Theme Of Christianity In Brave New World

In Brave New World, there are subtle references to Christianity through symbols, quotes, and parallels. We see this towards the beginning of the book, where a spiritual ritual takes place during a Solidarity Service. What occurred during the Solidarity Service parallels Christian practices during church services. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley alludes to the Holy Trinity and Christianity to build depth and importance in the reasoning behind John’s suicide. In chapter five part two, Bernard attends a Solidarity Service where there is the sign of the T, soma tablets, the loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma, and hymns that allude to the Holy Trinity. The sign of the T is parallel to the symbol of the cross, then eating soma tablets and

In the real world, people seek out God and the Christian religion to find comfort and peace during hard times, and soma in the World State acts as a device to achieve a state of peacefulness. The final part of the allusion is the hymn that states “Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating Twelve-in-One!” (Huxley, 81). “Annihilating Twelve-in-One” is like the Holy Trinity from the Christian Bible, which contains the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Twelve-in-One and the Holy Trinity are alike because, in both instances, they are taking a certain number of distinct, separate beings and merging them into one. This process of merging into one and taking part in an orgy porgy makes the citizens feel that they are closer to the “Greater Being”, which is Ford, who is their version of God. The services and orgy porgies are enforced by the World State to unite the citizens and make them more conditioned to what the World State wants them to believe. When Bernard introduces John to the World State, he is shown the dystopian and modern ways of their

‘If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite’ “ (Huxley 191). Lenina rejects this due to her belief of “Everyone belongs to everyone else” (Huxley 43), and takes her clothes off in an attempt to seduce John. John’s reaction is to hit her and call her an “Impudent strumpet,” (Huxley 196). In this intense interaction with Lenina, it becomes clear that John has some Christian beliefs based on purity and holiness due to his word choice. When angry with the people of the society because of their immoral beliefs, John escapes to a lighthouse outside of the city. John says that his purpose in leaving “... was to escape further contamination by the filth of civilized life; it was to be purified and made good; it was actively to make amends” (Huxley 247). In the lighthouse, John yells “Forgive me, God. I’m bad. I’m wicked.” (Huxley 252), after trying to be pure again by whipping himself as a form of penance. After John was discovered to be doing this, it drew a massive crowd of people who wanted John to put on a show for