If Linda and Lenina are the most serious rebels of the New World, why, then, are Bernard and Helmholtz exiled, but not Lenina or Linda?
Without being able to agree with the premise of the question, there is no substantiation that can be provided other than Lenina's somewhat rebellious behavior regarding the "everyone belongs to everyone else" credo. She prefers having only one boyfriend at a time, such as Bernard, then John; but, she is not above quickly baring herself for someone to whom she is attracted. And, while her identity at the end of the book is not overtly stated, she seems to be the girl sent to seduce John in his exile. As such, Lenina acts, not rebelliously, but in compliance to Henry Foster, who deserts her to her fate as she is sent by helicopter to where John is exiled. Lenina is a character who is used; even in the beginning of the novel she says that the men find her "pneumatic"; in Lenina's case it means like a balloon, bouncy, suggesting the feel of her bosom. And, since two-thirds of the women are sterilized, there seems little purpose to women in Brave New World.
When she is returned to the New World, about which she has nostalgically told her son, Linda willingly subjects herself to soma and makes no attempts at existential acts, such as John, her son, does.
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