But it gets really interesting in Chapter Eighteen, when the crowds come swarming to see John standing around whipping himself for having dirty thoughts.
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In this way, the people of the World State are like pets – not like free people. While John is disgusted by the bestial nature of the new world's promiscuity, he misses the purpose behind it: animals are tame. Also, Mustapha's response to John's comment – "Nice tame animals, anyhow," is brilliant (on the part of Huxley, not on the part of Mustapha). John even quotes the "goats and monkeys" line from Othello, delivered when the hero imagines his wife copulating with another man the way that animals do.
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Animalistic traits really come into play when it comes to sex, probably because that's one of the basest, most universal instincts.
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The irony is that "civilization" should seek to elevate man, to make him less primitive, to put some distance between him and the other creatures of the world. There's the repetition of "straight from the horse's mouth," Foster's implicit claim that "any cow" could merely hatch out embryos, the platitude that "Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs." Later, when John goes to the hospital, he sees the Delta children staring at Linda with "the stupid curiosity of animals." The hordes of identical bokanovskified twins seem to him "maggots." It looks like Huxley's message is clear: the new world has so dehumanized its citizens that they now resemble little more than animals. Animal imagery is rampant in Brave New World.