Individuality In Brave New World

Since the beginning of modern civilization, people have fantasized about a world without conflict, disease, aging, and violence. In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, the protagonist John the Savage travels from the Savage Reservations to a completely new society in which people are being controlled by the government. Once there, he realizes that he cannot exist in this strange place because the people lack humanity and genuine happiness. In the novel, Huxley reveals that true happiness depends upon the ability to confront and experience a wide range of emotions, both adverse and favorable.

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

The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932, presents a very bleak out look of what future society will be like. The novel presents a future of where almost total conformity is a carefully guarded aspect of society. Even before one is "decanted" they are conditioned to fill a specific roll and to act a certain way.

John the Savage’s view of civilization was greatly enhanced after he left the sheltered community of his tribe. When he first arrives in “utopia” London, he is amazed by the aesthetic of the city and the people who live there; here he recognizes how different the paradisal city is from the barbarous environment of his tribe. John exclaims,“how many godly creatures are there here! How beautiful mankind is!” (129). John is exemplifying the value of learning a new culture and religion from the perspective of one who has been sequestered

Brave New World In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley illustrates alienation through the character John “the Savage” to develop the theme of isolation. Being an outcast in society John understands the feeling of isolation more than anyone throughout the novel. Although the World State viewed isolation as “political inefficiency” (page 237) John saw it as an opportunity. John begins to understand the importance of art, religion, self-discovery, and literature the more he is in the World State.

Throughout the novel, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, the second protagonist John, views the world through Shakespearian eyes. “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” In several significant ways, John's knowledge of Shakespeare empowers him to be able to speak of his reactions and emotions and to be able to criticize the World State values. With his viewing the world through Shakespearean eyes, it allows John the power to realize all the values the World State had abandoned. Since John is the outsider to all the World States Value’s, since he will never and can never express his love for Lenina, and he is forced to suicide, he shows most of the traits

John, the savage, is the only human in Brave New World. He despises the “civilized” world for its inhumanity and lack of morals. John loved his mother and even though she wasn't a very good one. He is the perfect balance of “civilized” and “savage”. After doing something that he heavily regrets, John subjects himself to his own discipline for his guilt.

Throughout the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, we see the mention of "Everyone belongs to everyone else,” and that leaves no room for individuality but in the novel Lenina Crowne and John the Savage, shows strong display of individuality. Lenina individuality often goes unnoticed by the World State and also by us readers. In a lot of ways Lenina can be considered a protagonist in the novel just like John. Lenina had only been seeing one man for four months and later in the book she became heavily attached to John and at one point fallen in love with him.

In Brave New World the author, Aldous Huxley, creates a community that is efficient and and stable, but not at the expense of people’s individuality. To create this world, Huxley uses technology to manipulate mankind by synthetically producing people. By producing people, their society is dependent upon the programming of the people and later dependent upon drugs and sex to deal with problems. The people are less developed in emotions which allows for similar reactions to stress and other problems in their lives. Although their world is efficient in the work they get done, the production of the people cause them to be clones of those around them.

(219) Soon enough, John commits suicide because of his hatred for caving in to chastity and having to experience such extreme culture shock within his time of being in this new world. (250) Certainly it shows how little the civilians cared for John when they were entertained by his self-mutilation at the lighthouse; although understandable since they have no sense of remorse or being saddened – they have no feelings at all, really. (246) This is an example of the way things are different between the two worlds: Even though the citizens of the reserves went through pain and suffering like our everyday world does, they were also been given the rights to feel those emotions. They had freedom of expression to act human-like. Being subjected to pain, but also being free to real gratitude is much more rewarding because they’re capable of owning their personal thoughts and feelings and John tremendously wanted that freedom back. Coincidentally, a drug called Soma is given when any feelings of discontent may arise to those of the ‘World State’ and this hallucinogen allows the person to forget all their

Unlimited meaningless sex sounds great right? Life in the Brave New World is entirely different than it is now. We have lost our compassion and our freedom, and now we have been turned into mindless beings. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley teaches us the importance of being human through the portrayal of the necessity of individuality, history and relationships. The lack of individuality is a common theme presented throughout the book.

Aldous Huxley once wrote, “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid.” (6). Huxley wrote this to convey the audience to dislike and mistrust the social hierarchy in Brave New World because Huxley desired to show the importance of individuality even in an almost complete socialist society. Accordingly, every person’s identity, within Brave New World, is tied within their own social class. People are born into their class with duplicates of themselves which makes them lose any individuality if they ever had any at all. Each class has its own criteria for workers and the workers are mass produced in factories with their own special kind of conditions for each class.

John experiences exile on three occasions during Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. During each exile, his lifestyle contradicts the morals, ideas, and behaviors of the Savage Reservation and the World State.

Fortunately, they don’t always succeed. Through the characters Bernard, Fanny, and Helmholtz, the novel shows how an outsider perspective allows some people to question their world and search for purpose, and what some lose when they assimilate. Ultimately, the novel argues that nonconformity is essential to improving the world.

He is always alone. Disrespected secluded. “but they wouldn’t let me. They dislike me for my complexion. It has always been like this, always.” This quote uses repetition and shows that john is different. Both physically and mentally. He was left out of all ceremonies and traditions. He grew up with his mother filling his mind with dreams of brave new world. Shoving story after story of a paradise. A utopia. A place of complete and utter happiness. “what I’ve dreamt of all my life. O brave world. O brave new world with such people in it. Let’s start at once.” This quote uses an exciting tone and shows how eager john is to move to brave new world. Have a new beginning. Be accepted. Not