I didn't enjoy the ending of BNW because it really didn't wrap the story up. I didn't like how the author decided to make John majorly depressive and hang himself in a few pages. It looked like the Huxley just needed a tragic ending so he put those pages in to fill space. The story was coming together, but I still don't understand why Huxley incorporated this ending. My reason behind that being that John was totally calm and understanding when speaking with Mustapha Mond, and was really depressed at all. John just wanted to go back to the uncivilized home that he was comfortable with. Instead he goes to an island where he becomes depressed and angry.
I also didn't understand how he was taking a lot of soma and whipping himself and Lenina, I don't understand how that relates with anything at all because I thought soma was supposed to make u feel better. The last few chapters, I think, really threw off the whole story in the sense that it was finally making sense.
Paul Morrison
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John actually ends up living at a lighthouse on the sea that had been abandoned. He's not actually on a real island, but you could think of it as an island because there's nothing around him for miles and miles except fields and meadows. Here's my view on Huxley's chosen ending: Huxley part way through the book turned from Bernard and Lenina and Mustapha being the main characters to John being the main character. Most of what we see once we meet John involves him in some way, shape, or form. That is why we see Bernard and Helmholtz exiled to an island, and Lenina and Mustapha put into a secondary view. Linda dies so all Huxley really has left to talk about is John...thus the ending as it happens.
i felt like huxley wanted to show that the society took over johns mind, in some way. he was trying to purge himself of everything by whipping himself and also trying to be alone at the lighthouse. i didn't understand why he took soma if he saw what mescal and soma did to linda. I just thoguht that john couldnt handle the society and thats why he killed himself.
i really didn't like the ending. i was so pumped for a dramatic...archetypal (sp?) ending, but...nothing.
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