Out of frustration, he shakes her in an effort to get her to recognize him. Her mention of Pope, though, converts his memories to bad ones. Until this point, John had been remembering the positive memories with her at the Indian village Malpais. When Linda returns to a state of semi-consciousness, she asks for Pope. The head nurse is upset that John interfered in the death conditioning and warns him to behave. John angrily picks one of the boys up and tosses him away from her. When the boys notice Linda, they make fun of her ugliness and fatness. The idea is that if death and fun intermingle, then people will lose their natural fear of dying. The boys act as if they are in a game room, and the head nurse encourages them to have fun. Meanwhile, the head nurse leads an entire Bokanovsky group (a large group of identical twins) into the room for their death conditioning. John finds Linda in an unconscious state and tries to rouse her. Since society has abandoned individuality, they consider dying as beneficial to the population. He encounters the head nurse, who seems astonished that anyone would want to see the dying or dead. John goes to the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying to see Linda. Ironically, whereas John struggled to belong to the Indian social structure, he now struggles to avoid his new society. He realizes that he cannot survive in this society any more than he could survive in the Indian village. Lenina's nakedness causes John to realize the gross imperfections of the dystopian society. However, when stripped of its garments, the society appears just as base and human as the Indian society that John left. Like Lenina, the society seemingly promotes beauty, happiness, and perfection. Lenina's nakedness may also reflect the unveiling of her society’s true nature. As a result, John takes all of his rage out on Lenina and drives her away from him. In the baseness of nudity, Lenina becomes an object that embodies his mother's base attributes. At that moment, she loses the power of being desirable to him. Thus, when Lenina strips for him, she becomes everything he hates about Linda. Since he shares monogamous ideals with the Indian tribe, John has a great deal of suppressed anger towards his mother. John tells how he used to become furious at his mother because she would have sex with so many men. John's actions are enigmatic at first but logical in light of his past. His reaction and their subsequent struggle destroy Lenina's move towards individuality. Consequently, Lenina quotes her hypnopaedic learning to John while she is in the bathroom. The entire scene of Lenina going to John is an assertion of individuality, but after her stripping naked causes John to erupt in violence, she immediately reverts to the security of her sociological ideals. When John tells her he loves her, she logically assumes that he must want to have sex with her. Since Lenina has no conception of other cultures and traditions, let alone the Indian traditions, having sex is her conception of love. Thus, she constantly requires soma in order to interact with John, taking it during their first date and again before going to his house. The fact that she experiences new emotions throughout this experience makes her actions and thoughts more like those of an individual, creating a sense of inner conflict. Her new emotional monogamy goes against her conditioning. Lenina's desire for John shows that she has fallen in love with him. Learning that Linda is sick, John rushes out of the room, leaving the terrified Lenina in his room. She begs him to return her clothes and belongings. While John tries to slap her, Lenina runs into the bathroom and shuts the door. ![]() He screams, "Whore, impudent strumpet," and he flings her away. John, however, reacts first with shock and then with rage. Lenina responds by stripping off her clothes and trying to kiss him, a natural reaction given her cultural upbringing. John’s constant discussion of his feelings and quoting of Shakespeare confuses Lenina, and she only understands him after he tells her that he loves her. John, with images from Shakespeare in his head, tells her that he feels unworthy of her and begs her to make him worthy of her. After she arrives, she tells him that she likes him. Lenina agrees with Fanny, so she takes some soma to bolster her courage and goes to visit John. Fanny, ever practical, tells Lenina she must either forget about John and sleep with other men or take the initiative and go directly to John's room. Later, Lenina discusses her sole desire for John and no other man with Fanny. While he talks, Lenina becomes irritated and finally tells him to shut up. At one point Henry Foster tells Lenina that she appears sick and asks what is the matter. Lenina's crush on John the Savage becomes increasingly uncontrollable for her.
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