Rejoin Society In Brave New World

John’s troubled soul was fueled by hatred towards Owen’s control for his destiny, the kind of control that John never has in his own life. The events leading up to the Vietnam War and beyond were out of his authority, however, as destiny has it; it is inescapably going to happen. The war itself indirectly took the life of John’s best friend and John always felt helpless and responsible thinking that somehow he should have taken some kind of control in order to change occurrences. Due to Owen Meany’s belief that he is an instrument of God and that God has set a task for him to complete, Owen does his best to fulfill each part of his destiny. John does not understand why Owen bothered, John himself having so little faith and acceptance in destiny and fate. Owen has control over which path in life he should take, he could follow God’s orders, or he could ignore his calling and not do as his fate would have to save the little Vietnamese children. John’s feeling of helplessness in the fate that has befallen Owen makes him feel responsible and angry because he thinks he could have tried to persuade Owen to avoid his destiny. Moreover, John is angry by Owen’s faith in God and his acceptance of his destiny by living his life accordingly rather than avoiding it, the control that John never

John pushes against the society’s standards. He is against taking soma, a drug that puts you are peace and goes against the social means. John takes the soma from workers at the hospital receiving their pay. “’Free, free!’ the Savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area while, with the other, he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants. ‘Free!’ And suddenly there was Helmholtz at his side —‘Good old Helmholtz!’—also punching—‘Men at last!’—and in the interval also throwing the poison out by handfuls through the open window. ‘Yes, men! men!’ and there was no more poison left. He picked up the cash-box and showed them its black emptiness. ‘You're free’” (213). John hates people taking soma because it takes away their freedom, which keeps them from thinking and speaking freely. He continues to fight the system when he isolates himself at the lighthouse because he is so against the World State. He ends up not wanting to be in the world. He hangs himself to show everyone how messed up it is and prove himself to the world controllers.

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 –

He shows signs of the id ego and superego. The superego incorporates the values and morals of society, which are learned through one's parents. Unlike the people in the new society, John has a mom, which is how his superego was developed. John has the ability to have values and morals. John has a moral dilemma when a girl puts herself onto him, “O thou weed, who are so lovely and fair and smell’st so sweet that the sense aches thee. Was this most goodly book made to write ‘whore’ upon?”(huxley 200). John likes this girl, but his values refuse to let him accept her offer. His superego causes him to revolt against the girl, because she represents all of his bad morals and values. By the time John has been in the new society his morals have been worn down, along with his ability to maintain a strong psyche. The new society counteracts with everything he has experienced on the savage reservation, and he experiences and break in his psyche. Therefore, when he gets away from the world he feels the need to cleanse himself from the society. His morals have been worn down so far that he feels the need literally beat his values and morals back into himself. By the end of his cleansing ritual he doesn’t feel like he can restore his morals so he does the only thing he thinks he can to restore his values, “Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of

Cursed to a life of isolation because of his appearance, values, and outrageous thoughts, John was alienated mentally, emotionally, and physically in both the Savage Culture and the World State Culture. Torn between keeping true to his virtues and conforming to society, the treatment of John highlights the values of both cultures in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel a Brave New World, published in 1931, there are several attacks on society. Throughout this essay it will be seen what these problems were and if they were fixed. If the problems were fixed, it must be determined when they were. The primary focus is to answer whether we have changed for the better, women’s role in society and the social classes. In the end it will be obvious that a perfect society is impossible but we have made improvement.

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

John's life seemed to be one major drama after another; he didn't have a good male role model as a kid, and it seems he never was able to get on track. What was amazing about his life was the number of problems that he seemed to get into and how he wriggled out of them (with the help of a friendly person who just happened to meet him) only to run into more problems.

He just wants to go back to a normal and happy life he tells her that “but i will cut my hand off before i ever reach for you again” (act one 23). Abby gets very upset and she starts to insult his wife with “ oh, i marvel how such a strong man let such a sickly wife be-” (act one 23) she is showing that her emotions are getting the best of her she is very angry with johns decisions about on how he wants to live his life. John is really trying to get away from her he said some kinda cruel things but he is just trying to make life a little bit easier on himself : he wants to knock her out of his but he just doesn’t know how to do it. He is trying to gain all his trust back with elizabeth and it is hard he is doing everything in his power like in act two he goes and gets her some flowers to help make her a little bit happy but that backfires on him she is obviously very upset with him and he knows that.he is showing that he is doing everything to not think about abby. Will he go to abby and apologize or will he go to elizabeth and make the better

The major development seen in John’s character takes place near the end of the story, as he seeks a more pure life in a remote location. John feels as though he’s been poisoned by this new civilization “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness.” (241). He wants to not only live a noble life, but to make this life on his own, so chooses an abandoned lighthouse, far enough away from the disaster of a community he views Brave New World as a negative place with negative ideas. This is a major change from the identity he showed before being poisoned by this civilization, but once again he stays true to his values by leading this new life on his own. John’s strong moral values prove to be the one constant in his character.

Survival may be one of the natural instincts in human beings, but it can and sometimes will be overcome by other powerful emotions. John's initial struggle for survival is suppressed by his overwhelming love for his wife. He becomes involved when his wife's name is mentioned in court, and her life becomes endangered. John does a complete turn around on his perspective of the situation. He goes from being completely isolated, to attempting to take control of the situation. However, his initial failure to do the right thing from the start caused this plan to fail.

As John was a child he suffered from pain through his mother’s actions with the men of Malpais and he looked different from others, but wasn’t focused on because of his mother being very promiscuous. “The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for the pain that he sobbed; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.”, (Pg. 136). John was exiled emotionally from others from his mother having relations with many men, word gets around fast in a group when things happen like that. He remained positive through the hurt and created this type of world for himself to surround himself with when the world he is present on is not enough.

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

When she was invited to return to the civilized society, she was rejected in every aspect. Even a glimpse of her disgusted the clones. Despite this, John still loved her. The clones could not understand how he could how he could stand to express care for what appeared to them as the most appalling creature the had ever lay eyes on. John quickly learned the cost of perfection: human manipulation and absolute control.

John, in his world, was an outcast. He was looked down upon because of Linda’s origin and innate promiscuity she developed while she was a child in conditioning. Bernard offers for John and Linda to go back to England with him, and of course they accept. Bernard gets permission to take John and Linda back with him because the