Individuality In Brave New World

John believed in self-flagellation to purify himself, which is one aspect of orthodox Christianity that he adapted. He stripped down to his waist and whipped himself until he was bleeding profusely. He also drank mustard and warm water, causing him to throw up. The elders of the Reservation believed that this was another way to purify a man. John felt that he needed to get away and purify himself from the contamination of the “civilized” life. He wanted to atone for his sins, which included all the things he saw or enjoyed in London, and he practiced a stricter self-discipline when he was alone at the lighthouse. The first time he hit himself with the whip was when he realized he was singing and too happy. He was disappointed with himself because he thought that he should have been remembering the horrors of civilization and trying to make amends within himself.

Soon enough Lucy wants more from John of being in there own house and living better. As John is away Lucy gets sick and eventually dies. John seems to think he need to find someone else to be with. He do not take any time of feeling sad about Lucy death. Even though the whole town is mad at him for being too quick about finding another wife he still does it. Show that John cannot be alone, he needs someone there with him as a guide. His new wife Hattie is just someone one he brought into his life, even though he knows she could never take Lucy place. John does whatever he wants, no matter what Hattie wants him to do or does not want him to do. John still has not matured because a responsible man and matured man do what they're supposed to do the right way. John seem to always want to be an a relationship but not really with someone he truly love. Hattie says “ Well if you do not want me you made lak yuh did.”(143). Showing he give signs that he need someone to be around him. Eventually John no longer want Hattie anymore and also hits her. He tries to be on his own for awhile to get his mind straight after all the drama and court dates with Hattie. John after a while goes right back to

Lastly, John's imagination plays an important role because it contains some truth to it. In one of the chapters John describes Kathy peering at him from under the water with an alert expression in her eyes but is unable to speak. This is stated when the author says:

John’s morality allowed him to see the horrible reality of civilization and realize that he will never belong to any type of society. The journey to civilization was supposed to be an enlightening experience full of unfamiliar wonders, unfortunately civilization did not hold the beauty that John built up in his mind. The horrors of society are revealed to JOhn as he is paraded around as a spectacle and experiment for others to marvel at. John realizes he will never belong to any society, he will forever be exiled from

But when he ripped the paper many people includi g his wife saw that even tho its hard, he made the right choice. ‘He have goodness now. God forbid i take it frm him) (1112). By the end of the play John’s character has changed drasticlly. He became more truthful and a good man who was willing to give up anything for his

He refers back to the time when his children were starving, saying that “I would rather cross the Atlantic ten times than hear my children cry for victuals once” (Dowe 43). John is explaining how he would rather risk his own life by crossing the ocean than have his children cry from hunger. Dowe hopes to make his wife realize that it’s worth the long journey. Coming to America is worth the risk because him and his family would not be hungry anymore. In the last paragraph, Dowe puts in writing how America “is a country where a man can stand as a man, and where he can enjoy the fruits of his own exertions, with rational liberty to its fullest extent” (Dowe 59). Dowe says ‘fruits of his own exertions’ as a metaphor for how nobody can take away a person's freedom to live and enjoy life. He needs his wife to understand that they will be safe to do as much as they want in their new life together in

Brave New World Essay The character of John, known throughout the events of the novel Brave New World by the nickname “The Savage”, is the only character presented to us who has never felt a sense of “home” anywhere he has existed in his life. John was long shunned by the people of the Reservation by the taboo and untolerated actions of his mother Linda, who originated as a member of The World State’s society, but was lost one day and remained in the reservation in the shadow of her pregnancy of John. Once moving to the “brave new world” of which he had heard such fascinating stories about since a young age, his grand idea of this paradise changed. The hope of escaping the Reservation to a sanctuary that could potentially give him a new purpose in life was too great of a promise for this

　　John also wrote to families and individuals who wanted a better outlook on life and enjoy their days on earth. In John’s description, he tells people, “What pleasure can be more, than to recreate themselves before their own doors, in their own boats upon the sea; where man, woman, and child, with a small hook and line, by angling, may take diverse sorts of excellent fish at their pleasure” (page 71)? With so many people in England, food at times could be in shortage. The

While John is explaining the meaning of the rain ceremony to both Lenina and Bernard, he tells them that both his parents are from outside the reservation and were not from the inside like the rest. Due to John's actual heritage, it damages his reputation and leads him to be excluded from the rest. He says "They disliked me for my complexion. It's always been like that. Always" (117). Due to John's offshore relation, he is rarely allowed to join the reservation and participate in their rituals. He is looked at and thought of differently based solely on his looks. It's lonely in the fact he can't even participate with the community he has grown up in. On the other hand, John learns more about the society where he resides because his alienation from everyone allows him to explore things on his own. He says "The more the boys painted and sang, the harder I read"

To start off with, John travelled into a forbidden area and he started seeing much more then he was supposed to see and that is when he started losing fear. In the story it states, “The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal […] These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden

This is because of the cultural differences and values between John’s home in the Savage Reserve and the world state. This is evident by what Bernard said to John, "So hard for me to realize, to reconstruct as though we were living on different planets, in different centuries. " A mother, and all this dirt, and gods, and old age, and disease, it's almost inconceivable." Huxley 123. The people of the world don't experience family, disease, religion, and old age.

(219) Soon enough, John commits suicide because of his hatred for caving in to chastity and having to experience such extreme culture shock within his time of being in this new world. (250) Certainly it shows how little the civilians cared for John when they were entertained by his self-mutilation at the lighthouse; although understandable since they have no sense of remorse or being saddened – they have no feelings at all, really. (246) This is an example of the way things are different between the two worlds: Even though the citizens of the reserves went through pain and suffering like our everyday world does, they were also been given the rights to feel those emotions. They had freedom of expression to act human-like. Being subjected to pain, but also being free to real gratitude is much more rewarding because they’re capable of owning their personal thoughts and feelings and John tremendously wanted that freedom back. Coincidentally, a drug called Soma is given when any feelings of discontent may arise to those of the ‘World State’ and this hallucinogen allows the person to forget all their

John is insinuating that the narrator needs to remember that even though he is a doctor and makes the money, she is needed to keep a positive attitude and image for the household to maintain its reputation and appropriate status. Langland also mentions that if the wife is seen as working outside of the home, that it could be devastating to the family because she would no longer be the dependent wife but the independent working woman (294). This is also the reason that John does not want the narrator to think about anything that would allow her to do as she wishes. By allowing the narrator to do whatever she wanted in the household and to think any thought that she wanted to, it would encourage her to think freely about her life and how she wanted to change it. However, during the present time in the United States, this is no longer the social norm or what is expected from the women of the household. Women are allowed to leave the house whenever they choose to do so as well as secure a job if they want. In fact, during the current time frame, many women work in order to help the reputation of the household because not only is this seen as more modern and liberal, but it also helps the household income. The confinement of the narrator to the house is significant because it informs the reader that

"You ought to have asked me first whether I wanted to meet them." John was sick of being shown to people and gawked at. The rift between John's values and the rest of the "civilized" people was further split when Lenina tried to have John. "Whore!" cried John when he realized what she was doing, "Damned whore!" His beliefs were tested and he passed. The new world was so different than the reservation, Lenina and the rest of society was pushing him further and further away. "They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision! Fiendishly laughing, they had insisted on the low squalor, the nauseous ugliness of the nightmare" What was paradise to some, was hell to John. The brave new world he had dreamed of was turning out to be a nightmare. Isolating himself from the rest of the world was his only escape.

Oh, make me pure,” (Huxley 244). John is portrayed as a character that deeply believes in punishing oneself because of his/her sins. He is willing to through painful experiences simply to cleanse his soul.