John's Loss Of Sanity In Brave New World

This does not end well because Bernard and Helmholtz get a call to come and pick up John. All three of them end up getting arrested because of their rebellious action (Huxley 215). All three of them are sent to go Mustapha Mond (Huxley 218). Then after John and Mond have their argument, John is sent away (Huxley 230-240). John wants to leave this new world with Bernard, but he is not allowed to because it would impact the Mond’s experiment with John (Huxley 242). John ends up running away to an abandoned lighthouse to start a new life with no one around him (Huxley 245). John’s actions are to the point physical abuse towards himself because of his feelings (Huxley 250). Then Lenina shows up at John’s lighthouse, which causes John to rage and attack her (Huxley 257). In the end, John wakes up and was not happy with his decisions from the previous night so he decided to kill himself (Huxley

John's life seemed to be one major drama after another; he didn't have a good male role model as a kid, and it seems he never was able to get on track. What was amazing about his life was the number of problems that he seemed to get into and how he wriggled out of them (with the help of a friendly person who just happened to meet him) only to run into more problems.

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

“When you know the truth it will drive you insane”. The quote by Aldous Huxley perfectly encapsulates what happened to the character John throughout Brave New World. John idolizes the World State and always has wanted to go there. Since he has lived on a savage reservation his whole life he’s never known the luxuries such as “soma” and “feelies”. John has evolved a great deal throughout Brave New World, he started naive and hopeful, became skeptical of the World State’s greatness, and ended depressed and angry.

In Brave New World, everyone is “programmed” into being happy with what they are doing, no matter what it is that they’re doing. For example, someone doing hard work for low pay is just as happy as a rich man doing little to no work. The people in this book thrive upon unmeaningful sex, and destroying their brains with soma. John was raised in a different society. Everything he knows is based off Shakespearean stories.

In Brave New World, John the Savage was exiled indirectly and directly from his native place. Although John the Savage was exiled, he found the positive in everything from the moment that he was young until the moment he realized that all he heard was wrong about the New World. The aspect of the New World was told to him through stories as a child and towards the end John then finds that it’s not all it is thought of to have been.

Throughout the story, in fact, it’s his desire to know more that keeps him motivated after every negative encounter. He seems to be a very cut and dry, prototypical, YA protagonist, but in fact, as the story progresses, we learn it’s in fact there is a lot more to John and his world than meets the eye. The very embodiment of human curiosity and ignorance, John is written into a story that spawns as a result of negligence and destruction-- or in better terms, a story that spawns as a result of human negligence and destruction. Because the godlands? They aren’t ancient ruins of a pseudo-olympus land where gods roamed and played.

He knows he took the chaos of his home for granted. This acts as the final confirmation that he won’t be able to get back to his past life, but that he needs an escape from this “[...] brave new world [that] mocked him through his misery.” (Huxley, 210), incentivizing suicide as his final solution. This implication of suicide as an escape after John visits both cities helps to tie the overarching idea of the relationship people have with death together. Irrevocably, at the end of the novel, John’s suicide is discovered, and the lack of emotion within the reactions towards it forms another panoramic and defined character to further forward the conditioning in society; the citizens of the World State.

What’s in a name? Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is a science fiction novel set in futuristic times. Revolving around a handful of characters that stray from the “norm,” Huxley’s futuristic society darkly mocks the misuse of science. The character John is introduced halfway through the novel after Bernard and Lenina discover him living in a Savage Reservation. While considered savage for his difference by the civilized world, to the readers John is the only civilized character in the entire novel.

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.

The major development seen in John’s character takes place near the end of the story, as he seeks a more pure life in a remote location. John feels as though he’s been poisoned by this new civilization “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness.” (241). He wants to not only live a noble life, but to make this life on his own, so chooses an abandoned lighthouse, far enough away from the disaster of a community he views Brave New World as a negative place with negative ideas. This is a major change from the identity he showed before being poisoned by this civilization, but once again he stays true to his values by leading this new life on his own. John’s strong moral values prove to be the one constant in his character.

But when John arrives, he sees that his “brave new world” is far from the savage reservation. He sees that the people in London are enslaved by their controllers, pop Soma to escape the pain and suffering, and dont have close relationships with others and instead have orgies and sleep around. John in short is completely overwhelmed and feels alienated from this

Since John grew up on the reservation he immediately realizes the lies being told in the World State and calls them out. John talks about how he doesn’t “want comfort. I want God... I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin,” he wants people to realize that happiness is growing up with a family, growing up no fearing death, not running to a pill to escape fear

John grew up in a Savage Reservation in New Mexico, but he was of a different breed than the rest of his peers. His mother and father were from the World State in London (Huxley 118). His mother, named Linda, was left behind after a storm occurred during a visit to the reservation, forcing her to stay. Unfortunately for Linda, she was pregnant at the time of the storm, so she birthed John nine months later (Huxley 96 and 97). John’s differences from his peers made him an outcast in his society.

John tries to change the framework of this brave new world based upon his values, but all his attempts opposing stability can’t be accepted and finally lead him to his death. Linda’s death marks a transition point of John’s life. Through this trauma, John experiences these citizens’ indifference. He can’t understand their callousness toward a real human’s death. Linda was his real mother, and he loved her very much. This kind of close relationship did not exist in the brave new world. Therefore, John can’t adopt citizens’ attitudes, and the citizens view him as a person who will destroy the status quo. This event affects John’s feelings and forces him to take a stand against the brave new world. Preventing soma distribution is his chance to confront this “enemy”. He thinks, “Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful” (210). This reflection makes him consider a rebellion –