"But it's all different here. It's like living with lunatics. Everything they do is mad." (pg. 121)
Linda's description of the savages is similiar to what I believe a member of our AP Literature class would say after a visit to the "Brave New World". It is impossible to think of the world Linda came from as normal; everything about it seems backwards and foreign to me. The attitude towards sex, the lack of individual thought (especially the hypnopaedia), the stunting of embryos, the lack of parents and spouses, all have me struggling to wrap my mind around such a world. In fact, I'll bring back the same word again; they have me disturbed. Linda and Lenina's reaction to the savages is close-minded and repulsed; however, it is what they have been "conditioned" to think. I want to shake them, scream at them that their world is very messed up as well. However, I understand that the Indians must seem very uncivilized to them. The Indians don't seem much more civilized than the Native Americans that settlers encountered in America in the 16th-19th centuries, which suprised me. I expected them to use electricity, to be clean and happy, but to simply have a "normal" family and government. As it is, nothing in Brave New World is what I expect, so I may as well get used to it.
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