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takes an overdosis and dies, right in John’s presence. In the hospital John is enraged by the lack of humanity, for they show ‘their children’ the dead, to prepare them for their own death, that it wasn’t a bad thing… John shows that day’s visitors otherwise. John starts a mutiny among the workers about their weekly amount of soma, but the crowd cools down when becomes clear that they won’t get any if they don’t stop. He is arrested and led before the great Mustapha Mond, who explaineds to John, in the presence of Bernard and Helmholtz Watson (Bernard’s friend and the only one who understood John), on which basis society rests. Stability is the pillar, and all threats (as arts, beauty and religion) have to be abolished. The communal happiness has to carefully be

preserved, even science is a threat… John doesn’t agree and sais he has the right to grow ugly, old and become ill. Mustapha lets him go. John leaves London, to pick up his old way of life again, outside London in the country. But people come to visit him, to view him and talk about him as a weird specimen. Reporters and sensation seekers don’t leave hime alone and keep pestering him. To forget about his beloved Lenina he whips himself with a strong twig, but when she comes to visit him too, he gets so enraged that he whips HER to death. After that he hangs himself… - The End -