Brave New World Deconstruction: Part 9 Enter John and Linda

I spent the last part complaining about the colonial attitudes of Lenina and Bernard. And, in part, that's what Huxley intended. In part, it isn't, because I think we're supposed to side with Bernard on this, not siding with Lenina when she's the only one who will even express a desire for the lack of a human sacrifice.

But, all of it is necessary in order for John to happen the way he happens.

There was the sound of feet in the inner room. Lenina did not move, but sat with her face in her hands, unseeing, apart. Only Bernard turned round.

The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, his skin was a white skin, bronzed.

"Hullo. Good-morrow," said the stranger in faultless but peculiar English. "You're civilized, aren't you? You come from the Other Place, outside the Reservation?"

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