How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Part.Paragraph)
Quote #19
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… (12.23-4)
It is unclear whether Lenina's suffers here because she can't have John, or because she actually has genuine feelings for him. Your thoughts?
Quote #20
But in spite of this knowledge and these admissions, in spite of the fact that his friend's support and sympathy were now his only comfort, Bernard continued perversely to nourish, along with his quite genuine affection, a secret grievance against the Savage, to mediate a campaign of small revenges to be wreaked upon him. […] As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. (12.48)
This is a particularly odd passage in the text. At first it sounds like foreshadowing—we start waiting for the moment Bernard will exact his revenge on John. But it soon becomes clear that, actually, that's not going to happen. Bernard ends up dropping off the face of the earth and John, who's way keen on inflicting suffering on himself, doesn't really need to suffer on behalf of anybody else.
Quote #21
"Then why on earth didn't you say so?" she cried, and so intense was her exasperation that she drove her sharp nails into the skin of his wrist. "Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for weeks and weeks." (13.66)
This is a key moment in the sex-violence connection in Brave New World. Lenina, in her passion for John, hurts him physically—a lot like the scene at the end of the novel. Check out "Symbols, Imagery, Allegory" for more.