Ever since John learned that he and his mother could go back to London, he kept saying "Brave new world, O brave new world" (page 216). My guess is that this is the reason why the book is called like that. John was so excited to leave this damned place where he would constantly get bullied and have a new, fresh start. He had heard so much about London and how wonderful it is from his mother, he was so happy that he might be able to go there. Of course, that was before he learned about all the bad things in this "brave new world".
The communism, the movies where the audience could feel everything, the polygamy, the soma (presumably drugs or alcohol)... all of it was too much for poor John to take. He wouldn't take the soma, said that it took away people's freedom. He even threw boxes of it out the window. Said it was to free the people. Of course that got him caught. The title "Brave New World" is actually very ironic. This world isn't brave at all, it is cowardly! Just take a look at Lenina, who is afraid of thunder, and who leeches in disgust when she was at the reserve! Everything is done in this society so that one never feels scared, or sad, or angry, but instead always joyful and happy and so on... But by protecting all these people from these dreaded feelings, it makes them more weak and vulnerable to them. If they ever have to coop with them later on, they won't know how, and it will kill them. It isn't a brave world, far from it. It is a world where people don't have to be brave because everything is done for them.
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