Brave New World Chapter 8 Notes

“Popé used to come often. He said the stuff in the gourd was called mescal;”

An Indian woman name Popé comes to Linda’s house and gives her a drug called mescal.

“One of the women was holding her wrists. Another was lying across her legs, so that she couldn't kick. The third was hitting her with a whip. Once, twice, three times;”

The women whipped Linda because they were about her sleeping with their men.

“"I don't know. How should I know?" It was difficult to hear what she said, because she was lying on her stomach and her face was in the pillow. "They say those men are their men," she went on;”

Linda didn’t understand why the women keep saying about “their men”.

“Nay, but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty …”

This is in illusion.

“In the Other Place, she told him, people threw away clothes with holes in them and got new ones. "Rags, rags!" the boys used to shout at him. "But I can read," he said to himself, "and they can't. They don't even know what reading is." It was fairly easy, if he thought hard enough about the reading, to pretend that he didn't mind when they made fun of him. He asked Linda to give him the book again.”

John’s mom tells him stories about outside of the reservation which is the Other Place.

“He picked it up, looked at the title-page: the book was called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.”

John find a book by Shakespeare, and Popé was the one who brought it.

"They are married.. all I can say is, it does seem a lot of fuss to make about so little. In civilized countries, when a boy wants to have a girl, he just … But where are you going, John?"

A girl John loved from afar marries an Indian brave... John is forced to stay out of a ceremony to induct boys into adulthood.

“The words awoke a plaintive echo in Bernard's mind. Alone, alone …”

John and Bernard are both feeling lonely.

"Of course; if I can get permission, that is."
"Linda too?"
"Well …" He hesitated doubtfully. That revolting creature! No, it was impossible. Unless, unless … It suddenly occurred to Bernard that her very revoltingness might prove an enormous asset. "But of course!" he cried, making up for his first hesitations with an excess of noisy cordiality.

Bernard promises to take John back to the World State if he can get permission. Realizing that Linda will discredit the Director, Bernard agrees to take her too.

“His voice faltered. "O brave new world," he began”

This quote is from Shakespeare.