Who Is John's Character In Brave New World

Since the beginning of modern civilization, people have fantasized about a world without conflict, disease, aging, and violence. In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, the protagonist John the Savage travels from the Savage Reservations to a completely new society in which people are being controlled by the government. Once there, he realizes that he cannot exist in this strange place because the people lack humanity and genuine happiness. In the novel, Huxley reveals that true happiness depends upon the ability to confront and experience a wide range of emotions, both adverse and favorable.

Lenina is supportive of the way matters are handled in her society. She repeats hypnopaedic sayings with pride and refuses to hear about anyone’s unhappiness with societal matters. The totalitarian rule of the world state is similar to communism and Lenina’s name is alike that of Vladimir Lenin, a famous communist ruler. Huxley alludes to this man to illustrate the ideology of the people in this time. They are all supportive of the state of the government, but they do not realize that this is only the case due to their brainwashing. If they could understand how their lives are all pretend, there would be massive consequences for those in power. In addition to this, Shakespeare is referenced frequently throughout the novel by John. Near the end of the story, John and Helmholtz suggest bringing some of Shakespeare’s works back. The Controller denies this request because the return of his tragedies would bring back social instability. He feels that the stories would only bring unhappiness and other feelings which could lead to a loss of power. When people do not know exactly what they are missing, they are unable to fight for it, resulting in more power for those in

When John was led back into life in the futuristic society, he was mocked and treat as a strange attraction. He was at the awful end of a sick joke - people came from all over to understand this simple “savage” who has spent his life in curiously primitive manners. John was so poorly received, he went as far as wanting to commit

The bedroom can be substituted for the female body, and thereby represents "the enigma and threat generated by the concept of female sexuality in patriarchal culture" ("Pandora" 63). Concealing sexuality but also reifying the female body as and in the forbidden space of the bedroom, John invokes spatial and bodily associations of enclosure and mystery.

John experiences exile on three occasions during Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. During each exile, his lifestyle contradicts the morals, ideas, and behaviors of the Savage Reservation and the World State.

John’s actions create many conflicts with the people of this new world. “The noise of the prodigious slap which her departure was accelerated was like a pistol shot,” Huxley, Aldous, 195). In this quote John abused Lenina by hitting her extremely hard and causes her to be afraid of him. Although Lenina was coming on way too fast, he didn’t need to hit her. Another conflict that he creates in the new society is with the other people in this society. John’s actions had gone extremely far when he interrupts the rationing of Soma by yelling, “Don’t take that horrible stuff. It’s poison, it’s poison.” (Huxley, Aldous, 211). During this time he then also “... pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began

Drugs, sex and sleep entertain the masses, while those who do not enjoy them are labeled as deranged, ludicrous human beings. Bernard Marx, a psychologist born into the Alpha-Plus (high caste) class, is one of these special people. Shadowed continuously by women, Bernard attracts the attention of Lenina Crowne, with whom he visits a savage reservation in New Mexico. In the Brave New World, savages are those who refused to blindly follow Ford’s belief system, instead accepting Christianity as their major religion.

A world without fear, without pain, without age...utopia, right? A stable world such as this can look good on paper, but not until you look at it in reality. Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by author Aldous Huxley displays a society in which men and women are mass-manufactured as twins and conditioned even while they are being developed, to fit a pre-ordained societal role. In this novel, the characters of importance are as follows, John, Linda, Lenina, Helmholtz, Bernard, Mustapha Mond, and The Director. Bernard is a normal product of society designed to do the role he was created for. All goes according to plan until he introduces an unexpected outlier; John the Savage. A man born of normal means in one of the only traditional

Besides, Lenina’s perspective about sexual activities is greatly affected by the conditioning. To Lenina, making love is just like recreation. When Bernard mentioned about being alone with her, she replied that they would be alone all night but her actual mean was about making love with him. In the World State, being alone is considered odd or queer but having sex is an ordinary activity that even the children do so. Later, while Bernard and Lenina flew back, Bernard “began to fondle her breasts” (Ch.6). It is ironic that Bernard’s action was considered offensive and Lenina was supposed to feel uncomfortable but she was not. In fact, she actually felt relieved as she thought he was all right again. In another scene, after hearing John’s confession about his feeling toward Lenina when she came to him, she started to seduce him (Ch.13). Though John was trying to explain about how much he loved her, and that he respected her and wanted to marry her, Lenina couldn’t understand what he meant. Under the conditioning of the government, she was not aware of marriage‐the life-long commitment between two human beings, and she only knew that people made love when they were in love. Hence, once John

"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.

            Born and raised outside of the Brave New World, John developed a different sense of morality than in the Brave New World. John, raised by the works of Shakespeare and a mix of Christian and Native American religions and customs, believed in a sense of decency. The conflicting morals between John and the Brave New World can be seen in John's courtship of Lenina Crowne, an Alpha Plus and prime example of Brave New World upbringing. Their differences can be seen after watching the feelies where John said to Lenina, "I don't think you should see things like... this horrible film... It was base... it was ignoble." John's reaction to the gratuitous sexually of the feelies revealed his attitude of respectability, while Lenina's reaction to the feelies shows her acceptance of open sexuality. Also, conflicts of morality are seen in the scene in which John disclosed his love for Lenina.

     It is evident that Bernard and Lenina shift their attitudes after they meet the savage, John. Bernard gets a taste of power after bringing the savage home to London and becomes satisfied and happy as defined by Brave New World, a complete turnaround from his previous, almost American ideals. Lenina finds love and joy, as an American would define it after being content for so many years in the society of Brave New World. Before he finds the savage, Bernard is unhappy with his surroundings,

Lenina's final defining factor that separates her from the men in the novel, namely John, is her ability to love. It appears to be a mutual love between Lenina and John, but it is exposed later that John's love for her is only because of his love for his mother. Lenina on the other hand immediately thinks that John is "such a nice-looking boy"� with a "really beautiful body"� (117). This is the beginning of her adoration of John. She wonders what it would be "like to make love to a Savage"� (166) which makes her curiosity and interest in John obvious. Finally to her friend Fanny she admits that she "likes him"� (166). After many encounters, Lenina gets the courage, with the help of soma, to face John and attempt to seduce him. She goes to his room in a "white acetate satin sailor suit"� (189) which is like the pearl imagery when Lenina is first introduced invokes a sense of innocence in her love for John. John cannot be with her due to his connection between her

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 –

Has there? […] And seeing that, you ought to be a little more promiscuous…’” (34-6). The lack of emotional attachment between individuals is also reinforced when Lenina enters the elevator. At this point, she notices how many of the men she has engaged in sexual relations with, knowing this does not distress the men nor Lenina, instead, it is an achievement: “The lift was crowded with men from the Alpha Changing Rooms, Lenina’s entry was greeted by many friendly nods and smiles. She was a popular girl and, at one time or another had spent a night with almost all of them” (49). Furthermore, the concept of superficial relationships is also alluded to in “Brave New World”. Lenina contemplates partaking in other relationships while being involved with Henry, although Fanny explains that she must make an effort to engage in other sexual confrontations to avoid being categorised as an outcast: “‘I really do think you ought to be careful. It is such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man […] And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long drawn’” (34). Lenina therefore partially participates in other relationships simply for personal gain, even though she does not entirely agree with the concept: “‘You’re quite right, Fanny. As usual. I’ll make the effort’” (37). Linda’s conditioned ways of living