GNED 1401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ritual Purification
6 Feb 2020
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He is showing concern for an individual, his mother, in a society where the individual is insignificant. He sees it as a drug that enslaves the people and is harmful to them, prevents people from thinking for themselves. He means that he wants his life to be filled with the full range of human passions, desires and emotions. He wants love and happiness but also the loss and uncertainty that can accompany them. He is tortured within with grief for his mother and anger at the society that comes to gawk at him. He wants the pain to drive his desire for lenina out of him.
