John feels that humans should have a basic right to religion or to feel that there is a God. “It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone – quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…” (Huxley 235). When John was growing up on the Savage Reservation, they believed in God. Religion is not allowed in the World State. Citizens in the World State are also conditioned to hate solitude. “We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it” (Huxley 235). At the end of their conversation, John decides that he does not want to continue to be an experiment. “I’m damned if I’ll go on being experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the World. I shall go away to-morrow too” (Huxley 243). John knows that he can find value in his life by believing in God, so he leaves to isolate himself at the abandoned
John feels that humans should have a basic right to religion or to feel that there is a God. “It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone – quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…” (Huxley 235). When John was growing up on the Savage Reservation, they believed in God. Religion is not allowed in the World State. Citizens in the World State are also conditioned to hate solitude. “We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it” (Huxley 235). At the end of their conversation, John decides that he does not want to continue to be an experiment. “I’m damned if I’ll go on being experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the World. I shall go away to-morrow too” (Huxley 243). John knows that he can find value in his life by believing in God, so he leaves to isolate himself at the abandoned