John The Savage Alienation

Society tricks the Savage by making him believe that he is free and able to do whatever he wants when in reality, he was not granted these liberties. John is shown what makes the society “civilized” and what makes the society work, but he doesn’t agree with any of their methods. However, when John asks Mond if he can go to the islands with his friends, Mond refuses to let him because he says that John needs to stay for experimentation. He is trapped

Theme Statement: All civilized objects, activites, and souls, have inner savage which is held back by forced law, until power brings out the savage in everyone and everything.

Damon Knight’s “The Country of the Kind” follows a narrator who the audience at first knows little about, who lives in a society that is different from the norm, but is also initially left ambiguous. This sense of the unknown exists up until the narrator stumbles upon a pamphlet which opens up new viewpoints to the reader. The pamphlet serves to create three new perspectives in particular, all of which significantly shift the reader’s understanding of the story. First, it gives the reader a chance to understand the narrator and sympathize with him. Second, it offers a new perspective on society and their overall conception of what defines a utopia. The third and final perspective is that of the people who live within this society, and their interactions with the main characters. These three new perspectives prove to be formative in understanding the main character, his interactions with other characters in the story, and the role of society.

In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World, John (referred to as “the savage”) is the voice of freedom in a society ruled by an inexorable pursuit of superficial happiness. In the dystopian setting, the world controllers maintain public satisfaction “but at a very high price—the sacrifice of freedom, individuality, truth, beauty, a sense of purpose, and the concept of God” (Neilson). John’s unorthodox beliefs about monogamy, God, drugs, and freedom clash with that of the overwhelming majority of people in the totalitarian London utopia. This barrier is rooted in John’s natural moral development as opposed to the artificial conditioning of the rest of society and it leads to John’s complete isolation from the people of London.

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley uses the comparison of two places, the Savage Reservation and London, to build the backbone of the novel. The Savage Reservation and London are used to show two extremes that society has created in Huxley’s novel, these two extremes convey the uncivilized manner of what is seen as savage and the machine-like, futuristic cleanliness. The juxtaposition of the Savage Reservation and London strangely bring both locations into focus for the reader. Although Huxley creates two different societies neither one of them is a true utopia, because in a true utopia humanity wouldn’t be lost.

The Brave New World offers its citizens possibilities that the savages in the Savage Reservation do not have access to. It provides them with sustainable comfort, and positive feelings. The Savage Reservation provides pain and a lack of cleanliness that makes it habitable solely to its savage population . Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a preferable living space that has a better quality of living, offers stability and community to its citizens, and has a cleaner lifestyle than the savage reservation .

What is the Noble Savage? Authors James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Pontiac, and Mary Rowlandson seek to answer to that very question in their respective writings. Each author has a different take on the Noble Savage—some focus more on nobility rather than savagery, others do the inverse, and some have a good balance of the two. When coupled together, the varying viewpoints lend themselves to paint a great picture of what the Noble Savage truly is: a complex archetype. After examining each of the works by the authors, I have concluded that the two aspects which make up the Noble Savage—nobility and savagery—are found in how they carry themselves, how they live, how they go about killing and why, and ultimately how they feel

When these and other questions weigh upon his mind he begins to realize that something is fundamentally wrong with the world he is living in. In Brave New World the main character, Bernard, is set apart from society by physical differences, which, in a society of ‘engineered’ people is extremely inhibiting. It is these ‘defects’ which cause him to look for a deeper meaning than the drug induced happiness forced upon him. These characters, although alienated in the novels, are believable and rational. The acts of their questioning in their search for the truth and real emotion persuade the reader to do the same thing. It is in this manner that the utility of these novels becomes apparent; through the demands they make of the reader personally - a superior social commentary, one that demands interaction, is born.

Upon Lenina and Bernard’s arrival to the Savage Reservation, Huxley immediately depicts the setting as one in which that only creatures who are inferior to humans could survive. The first descriptions of the reservation starkly contrast the efficient, hygienic, and affluent world the civilized characters are used to with “unfavorable climatic or geological conditions [and] poverty of natural resources,” (Huxley 162). In addition to adverse environmental issues such as hot weather and location, a straight fence of "the geometrical symbol of triumphant human purpose," encloses the inhabitants (Huxley 105). Huxley discernibly constructs the reservation as a confined space with “no escape” and “perfectly tamed” savages (Huxley 102, 106). The connection

John, a savage, has never been able to fit in society. Moving through two contradicting societies, John is unable to adapt to the major differences of the civilized society due to the different ways upon how it is conducted. Living with the savages, John feels isolated from the savages as they exclude him from most of their norms. John wanted to

In the following novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, there was one particular character that stood out to me, due to his situation. John the Savage, who Huxley compares the essential and civilized societies of the future was one of the main characters in the book. He is the son of the Director and Linda, and was born and raised on an Indian Reservation. The reservation takes place in New Mexico after an accident stranded Linda there, and the Director assumes she was dead, and returned to his civilization without her. John, as of right now it twenty years old, tall, and very handsome, and raised in an Indian culture. His mother Linda has told him tales when he was younger, and he now has a Utopian view of civilization based on that, as well

Dear Audience, Today I am going to talk about a particular theme that really got my attention; about a guy called John, who was the only human in the Brave New World that have born from a mother’s womb. John, himself, represented an unique person in the novel, with a peculiar identity unlike any other character. Although he is the son of the upper caste, The Alphas but unfortunately, he grows up in the misery of the wild, disconnected, rejected reservation. It is very clear that John is not a very lover and worsts a fanatic of the civilization. John thinks it is disgusting not only for their methods, despite also terror for his lack of humanity, what caused all the people around him immediately try to label him as “Savage”.

The satirical world that Aldous Huxley curates in Brave New World possesses a futuristic society that the culture of today has yet to reach. Within Huxley’s novel, the residents of London devote themselves to the World State and live by the infamous motto: “Community, Identity, Stability” (3). They pride in sexual activity and view themselves superior to other regions of the world. They travel to savage reservations, such as Malpais, for vacations and romantic getaways to observe the savage people, who are uncivilized and lawless to the World State’s standards. Throughout the novel, Huxley hunts for true civilization through the parallel societies of the World State and Malpais. By creating Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus, and John the Savage; Huxley was able to connect the two worlds with different customs to conceive a clear discovery. The contrasted characters in Brave New World showcase the seemingly different forms of life, yet contain the same underlying flaw. Huxley built his novel upon the idea that the greatest comfort to people will bring the greatest pain.

For a society like this to work in reality, everyone living in in it cannot know of life outside of that society. In other words, one cannot take someone who knows freedom of choice, expression, and thought and place them in a society devoid of those things. They will know that something is wrong, and will not be able to adjust to the strict rules of society. John “the Savage” was taken from his life outside of the “perfect” society. In his life, he experienced pain and suffering in many forms and when he was brought to society, all the sufferings were taken away and replaced with an easy lifestyle. John was not brainwashed, he knew what freedom was, and he hated life there so much that he ultimately kills himself to escape from it. In

I’d have gone round ten times-twelve, fifteen. Palowhtiwa only got as far as seven. They could have had twice as much blood from me” (Huxley 100). This shows John’s urge to be a part of the savage community and be like the other savages. Him being different, causes him to be sad since he is not free to do as he wishes.