John Relationship In Brave New World

A world where no one is ever in pain and never alone sounds perfect, right? Well, it’s not as perfect as it sounds. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the government gives out a drug called soma to give people a false sense of happiness. It’s also normal to have sex with a lot of people with no intimate connection. If someone is different or questions anything about the way of life they live, they get sent off to an island away from the rest of society. The main character, John, grew up where the government doesn’t control people like they do in the Brave New World. He didn’t know much about the New World other than what his mother told him. Throughout the Novel, John changed from wanting to experience the New World to despising it. At first, John is naive about the New World and wants to visit it himself. Part of why John wanted to visit the New World was because he was left out of his community. John probably felt lonely most of the time. Especially since Linda, John’s mother, always

When John finally tells Lenina that he likes her, John wants to try and prove himself to her. Lenina wants to have sex right away because that's how things work in the New World. John is disgusted when he realizes that there are no personal relationships. He also hates that the community and the doctors let Linda slowly die from too much soma. “‘But aren’t you shortening her life by giving her so much?’”(Huxley, 154). He realizes that nobody cares about death or her once she is useless to them. John doesn’t understand that people have to live without religion and science. “‘Art, science-you seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness,’ … ‘Anything else?’ ‘Well, religion, of course,’”(Huxley, 230). John thought that people knew about God, art, and science. He always thought they were an important part of life. He never understood the downsides of the New World until he actually visited