Rationale
I wrote a letter from John to Lenina, from Brave New World, where he explains the reasons of his suicide and ask her to wake up and see the world in a different and more human way. It is written with a nostalgic informal tone and it is directed to an audience of all-ages, but especially school students.
In my letter, I used informal language in first person that had a nostalgic, almost desperate tone, in which I wanted to show the struggle that John had inside of him applying phrases like “Am I sinning for wanting more than I deserve?” and “And it's wrong, and it's fine, and I'm going crazy.”. I also tried to use an easy to understand language in order to transmit easily the message of the letter, words like “belong” and “pain”. …show more content…
Sometimes I think I deserve this. I deserve to be disgusted by this. And sometimes I wished I could be more like you and the others; I would like to be able to ignore everything and just take some soma, and forget.
But then I remember how happy the pain makes me. Because, Lenina, it is the pain that makes us see the world happier.
Romeo, Othello, Hamlet... They made the same decision. This is the only way out, Lenina. And it hurts me so much the fact that I cannot show you the way I see the world. It hurts me not to be able to get you out of this place, where you live locked up without knowing it.
I wish I could introduce you to God, and Shakespeare and pain. I would like you to know the concept of chastity, motherhood, love. I would like, Lenina, that you see me the way I saw you when I met you.
And I think about you, Lenina, always. In every way, right and wrong. And it's wrong, and it's fine, and I'm going crazy. And I always pray for you, Lenina. To Jesus, to Pookong, to all the gods I know and whom I do not know.
I wish I could have been your Romeo. I wish you had been my Juliet. I wish things had been different... Am I sinning for wanting more than I
I wrote a letter from John to Lenina, from Brave New World, where he explains the reasons of his suicide and ask her to wake up and see the world in a different and more human way. It is written with a nostalgic informal tone and it is directed to an audience of all-ages, but especially school students.
In my letter, I used informal language in first person that had a nostalgic, almost desperate tone, in which I wanted to show the struggle that John had inside of him applying phrases like “Am I sinning for wanting more than I deserve?” and “And it's wrong, and it's fine, and I'm going crazy.”. I also tried to use an easy to understand language in order to transmit easily the message of the letter, words like “belong” and “pain”. …show more content…
Sometimes I think I deserve this. I deserve to be disgusted by this. And sometimes I wished I could be more like you and the others; I would like to be able to ignore everything and just take some soma, and forget.
But then I remember how happy the pain makes me. Because, Lenina, it is the pain that makes us see the world happier.
Romeo, Othello, Hamlet... They made the same decision. This is the only way out, Lenina. And it hurts me so much the fact that I cannot show you the way I see the world. It hurts me not to be able to get you out of this place, where you live locked up without knowing it.
I wish I could introduce you to God, and Shakespeare and pain. I would like you to know the concept of chastity, motherhood, love. I would like, Lenina, that you see me the way I saw you when I met you.
And I think about you, Lenina, always. In every way, right and wrong. And it's wrong, and it's fine, and I'm going crazy. And I always pray for you, Lenina. To Jesus, to Pookong, to all the gods I know and whom I do not know.
I wish I could have been your Romeo. I wish you had been my Juliet. I wish things had been different... Am I sinning for wanting more than I