I believe
there is one change, which comes gradually in the last third of the novel.
However this change have two important moments. The first one is when John, the
savage, refuses to come out in front of all the important people in their part
of the world. When this happens Bernard looks like a fool and people, who have
started to respect him now lose their respect. He is no longer someone who is
important to the world. And yet, John receives greater power.
The second
major part of the change is when John’s mother dies. After this death John
becomes furious with the people in the new world and their view on death and
how they all are away on “soma
holidays”. When Bernard and his friend Heimholtz walks in on him throwing away
all the workers soma they try to calm
him down. Then safety personnel rushes in and arrested John, Bernard and
Heimholtz.
The novel
ends with people getting out to see John, the savage and his weird ways of
living. After he has whipped his back, and people knowing about his beastly
behaviour, they want to see this. When they get to the lighthouse where John
lives, they do not find him. They search inside the house only to find John’s
legs dangling and turning in certain directions as if he has taken his life.
I believe
John took his life. I think this was a good way too end the novel because it
makes me think. And mainly because what happiness is and means. Leading me to
the message of the novel. I believe the message is that unless we feel sadness
and other feelings, we will not know what true happiness is. Also what can
happen if we do not feel the happiness or we cannot feel any fulfilment, like
Bernard and Heimholtz.
The title
is said by John quite a lot and it is a reference to what a character, Miranda,
said in one of the works by Shakespeare. I believe the quote was taken as a
title because it seems appropriate for the plot. When the old world meets the
new world, and how it was maybe a brave way to live in the new world compared
to the old.
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