So I finished the book "Brave New World" (I know I didn't post my notes on it been kind of lazy) and I thought of a quote that might fit this book. "Love isn't about lust, lust only makes things worse". This is something that I made up that I feel fits this book perfectly. What I basically mean is that love isn't just sex, in fact sex could turn things bad or make matters worse. Just like what happened with Jon in the book.
As we know Jon is a white man birthed from a woman from the world state (who didn't beleive in natural birth). When Bernard takes Jon to the world outside the reservation, Jon gets super excited about the idea. However, Jon is surprised about what he finds. Keep in mind that when Jon saw Linina for the first time he fell in love almost immediately. Jon was super shy about being around Lenina like almost any typical person around their crush.
Alright so going into the outside world Jon was super happy, he found his biological father and was finally where he wanted to be. Continuing on he started to become uncomfortable because of how the world worked. He didn't like that people took soma, looked exactly alike, and everyone banged everyone. He didn't like it one bit and didn't like the fact that Lenina was the exact same way. It started to destroy him inside when his mother (Linda) was dying and her doctor only gave her soma to kill her faster which was also a reason why he started to hate the outside world.
There was a time in the where Lenina ended up with Jon in his room. Jon told Lenina that he loved her due to the fact that it was messing with him so much. She didn't understand the real meaning of love, she only thought love was sex just like everyone else. It's because of what she was taught that she started to undress for Jon thinking he wanted to have sex with her. He didn't. In fact he was trying to figure out what she was doing. When he figured out that she just wanted sex it made him very angry. He pushed her to the floor which causes her to run into the bathroom and lock the door because of her new fear of him. It was because of a phone call that she was able to escape.
There was a point in the book where Jon got tired of seeing people take soma. He was watching Deltas (I think) gettin soma as payment from an Alpha. It was when the 2 Deltas started fighting and the Alpha threatening to stop giving soma that triggered the following events. Jon stood up and yelled at everyone that soma was a poison and that they need to stop taking it to save themselves. He hoped to help people by throwing the soma out the window which then caused the Deltas angry and try to hurt/kill Jon. The Alpha calls the police who calm everything down. Bernard and Helmholtz are sent to islands and Jon gets to stay.
At the end of the book Jon kills himself. He tries to by throwing himself into a bush but only ends up getting more attention because of someone recording him. It caused him to become a joke. It was this that made him want to go into isolation. He was sad,angry, and just plain out didn't want anything to do with the world. He tried to help people but all they did was hurt him. They found Jon at a light house. His imaginations of Lenina drove him crazy into anger. He whipped himself because of his love for Lenina. He saw her among the crowd of people who found him and he chased and whipped her for his anger. He ended up hanging himself because of his depression like emotions. "Love isn't about lust, lust only makes things worse" -me.
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