take soma

Chapter 12

• Bernard plans a big party, promising the guests to see and meet John the Savage
• at the party however, John refuses to leave his room and Bernard feels embarrassed in front of his guests
• all of his guests leave and Lenina is sad that she cannot see John again because she wanted to ask him why he behaved awkwardly after the movie
• one of his guests is the Arch-Community-Songster and he warns Bernard regarding his criticisms of the World State
• because of the happenings at his party, Bernard is no longer popular and retreats into his former melancholia and he blames John for that
• at the same time, Bernard is thankful for Helmholtz‘ unconditional friendship
• in spite of being criticized for reading unorthodox rhymes to his students, Helmholtz is happy that he found a way to express himself
• when John and Helmholtz meet, they feel a certain attraction towards each other and Bernard is jealous about that
• to escape his negative feelings, he takes soma
• John reads Shakespeare to Helmholtz and he is captured by Shakespeare‘s phrases
• however, Helmholtz laughs at a passage from Romeo and Juliet that describes how Juliet‘s parents try to convince Juliet to marry Paris
• he deems it absurd to have parents and he does not comprehend why it needs to be discussed which man a girl should have
• John is embarrassed, offended and sad and thus locks his book away

Function Chapters 11-12

• John is introduced to the World State and its society and feels disgust towards it
  
  • for him, the culture, traditions and conventions are superficial, inhumane and immoral
  • John expected to be fascinated by the new world he plunges into but becomes known as the Savage
  • he is not content with Linda‘s abuse of soma, when everyone else around him is - despite the fact that it is going to kill her within one or two months
  • John is repulsed by the doctor‘s attitude towards the disposability of human beings
  • Bernard allows Linda to go into a soma-haze because that way, she is out of the way and Bernard can exploit John for his own purposes
• Helmholtz as product of the World State
  
  • although Helmholtz behaves unconventional, he is still conditioned through the World State
  • he is able to appreciate Shakespearean language but cannot appreciate the world in which the plays take place
  • John compares his love and desire for Lenina with the relationship of Romeo and Juliet and is even more insulted when Helmholtz laughs at this idealistic attitude towards love
  • Helmholtz thus hurts John‘s cultural values