Lenina watches some sort of celebration for the community, but when a cross with the images of a man and eagle she soon realizes she's watching a sacrifice. Lenina and Bernard meet an Indian boy named John who wanted to be the sacrifice Lenina watched. John tells them about his mom who had got hurt while visiting from the Other Place. She had John on accident because something went wrong with her contraceptives and couldn't get an abortion because she was on the Reservation. She felt guilty and slept with whomever she pleased.
In the beginning of chapter 8, Bernard asks John to explain his life because nothing seemed to make sense to him, "' As though we were living on different planets, in different centuries. A mother, and all this dirt, and gods, and old age, and disease …' He shook his head. 'It's almost inconceivable. I shall never understand, unless you explain.'" Linda could care less about a relationship and it tears apart other relationships on the Reservation because she sleeps with so many other men. John realizes she's up to no good when the other women start pushing Linda away. When Linda and John get back, Popé is waiting for them with mescal for Linda. John hates Popé so he attempts to kill him while he's sleeping with Linda and all Popé does is credit his bravery. When Huxley uses the Shakespeare allusions in chapter 8, it gives us sort of clarification on how people in Brave New World act similarly to those in Hamlet because Hamlet and John both feel bet...
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