Bernard organizes a party with many important people who all come to see the Savage, but John refuses to come out of his room, c

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Bernard organizes a party with many important people who all come to see the Savage, but John refuses to come out of his room, c

ursing at Bernard in Zuñi. Bernard is humiliated, and his guests leave early, including the Arch-Community-Songster, who leaves with Lenina. Why does John refuse to come out? Is he justified? Describe Lenina’s response to the news that the Savage won’t attend the party. How has meeting John changed her?

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lilavasa [31] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-10T08:29:46+03:00

Answer: Part of the reason why reality is so tangled up for john is that it carries a great burden. In one way or another, his character ends up representing Jesus, John the baptist, Othello, Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet and the compendium of the good savage (the good savage: a great concept of term that is heard a lot in the circles of literary criticism. The idea is that this man in his natural state, without having been contaminated by modernity and technology, is, in some way, purer and less corrupt than civilized man).