Linda In Brave New World

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The author, Aldous Huxley, creates a character in his book, The Brave New World, named Linda. The character in this novel experiences long term separation from her home, which is a place in which humans are created through science. She is abandoned by the director, that left her to fend for herself in a “Savage Reservation;” the Savage Reservation is an area in which humans who were not brought into the world of civilization and laboratory breeding spend their lives. The director gave up on his search after he sent out a search party the next day she was lost.(pg.96) Moreover, the author created Linda as a means to symbolize the lack of importance placed upon human life.

Linda, in her time away from home has been emotionally and physically abused by the natives of the Savage Reservation. She was physically beaten by the women in her new home, they came into her room and held her down and whipped her repeatedly. Her son John compared …show more content…

Linda was never alone because of her son John, who always cared and tried his best to protect her; “He caught hold of the woman’s enormous brown hand between his own and bit it with all his might.” He was trying to stop the gang assault on Linda when the women of the reservation were whipping her. She got to go through the wonderful experience of becoming a mother, and taught John how to read. Linda was deprived of soma, the author wrote that “what I had to suffer and not a gramme of soma to be had”(pg.120) indicated that Linda was addicted to this drug and she might have been in fact suffering from withdrawal syndrome. Withdrawal syndrome is an abrupt discontinuation of a particular substance that affects the normal functions of the brain. The syndrome is diagnosed by a sudden burst of physiological activity which was suppressed by the substance that was used. In this case Linda was suffering from depression due to a lack of a resource she found at

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