"O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once." PAGE 139
This section provided dramatic irony. John becomes excited when Bernard offers to let him go back with Lenina and himself. He thinks it will be much better than the way he lives now. He does not like being different than the other boys. He also does not like certain things about the culture he lives in that he has to deal with. The dramatic irony presents because the reader knows that the Other Place is not as good as John is anticipating. It is drastically different than what he is used to. The irony is effective in providing the reader with what John thinks the Other Place will be like and earlier information about what it really is like. The author immediately sets John up for disappointment unbeknownst to him. The reader knows that the Other Place does not have marriages and couples for long periods of time because everyone belongs to everyone. John, however, is looking forward to and hoping to be with Lenina, possibly through marriage. He has no idea that that is not how the Other Place does things.
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