1. Brave New World Lesson 13
Death can be the most powerful criticism of life: the truth about life. Because I’m going to die, all my values, all my priorities, need be redefined, acquire a new meaning or lose an old one.

2. Brave New World Lesson 13
In modern literature, death is often linked to punishment: the baddies die, the goodies survive.

3. Brave New World Lesson 13
Of all sources of anguish, death is certainly the greatest and potentially the most destabilizing one. BNW must control the entire cycle of life, both birth to death

4. Brave New World Lesson 13
Why was John called to the hospital? A special treatment? Again there’s a clash between the reality of BNW and the requirements of narration.

5. Brave New World Lesson 13
Everything is grossly exaggerated, but there’s a serious element of truth: for us too death is becoming less and less of a tragic event – more like a biological step. Separation between the fear of suffering and the anxiety about a possible afterlife.

6. Brave New World Lesson 13
An inversion of values: one would think that the mentioning in this context of the Other Place refers to heaven or anyway to some kind of afterlife, but no, the Other Place is simply BNW. Paradise is now, and to die means to leave paradise: an awful prospect.

7. Brave New World Lesson 13
JOHN POPE’ LINDA

8. THE DEATH OF LINDA IS A WATERSHED FOR JOHN
Brave New World Lesson 13
THE DEATH OF LINDA IS A WATERSHED FOR JOHN

9. 62 DELTAS AND JOHN: ORDER, CONSENSUS AND THE MESSAGE OF FREEDOM
Brave New World Lesson 13
62 DELTAS AND JOHN: ORDER, CONSENSUS AND THE MESSAGE OF FREEDOM

10. Brave New World Lesson 13
THE DELTAS ARE ALL DOPED. BUT IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND LENINA’S OR BERNARD’S SOMA?

11. THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: IS JOHN A COLONIZER?
Brave New World Lesson 13
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: IS JOHN A COLONIZER?

12. Brave New World Lesson 13
MOND’S 3 POINTS: 1) Art and instability: an inseparable link. 2) Inequality is at the foundation of stability 3) Science is dangerous