"The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, the twilight of his own habitual stupor" (chp 4) This character is compared to the darkness of the well, inferring that his soul is empty. And than here: "and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood" (chp 10). On the dictionary.com I found that crimson means dark red and sanguinary.
Sanguinary: full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody:
ready or eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
It is interesting Huxley chooses to describe the room in which humans are created as a bloodshed room. It could mean that the passion, flesh, real substance of humans is being lost because the babies are scientifically maid. His diction has connotations of negativity. Such as poisoned and darkness.
Setting: John learns in the World State that his home is: "savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing" (chp 11).
When Bernard and Lenina had gotten there, it was described as "THE MESA was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust. The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green-the river and its fields. On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais. Block above block, each story smaller than the one below, the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky. At their feet lay a straggle of low buildings, a criss-cross of walls; and on three sides the precipices fell sheer into the plain. A few columns of smoke mounted perpendicularly into the windless air and were lost."
In the second description, it seems like a peaceful valley still raw with nature. Nature is lacking in the World State. There is too much technology. While in contrast, the World State's description depicts it as an awful place to be.
Language: Many of the characters speak robotic-ally because of their conditioning. "A gramme is better than a damn," said Lenina mechanically from behind her hands. "I wish I had my soma!" (Chp 7). They use sophisticated, unorthodox language. It demonstrates how the people in the society think. Comparable is John the Savage, although he speaks poetically it is still a repetition of what he has read, Shakespeare.
"Then suddenly he found himself reflecting that he had only to take hold of the zipper at her neck and give one long, strong pull … He shut his eyes, he shook his head with the gesture of a dog shaking its ears as it emerges from the water. Detestable thought! He was ashamed of himself. Pure and vestal modesty " (chp 9).
In the quote above, we see how language has affected the way John thinks. His words are elegant and passionate, and that's how he wants his life to be.
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