"The remedy was to make the holiday continuous. Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses" (Brave New World, 154).
In chapters eleven and twelve, I found two examples of what I think could be foreshadowing. This first quote refers to Linda overdosing on soma, which I feel is probably going to end her. Being super greedy usually does not end well. Huxley probably wants to convey that instant gratification is dangerous. That's why I'm reading this book instead of playing Tetris!
"'No,' he concluded, with a sigh, 'it won't do. We need some other kind of madness and violence. But what? What? Where can we find it?'" (185).
If I had to guess, Helmholtz, we can probably find it within the next few chapters. Helmholtz and John are compatible because they both believe in the power of words, which I'll talk about more in my next post. To form beautiful words, though, something out of the ordinary has to happen. I think Huxley is trying to get me excited for the climax, and it's sort of working, but in all honesty, I'm more excited for this whole thing to be over.
Heeeeey. ^ I did that. Sort of.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard not to play Tetris.
When I first read your predictions about Linda, I was thinking in my head of Lenina, and I started thinking about it and thought that would be interesting. I'm not sure where the plot would take us from there, though.