As the book ends with John's suicidal death, he faces many spectacular events that contains truth and happiness. The events that led to his death brought up the topic I had in class about truth and happiness. When someone faces a truth in reality, they begin to avoid that truth and seek opportunities of happiness. I believe John is no different than that society because he, in the end, seeks death to be happy. When he thinks about the past events about Linda, feelings for Lenina and also her perfume, he begins to harm himself so that he can avoid the truth of what has happened. Usually when that society has gone into depression, they would always take an amount of soma. But since John did not believe in soma and actually threw them out of the window, the only choice was to hit himself.
This book is awesome, but the end is just ridiculous. John thinks that the society that he lived in did not use soma to avoid depression and seek happiness, but he in the end did use soma and chose suicidal to escape the truth. I mean why would anyone be as crazy as him? You say your not like these people living in this horrible society and says "I ate civilization...It poisoned me". I just really think hes impulsive. A moron who tries to seek a better society, a society that fits him but when he knows that the other civilization is just as bad, he starts to go mad. I wonder if that's how Huxley portraits this society when he wrote the book. People just seek death when they know the truth of something and to seek happiness is death. So he created a society in Brave New World to take a drug that gets rid of depression and receive 100% happiness all day. Its like getting high. Overall, the book is good and it has a lot of meaning towards life and death. To able to predict the future during that time period was pretty amazing.
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