Brave New World
What, in the end, drives John to suicide?
Chapter 18
Chapter 18
John cannot live with having taken part in the orgy or the soma..... thus, he takes his own life.
Stupefied by soma, and exhausted by a long-drawn frenzy of sensuality, the Savage lay sleeping in the heather. The sun was already high when he awoke. He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered-everything. "Oh, my God, my God!" He covered his eyes with his hand.Brave New World