Brave New World Chapter 12

"But the Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury is there to-night." Bernard was almost in tears.”

“In the end Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms and inform the impatient assembly that the Savage would not be appearing that evening. The news was received with indignation. The men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions. The higher their position in the hierarchy, the deeper their resentment.”

This is when Bernard decides to create a meeting, or party for guests meeting John as known as Savage because he doesn’t want to disappoint them from meeting him at Arch-Community-Songster.

"Mend your ways, my young friend, mend your ways." He made the sign of the T over him and turned away.”

A friend of Bernard was giving him a warning about someone.

"I shall be seeing him, talking to him, telling him" (for she had come with her mind made up) "that I like him–more than anybody I've ever known. And then perhaps he'll say …" What would he say? The blood had rushed to her cheeks. "Why was he so strange the other night, after the feelies? So queer. And yet I'm absolutely sure he really does rather like me. I'm sure …"

In this quote, I think that Lenina is thinking about another person besides herself. Lenina is thinking about John from why he isn’t doing anything to her. I think she actually wants to be loved from him.

“Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent Passion Surrogate treatment–a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea. Her heart seemed to stop beating.

"Perhaps it's because he doesn't like me," she said to herself. And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn't like her. He didn't like her. …”

Lenina was starting to have negativity about her feelings about John because she feels like that she getting love from him.

“Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.”

Another Romeo and Juliet part about love and relationship between John and Lenina.

“Lenina and the Arch-Community-Songster stepped out on to the roof of Lambeth Palace. "Hurry up, my young friend–I mean, Lenina," called the Arch-Songster impatiently from the lift gates. Lenina, who had lingered for a moment to look at the moon, dropped her eyes and came hurrying across the roof to rejoin him.”

This is when Lenina is starting to have a heartbreak from John so she decides to leave with Songster.

"A New Theory of Biology" was the title of the paper which Mustapha Mond had just finished reading. He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: "The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive. Not to be published." He underlined the words. "The author will be kept under supervision. His transference to the Marine Biological Station of St. Helena may become necessary." A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work.”

Mustapha Mond wanted to create a story about John about how he became a excellent creation their world.

"Oh! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear …"

I think in this quote that John thinks that Lenina is a beautiful angel that he sees towards the light.

“Bernard's other victim-friend was Helmholtz. When, discomfited, he came and asked once more for the friendship which, in his prosperity, he had not thought it worth his while to preserve. Helmholtz gave it; and gave it without a reproach, without a comment, as though he had forgotten that there had ever been a quarrel. Touched, Bernard felt himself at the same time humiliated by this magnanimity–a magnanimity the more extraordinary and therefore the more humiliating in that it owed nothing to soma and everything to Helmholtz's character.”

Helmholtz accepted Bernard apology, but Bernard felt humiliated just like when Linda accept the Director apology by being John’s father.

"But what were your rhymes?" Bernard asked.
"They were about being alone."
Bernard's eyebrows went up.
"I'll recite them to you, if you like."

Helmholtz decides to write a poem about being alone.

“Helmholtz had been restless throughout the entire scene; but when, pathetically mimed by the Savage, Juliet cried out:
"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away:
Delay this marriage for a month, a week;
Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies …"
when Juliet said this, Helmholtz broke out in an explosion of uncontrollable guffawing.”

Helmholtz and the Savage like each other immensely, and Helmholtz is mesmerized by Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, however, makes Helmholtz laugh. The entire plot strikes him as ridiculous.

"I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else.

Helmholtz realizes that what he needs are exactly these "ridiculous, mad situations" to make his own writing more powerful.