Thanks for addressing my comment from the previous post. Excellent observation that Huxley could have done much more with John.
No question that Shakespeare should be viewed or acted instead of read. Among other things, good actors can bring out shadings in the characters that may not be obvious from the bare text. I want to see schools introduce Shakespeare by relying much more on films and trips to live productions.
Rereading the scene where the Pueblo women attack Linda and John, I'm tempted to interpret their anger in what in our world would be called anticolonialist terms. I imagine the Pueblo society feeling resentful of the Fordian one that keeps it in poverty, and seeing Linda sleeping with the women's husbands as the ultimate indignity. Probably not in Doylist terms since Huxley didn't seem to question colonialism.
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No question that Shakespeare should be viewed or acted instead of read. Among other things, good actors can bring out shadings in the characters that may not be obvious from the bare text. I want to see schools introduce Shakespeare by relying much more on films and trips to live productions.
Rereading the scene where the Pueblo women attack Linda and John, I'm tempted to interpret their anger in what in our world would be called anticolonialist terms. I imagine the Pueblo society feeling resentful of the Fordian one that keeps it in poverty, and seeing Linda sleeping with the women's husbands as the ultimate indignity. Probably not in Doylist terms since Huxley didn't seem to question colonialism.