Tuesday, January 12, 2016

What effect do the feelies have on John?

Like most things in the "civilized" world, the feelies
pretty much leave John the Savage feeling disgusted.  This is especially true of the
feelie he watches in Chapter 11 -- "Three Weeks in a
Helicopter."


To John, this feelie is (in his words) "base"
and "ignoble."  He thinks, basically, that the feelies are what we might call
pornographic.  John's atttitudes towards love and sex have come out of his reading of
Shakespeare.  So he sees women and love in a very romantic way.  To him, the promiscuous
attitudes of the people are repellant.  So, of course, is a feelie that is based on sex
and on the audience experiencing sexual feelings would be repellent as
well.

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