The Age of Anti-Shakespeare

It seems as if John might be out of place.

He's the only son of both a new worlder and a savage.
The only savage educated on the subject of decanting.
And the only man on the earth reading Shakespeare.

So... as John is quite excluded from most of any society he'd like to blend in with, he is quite eager to tell Bernard his life story from birth to present. He tells about how his mom was what the savages might call a whore. And about how his mom taught him to read. And even about how he was neglected by the other boys for his entire young life. His mother... *gasp*, yes, mother couldn't exactly deal with having the shame that was him. Guilty for her never being able to return, John remains an outcast in his own house. Bernard even gets a useful tip from John passed down to him by his new-world native mother: Mescal is most definitely not soma.

Not all bad things were happening to John in the reservation, however. His depressed mother had quickly taken to her shameful son, as John recalls. She taught him to read by marking letters in the dirt and later, he became well versed on the subject of The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers. Because in the new world, all literature is only for the purpose of instruction. In the overlap between the savage reservation and new world, the dilemma becomes obvious. When little John asks Linda about where the chemicals come from, her answer is quick and definite: the chemical store.

So it's simple:
Either the savages think too much.
Or the New-World doesn't think at all.

ANYWAYS, Bernard devises a wonderful plan for young John and his very, very old mother (by new-world standards at least.) Bernard and Lenina will bring back John to the new-world as the very first savage to be integrated into the new way of living. His mother will be able to get her first dose of soma in years, and get back to the life she misses. And all of this might just make Bernard more of an alpha-plus than he'd ever been before...

But, all of this will have to wait.
After all, this had never been done before.

Conclusion: Both sides could think about nothing but Shakespeare. Hopefully it would solve a problem or two.