Brave New World Chapter 12

1. In what ways does Bernard remind you of Dr. Treves or the nightwatchman in The Elephant Man?
He reminds me of these other men because he is using John and putting him on display for his own benefit.

2. Why does John have to use Zuni to express how he feels?
This is because there are no words in the English language that could thoroughly express his anger.

3. Why does Lenina feel "a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea." (p. 174)?
She feels this way because she is beginning to realize how different John truly is and she is beginning to love him for it but she thinks he hates her.

4. Why doesn't Mustapaha Mond want "A New theory of Biology" not to be published? Does the work remind you of anything that we have studied recently?
He thinks its content could decondition some of the people in the higher classes because it has idea about what the Biology of humans is really about. This reminds me of when the book about Intelligent Design was trying to publish.

5. Do you agree with Bernard's belief in the "principal functions of a friend" as described on p. 179? Why does he feel this way toward John and Helmholtz?
I agree that a friend should be there for you even when you are too blinded by anger to think of how you are treating them, but I also think that if someone is treating their friend bad enough the friend has every right to walk away from the friendship. He feels this way because John and Helmholtz are his only true friends and they are the people who are receiving most of his aggression.

6. What does Helmholtz think of Shakespeare?
He thinks Shakespeare’s work is incredible and would make excellent propaganda, but he cannot help but find the situation of the characters to be humorous.