More Simmilarities!

"Alone, always alone," the young man was saying.  The words awoke a plaintive echo in Bernard's mind. - Brave New World, page 137.

Wow!  There are so many simmilarities I am finding between the people in this novel!  Although Lenina and Linda seem to be mirror images of eachother, Bernard and John are definitely not.  They are merely similar in the obstacles they face as well as the feelings they have.  Bernard and John both express their feelings of being alone.  They both feel as though they don't fit in, mostly as a cause of how they look and appear.  It will be interesting to see how the two act in the rest of the novel.  We will see how similar they truly are.

Something else I found interesting in this chapter was John's reaction to and association with the reality of sex.  Early on in life, John has associated sex with the absense of his mother, fear, humiliation, and of course, the reason behind the beating of him and his mother by the other women of the Reservation.  He has learned to find sex repulsive, despite his attraction to Lenina.  Huxley is demonstrating that all people are prone to powerful suggestion.  It does not matter whether one is tagged as "civilized" or "uncivilized," certain things can condition one to behave in certain ways starting very early on.