Old Vs. New

"The sun was already high when he woke. He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered-everything." pg 259

John's death symbolizes that this new world cannot ever have old beliefs. Whenever old ideas resurface, they are thrown out...and when John's traditional notions are mixed within these new utopian ideas, he cannot take the culture shock, and he commits suicide. I find the whole ordeal to be really sad, because if John had not left the Reservation in the first place, he would not have come into this world where there is no such thing as true morals and wanted to kill himself. He would just be back at the Reservation, with Linda, who would possibly still be alive at this point, having not been drugged to death by soma. This whole situation is really Bernard's fault, since he was the one to go to New Mexico and bring the savages back. Anyway, in this last chapter of the book, John tried to escape "the filth of civilized life," and find some solitude. Unfortunately, he was bombarded by newscasters, and he could not take their constant invasions. He wanted to get away from The Other World, but it just kept coming back. He could not take the pain he was experiencing, from remembering Linda's death, to the twisted ideals of the utopia, and the thoughts of Lenina's seducing him, so he killed himself. Old beliefs don't last in this place. Ending is better than mending...