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Shakespeare Chapter 11 Summary
Chapter 11.

After Johns vomits from the disgust of viewing hundreds of identical twins in the Factory where the Bockanovsky process is put into practise, he goes on to find that the State's library does not have Shakespeare. After John and Lenina go to a feely movie together, the night comes to end and John drops Lenina off at her house without having sex with her. This leaves her bewildered and lacking confidence. She deals with the situation by taking soma, and john releases all of his passion and emotion by reading Shakespeare. These actions are similar because both are methods of escape. For John, the raw and passionate emotions in Shakespeare help him to understand himself and his world, and for Lenina, soma allows her to pacify

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