CHAPTER 18

CHARACTERS IN THE CHAPTER : the principal characters in this charter are the Savage, Helmholtz and Bernard Marx. The Savage is the protagonist and around it there are people of the new world (that want to see it for its strange life mode) and two journalists: one Primo Mellon that wasn’t a very good journalist and Darwin Bonaparte one of the photographers of the Feely Corporation. The first journalist didn’t made any work instead Bonaparte made a film a feely film for the people on the Savage’s life.

SHORT REPORT: The Savage decided to go in a old lighthouse between the hill of Puttenham and Elstead . He tried to live only using his human forces and so he became a sort of little agriculture man . He like the wood ,the clumps of Scotch firs and the nature around it, because he wanted to be free and very far from the civilization. A day during he was springing itself some Deltas watched it and so arrived two journalists and after the vision of the film all the people arrived in the lighthouse and after an Orgy-porgy in which the Savage was stupefied by soma he killed itself  in the moment he remembered the immoral actions in which he was involved.

THEMES PRESENTED: The principal aspect in the chapter is the theme of the conquered of freedom . In fact the Savage going out of civilization try to go in hermitage  to conquer  moral freedom and autonomy from the society of the new world . But one person cannot conquer freedom in a society in which only a person wants to be free because other people wanted to conquer their one. So all the people in the book killed the Savage killing his freedom.

SOME RELEVANT QUOTATIONS: There are quotations taken from Shakespeare and used by the Savage like : “Fry, lechery, Fry”, referred to a beautiful girl taken from Troilus and Cressida , or “ Besides , thy best of rest is sleep and that thou oft provok’st; yet grossly fear’st thy death wich’s no more” referred to the death that is like a long sleep, (Shakespeare Hamlet III).

OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE STYLE: The writer uses a simple language and makes a long description of the nature around the lighthouse of the Savage. So using them he slowed the rhythm of the narration. I think he uses that because he wants to make a description to realize the real emotions of the Savage when he was a free man and what means for the Savage to be a free man. We can understand the sense of freedom just reading the description of the nature that is free, so the images give us the image of freedom.

WHAT THE CHAPTER REPRESENT IN THE WHOLE STORY: The 18^th chapter is the ending part of the book, so he represents the final solution of the Savage story.

PERSONAL COMMENTS: I think that the writer makes a critic to the new world but when he say, referred to the Savage , “ that’ll teach them he thought vindictively . It would also teach him” he criticized also the Savage. In my opinion the Savage and the people of the book BNW represent two manner of life but I think that they are wrong because one is a very free moral and one is similar to the middle ages one( the Savage sprang itself and the girl etc…). In the end of the book the death represent in my opinion the only solution to the story, but I think that the death isn’t a great ending for the book. I think that every man have to conquer what it likes . However in the book death seems to be the only solution because in a war between one man and the world the destiny of the first one that represent the minority is lost.

BY DIEGO & SEBASTIAN