Why won't John have Lenina?
John is in love with Lenina. Lenina is in love with John. Lenina keeps giving him all the signs abut John keeps pushing her away. Why? "Dide he dare? Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that ... No, he didn't... How beautiful she was! How beautiful!" (pg 153). John will not Lenina how he feels because he feels he is unworthy to blessed with an intimate relationship with a woman so beautiful. He pushes her away because he thinks it will be too dangerous for him to express his emotions towards her.
Why doesn't Mustapha Mond want the higher castes to believe in a "goal somewhere beyond"?
If the higher castes believe that the goal of the society is "somewhere beyond" then they will "lose faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good." (pg183). The World Controllers can control happiness and mkae everyone "feel" happy. But if the people start thinking byond happiness the World Controllers cannot control that and so the society starts to crumble. Which is why the director wanted to send Bernard to Iceland because he was an "outsider" and his unorthodoxy, unhappiness, could've started rubbing off on others causing a ripple effect, hence collapsing the society. "That the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness... Whuch was, the Controller reflected, quite possible true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible" (pg 183).
Why do the people want to see John, The Savage, so much?
"It was John, then, that they were all after" (pg 162). All the people wanted to see John so much because he was an actual sexually reproduced organism of two people from their society. It amazes them to see this "Savage" because he shouldn't be alive since Linda took the precautions as for this exact thing to not happen. Since he had been living with the "savages" all his life this was the closet these people were going to one, unless they went out to the reservation. Jown was a wonder to the people and that is why they wanted to see him so much.
Start off your answers with a claim, then bring in your quote and explain it. Repeating this process will help you out in your on demand scores as well, as you tend to assume the audience knows/thinks certain things.
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