Character Analysis Of John The Savage

“Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy" (Huxley 41). John The Savage is the son of the director and Linda. Tomakin abandoned them on the reservation. Tomakin did not even know John existed until he appeared in London as an adult. He is the only character to grow up in the outside world. John gets his name because he grew up on an Indian savage reservation in New Mexico. John is considered to be the protagonist of the story, and a figure of what the old world order used to be like. In Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, John the Savage is clearly an unorthodox character because he does not fit in physically, intellectually, or morally.
First off, John has a hard time blending into

We see that whenever John the Savage is in distress he uses Zuni or Shakespearian language to express himself: “Ai yaa tákwa! It was only in Zuñi that the Savage could adequately express what he felt…” (Huxley 173). He sees this as another way to show his defiance from the rulers of the New World State. As an outsider John takes his moral and values from Shakespeare’s works and plays; however, Shakespeare is outlawed in this society. The reasoning behind outlawing Shakespeare is because the past is dangerous. Dr. Gaffney, the headmaster at a London school: "contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don 't encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements”(Huxley 163). The powerful rulers of the World State see thinking as unorthodox and a major threat to society. John’s suicide at the end of the novel can be linked to a result of insanity that was created by the world around him. John the Savage remembers:“ Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet. ‘Well then,’ he said, after a pause, ‘something new that 's like Othello, and that they could understand’” (Huxley 220). Through out the novel we see that John not only clashes with society on an intellectual level but also has different morals and values as