Brave New World / Aldous Huxley / chapter 16

“And it’s what you never will write,” said the controller. “Because, if it were really like
Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if it were new, it couldn’t possibly be like Othello.” (Huxley 220).  He people of this society do not know what they are missing.  You cannot introduce them to it either because they are trained to not understand.  Most every person is to dumb to understand what john would try to tell them.  They are also conditioned to not find anything similar to what john would like to be normal or accepted.  Helmholtz even does not fully understand what John was trying to tell him. The islands which Bernard was so afraid of being sent to, are actually places were he would have been happier living that if he would have stated in London.  It is interesting that he brought back John as a way to save himself from leaving but in the end he still is going to and island. It is interesting how much the controller actually understands about what they are doing but also still accepts it.  They are sacrificing full lives for the ability to be happy all the time.  Without ever really knowing what they have done.