![]() ![]() The reader sees that Lenina is open about her personal life and that talking about such things in crowded places are not out of the ordinary. This scene is key for developing both characters. However this is normal for Lenina and she finds Bernard’s embarrassment amusing. This public display of sexual desire embarrasses Bernard. On the elevator full of coworkers Lenina tells Bernard that she decided that she would like to go to the savage reservation with Bernard, if he would still like to have sex with her. At the hatchery, where both Lenina and Bernard work, Lenina gets onto the same crowded elevator as Bernard. In chapter four the literary device of characterization is used to further the development of Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne. soma chapter 17 amit Mustapha Mond religion metaphor literary device lit device It is Christianity without Tears, Religion without Prayer, Happiness without Effort. Soma is a more perfect religion where a pill takes over for faith and nothing is asked from man. Religion does the same thing to people it eases their pain with illusions and false realities but the only difference is that it requires tears and sin and forgiveness. It is a drug as is Christianity Huxley therefore asserts. As soon as one takes Soma he forgets any unhappiness he may have. Soma is happiness and salvation and bliss without any cost. The true reason for eliminating religion is because it unites people and just like with the elimination for relationships and family the reasoning behind it is to have devotion solely to the state. Mond states, “But people are never alone now… we make them hate solitude and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it”. However, without loss, suffering, and solitude there is no need for God. ![]() He believes that without religion people are inhuman and when they are alone and on their death beds only God can give people hope. The reasoning behind the metaphor is that John asserts that religion and God give man hope and salvation as well as happiness. Mustapha mond uses the metaphor Christianity without tears to describe soma, the state supplied drug which puts citizens into a blissful and unaware state. The literary device for chapter 17 is metaphor. ![]() ![]() “Christianity without tears–that’s what soma is.” ![]()
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