John In Brave New World, By Aldous Huxley

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In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley there are many different unique characters that may stand out to the reader. One character in particular that stands out is John. Unlike most of the characters in the world state society, John is the only child that was conceived through natural birth and born of a mother’s womb. His mother, Linda, didn’t expect to have John. Linda says that she had John because something went wrong with her contraceptives. Since Linda was on the Reservation, living with the Indians, she could not get an abortion and didn’t want to return to the World State while impregnated with John. The reason Linda ended up in the Reservation in the first place was because she fell and experienced a tragic accident …show more content…

Such aspects include his motives, aspirations, fears, obsessions and desires. One of John’s aspirations while he was on Indian reservation was to live in the World State. However, after acquiring knowledge of how the society actually works, his motive changes into not wanting to be part of the World State. Before John actually went to the World State with Bernard Marx, he did not really know what type of society it was. He had no idea of how that society was managed and how the people in the World State acted towards each other. John would ask his mother Linda about the World State but she did not tell him much about it. When she did talk to him about it, she would refer to it as the “other place”. John grew up in the Indian reservation and even though he was an outcast and wasn’t allowed to participate in the Indian’s rituals, he still went by their way of living and how they did …show more content…

For John’s case, he seems to not fit in with the people of the World State society. People of the World State see John as somewhat of an outsider. Lenina took soma and tried to seduce John but he ends up slapping her and calling her a whore. Then John goes to visit his mother but while at the hospital he is insulted by a group of “Bokanovsky” boys because they called Linda fat and ugly and he hits one of the boys. Shortly after John’s mother dies and he rushes out of the ward. After rushing out of the ward he comes across a group of Deltas that were getting their soma. Now that John is not disgusted and angry at the World State society he riots and throws the soma out of the window. The Deltas become angry and start to riot as well. It got to a point where the police had to come and spray soma vapor and anesthetics over everybody in order to calm everybody down. In the end John secludes himself from the World State and moves to a lighthouse. At the lighthouse he punishes himself by whipping himself because he felt that he was contaminated and needed to cleanse. Many people came to watch John whip himself and everybody started to sing “Orgy-porgy”. The next morning John woke up and realized that he took part in the one thing that he despised. After remembering everything that happened the night before, he hung himself inside the lighthouse. John does not fit into this society at large. His views are

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