"The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust....the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky." p. 107
I have noticed throughout this novel that Huxley, like many great authors, draws comparisons that develop images that are extremely vivid and far from normal. In describing the Reservations, Huxley is trying to parallel the Ford World and the Reservations. Within this parallel, Huxley is able to contrast and show how far the two are apart. Calling the houses "amputated pyramids" and a "straggle of low buildings" employs a thought of a broken world in shambles. Maybe, in a way, Huxley is trying to say that, although very different, these two far-apart worlds are both in imperfect and fractured. Individuals must be sacrificed in both worlds for the better society. Later in this chapter, Huxley links the worlds in revealing the secret of John. In Bernard discovering who John and Linda are, he might be able to gain leverage on the Director to blackmail him into letting him stay.
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