What is John’s reaction to the hatchery and the Bokanovsky twins?

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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What is John the Savage’s reaction to the sight of work being done by single Bokanovsky groups?

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DAVID MORRISON eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR

John's reaction is extreme, to say the least: he throws up. This is the culmination of John's gradual disillusionment with life in the World State. John is literally sickened by the sight of the Delta workers performing their mindless, dehumanizing work. There's something inhumane about the condition to which the workers have been reduced. John understands freedom as an essential component of what makes us human. In acquiescing to their own slavery, the workers are giving the state tacit permission to continue treating them as sub-human. This angers and frustrates John in equal measure; his elevated levels of

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