Twice earlier, John has quoted the line from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, in which Miranda, in awe, contemplates people from the outside world she has never before seen: "O brave new world / That has such people in it!" The first quotation, in Chapter 5, following John's meeting with Bernard and Lenina in Malpais, is straightforward and joyous. This short, but eventful chapter highlights the change in John's perception of the dystopia that will bring about the action propelling the novel toward its conclusion. When the police come, they arrest John as well as Bernard and Helmholtz. When they fail to respond, John seizes the soma and throws it out the window, causing a riot among the Deltas.īernard and Helmholtz arrive to save John, and they become involved in the riot themselves. Suddenly inspired, John calls to the Deltas to give up the drug. "O brave new world" rings hollowly in his head. In the hospital vestibule, John sees Deltas lining up for their soma ration.
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