Cultural Values And Traditions In Brave New World

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s identities are influenced by two opposite societies, and even though he tries to prove his manhood and change the framework of brave new world, he can’t gain real acceptance from anywhere. John’s mother, Linda, is from the brave new world but gave birth to him in the savage reservation and her different behaviors based on the framework of the brave new world caused John’s isolation in the savage reservation. John decides to move to the brave new world and becomes popular in this society, but his identity, influenced by his “savage” culture, can’t be accepted by the community. His conflict with the brave new world finally forces him to try to change the framework of the society, but his attempt is

Education —an institution for success, opportunity, and progress — is itself steeped in racism. In Sherman Alexie’s short story “Indian Education” from his book The Longer Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is set in two places, the Spokane Indian Reservation and a farm town nearby the reservation. The story is written in a list of formative events chronologize Victor’s youth by depicting the most potent moment from each year he is in school. Alexie addresses the issue of racism in education by examining examples of injustice and discrimination over twelve years in a boy’s life. Victor faces his initial injustice in first grade when he is bullied by bigger kids, but his understanding of injustice becomes much more complex in grades two through twelve as he experiences discrimination against his American Indian identity. Familial experiences of a Native woman, Alexie’s style and humor, and Victor’s awareness of discrimination from grade one to twelve all reveal the grim reality of growing up and being schooled on an American Indian reservation.

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 Brave New World there is the World State and Savage Reservation. These two settings are two widely different places with different thoughts and different cultures. In the World State you are to live by Community, Stability, and Identity while in the Savage Reservation there are human ways that are quite similar to the world today. While Bernard suffers from the isolation of the alpha caste system, John has learned to use it in his favor. John learned to embrace his individuality

The opening paragraph acknowledges an ethnic stereotype of Indians. Before even introducing the fact that he was an Indian, he pointed out the fact that he couldn’t read, and then added the details of the financial difficulties his family faced living on the reservation. The information also challenges the stereotype by always providing an example to how his family would make it through the tough times. He says that they were poor by most standards, but his parents would find a minimum-wage job to make them middle-class by reservation standards.

In a futuristic utopian society in which people are grown as nearly identical embryos in bottles, finding someone who is a complete outcast from the rest of society is rare. In Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, makes John an exception. Isolated, disengaged, and rejected, John is truthfully not apart of the “civilized” World State culture or the “savage” Indian culture. Being the only person in the book not born in a laboratory, John additionally stands to represent a unique human being whose identity and family relationships violate all the other’s societal ideals. His experience with exile was alienating for his relationships with people yet enriching, at times, for his self expression.

For Victor, growing up on a reservation was not easy. Multiple times he experienced discrimination, on and off the reservation. His second grade teacher decided to punish him instead of rewarding him for his phenomenal grade on a spelling test. He was also subjected to discrimination when a teacher assumed he passed out due to drunkenness because of his skin color, Victor says to this, “Sharing dark skin doesn’t necessarily make two people brothers.” (Alexie, 1993, p. 5) Discrimination was not the only issue Victor experienced, hunger was another problem. While he and his family barley had any food, girls in the bathroom stalls were throwing up their lunch. People take advantage of the luxuries they possess when there are people who barley

Before we evaluate Johnny’s behaviour, it is important that we analyze the impacts of intergenerational trauma and how they have contributed to Johnny’s lack of well-being. Prior to colonialism, Indigenous Peoples withheld their own systems of governance, economy, trading, and furthermore. Before the arrival of Europeans, Indigenous Peoples were able to satisfy all of their material and spiritual needs through the resources that the land had provided for them. All Indigenous Peoples believed that their values and traditions were gifts from the Creator. One of the most important and most common teachings was that people should live in harmony with the natural world and all it contained. (Truth And Reconcilation Commission, 2015.) This respect for the land and all of its people was reflected through songs, dances, festivals and ceremonies. (Truth and Reconcilation Commission, 2015.) However following colonialism, all of these systems had been attacked and disrupted. While many Indigenous Peoples still continue to follow these traditions and practices, it is evident that so many of their existing systems had been destroyed and will not be the same as they once were.

John doesn’t fit into the reservation way of life because his mother was shamed for scandalous behavior,

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s identities are influenced by two opposite societies, and even though he tries to prove his manhood and change the framework of brave new world, he can’t gain real acceptance from anywhere. John’s mother, Linda, is from the brave new world but gave birth to him in the savage reservation and her different behaviors based on the framework of the brave new world caused John’s isolation in the savage reservation. John decides to move to the brave new world and becomes popular in this society, but his identity, influenced by his “savage” culture, can’t be accepted by the community. His conflict with the brave new world finally forces him to try to change the framework of the society, but his attempt is

In Brave New World, John experiences a radical shift in his life after he leaves the Reservation and goes to the World State. In the reservation, he was already somewhat exiled, as he was the only white person other than his mother and was ostracized for that as well as for his mother’s promiscuity, but this was doubled down in the World State as he was very quickly exposed to what the rest of the world looked like, and he found himself in exile again, this time self-imposed in a lighthouse.

The society, cultural norms, and outcasts of Huxley’s Brave New World reveal the true backbone to the stability of the community. The society’s organization depends on the susceptibility of its people to feel not as an individual, but as a whole community, identical and belonging to others. The society is appealing to its citizens, who always experience an induced happiness and therefore have no choice but to feel content. However, the society strips its people of anything raw, true, or lively. Experience is nonexistent and life is a dull and repetitious cycle. There are several authority figures. These figures include Mustapha Mond: the World Controller, Helmholtz: the message writer, Tomakin: the director, and Bernard the psychologist. There are

Brave New World follows a character named John as he navigates a world very different from ours. He grew up living in a ‘savage reservation’. Outside of this reservation, children are created in a lab and conditioned since birth to live a certain way. They are conditioned to enjoy the jobs they work, the social classes they are in, and to enjoy spending copious amounts of money on recreational activities. However, on the reservation, people live a closer to the one we are used to. Children are raised by their mothers and fathers, and are brought up to believe in religious deities. On the reservation, sex and drug use are taboo and looked upon with shame. John is brought to live with the rest of society and it is traumatizing. He is not used to the attitudes people take toward sexual freedom, drug use, and giving in to pleasure. John tries to isolate himself from the society eventually and deny himself all

InThe Brave New World, Huxley creates a so called utopia based on the fundamentals of “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 3). In the community, citizens live together as one where everyone belongs to everyone else. The citizen’s identities are predestined which determines how they will be utilized in the community. Overall, the world is completely controlled which results in total stability of the utopia. The stability of the New World slowly deteriorates and is viewed as a dystopia when John the Savage is welcomed in. Growing up in a different community, John has made his own identity and creates his own view on how life should be lived. John spreads his thoughts to other citizens in the world and slowly starts to influence others to

The boy, John, had mentioned a quote that put my brain into thinking. “O, brave new world that has such people in it!” (William Shakespeare) From John reading all of Shakespeare’s works it has rubbed off on him. When speaking he has a more complex vocabulary with his emotions, desires, etc. “He wants the old world back - dirt, diseases, free will, fear, anguish, blood, sweat, tears and all.” (The Guardian) Huxley did a phenomenal job with this character because it shows John’s individuality from all the rest. He is almost a person like today; he has desires, emotions, and his own thoughts. John has almost the same mentality as Shakespeare, but it causes a problem. All of the human values and traits that Shakespeare has have been abolished from the World State. Huxley did a phenomenal job with creating John as a character. He added a similar individual of today into the World State where things are the complete opposite of our