The+Savage+Has+An+Outbreak

What function does this scene perform? What is it doing?
 * Describes the Savage trying to leave the hospital but unfortunately ends up in a crowd of 162 Delta workers just off duty
 * Introduces a minor character, the Deputy Sub-Bursar, who serves staff their //soma// rations after their shift
 * Shows how passion consumes the Savage and makes him blind to the severity of his actions
 * Explains the Savage’s realization and disgust that the hospital workers are in large, genetically identical groups
 * Shows the sudden shift of focus from the Savage to the box of soma that has just arrived
 * Makes John realize that Linda is a slave of //soma//
 * Describes the power of this drug and the desire everyone has for it
 * Shows the Savage analyzing the distribution of //soma// and hearing the line “O brave new world!” repeated again and again
 * He has an epiphany that it is up to him to make the world beautiful
 * Describes the Savage yelling “Stop!” and disrupting the distribution of //soma//
 * Explains the Deputy Sub-Bursar’s fear of the Savage as he tries to calm him down
 * The Savage starts on his desperate speech to change the minds of the Delta’s, calling the //soma// “poison”
 * Deputy Sub-Bursar leaves the room to look up a number in the phone book
 * Puts John, Hemholtz, and Benard in the custody of the police, preparing them for an audience with Mustapha Mond

Why has it been written?
 * It shows the reader that this is a very climactic part of the novel
 * Shows the desperation of John and his attempt to restore the world
 * This scene was written to show John’s outbreak in the Hospital after he experienced his mother’s death
 * Show that the workers were “slaves”
 * Struggle that John has against happiness in the World State

How is its construction conducive to its function and purpose?
 * Repeats the line, “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world…” to show mockery because John has very negative feelings about this world right now
 * Analogy to //The Tempest// written by Shakespeare
 * John yelling at the Deltas because they do not mind being slaves