They're equally disgusted by life on the reservation. Linda and Lenina share an obsession with material goods, clothing, scent, and appearances. So both women are Betas, both visit the Savage Reservation with an Alpha male, and both are forever changed by it. We don't know for sure that Lenina is a Beta, but the text strongly suggests as much, so we're going to assume that's the case. Disturbing psychoanalysis aside, what do the two women have in common? Well, both are typical upper caste women from the civilized world.
Linda and Lenina constitute the big Freudian pairing in Brave New World, since one woman is John's mother and the other his would-be lover. The Native Americans stand in a circle during their ritual, as do the twelve members of Bernard's Solidarity Service. In the third scene, John is naked from the waist up, as is the boy taking the beating at the reservation. "Oh, he's coming!" screamed Clara Deterding and it was as though she were having her throat cutįirst one woman had shrieked, and then another and another, as though they were being killed. And look at this line from the first scene: The whipping at the reservation is a sacrifice to the gods, and of course the final scene is a sort of crucifixion. Religious implications further connect these episodes: Solidarity Service is a mockery of religion, with its "Sign of the T" and prayers to Ford. Finally, soma is used in the first and third scenes, and Linda wishes aloud that she had it in the second. Up there, in Malpais, the drums were being beaten." The phrase "Orgy-porgy" dominates the Solidarity Service Lenina whispers it softly to herself in Malpais, and the crowd strikes up the refrain for the third time in the final chapter. During Bernard's Solidarity Service, we hear the " indefatigable beating of drums" while the dancers "beat and beat out the indefatigable rhythm." (Our italics.) Later, at the reservation, Lenina witnesses "the whole air pulsing, pulsing with the indefatigable movement of blood. Huxley connects these three scenes even at the level of the word. The third is the meeting of these two worlds-John the Savage and the civilized citizens of the World State-where we get the height of violence and the most explicit sex. The second is part of the Savage Reservation and has to do with violence. The first is part of the civilized world and has to do with sex. nature), we thought it would be more interesting to look at these three scenes. Rather than talk about the obvious (civilized vs. These three scenes are part of a larger "foil pair"-the World State and the Savage Reservation. Foil Character Role Analysis Bernard's Solidarity Service, The Whipping at the Savage Reservation, and The Big Orgy Episode
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