lay is also repeated in chapter 18 just before he commits suicide, not by crucifixion but by hanging himself. Escalation occurs when John arrives in the brave new world filled with technology and science. He has trouble adjusting to this new world his mother, Linda, tries to describe to him back in the reservation. John is confronted with cloning, soma, and promiscuity. John quickly finds out that freedom does not exist if everyone is kept captive and limited, reasons why Bernard is sent away. The climax comes about when Mond and John are conversing about literature, God, and the many flaws the new world society has. John brings up the issue of God and why he is not part of their society. Mond replies, " He is not in our society because we chose not to have him reside here" (p.234). Mond goes on to say that in pre-modern times God was suitable because there was a void in society. Mond tells John that they were given a choice, machinery and medicine or God. They of course chose God and remained happy without him. John after hearing these rebuttals is crushed and goes away in sorrow feeling helpless and yet again like he has no peace. Soon after this episode Bernard and Helmholtz are soon sent off to an island where they are quarantined for being thinkers. John now being completely separated from the only ones he could relate to is battered. The den
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