John's Character Development A Brave New World

Describe the philosophical differences regarding romance that cause a conflict between John and Lenina. How does Lenina handle her feelings, and how does John think he should handle his? What does he want to do, and why does he say he would never “kill [lions] out of helicopters”? Why is Lenina confused about John’s feelings for her—what expectation does she have? What is John’s reaction to her decision to come on to him so aggressively? What does the following Shakespeare quote mean? “Down from the waist they are Centaurs, though women all above.”

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.

In the story, you can see that john is passive men that try’s to avoid conflicts in any way possible. There was when john lied to the stranger and also his boss about what the stranger wanted so that it wouldn’t make Mr. Berry upset. Also, when John agrees with Mr. Barry about his son broke his plants knowing that it wasn’t actually his son and that some white bully threw it up there, but instead went along with it to avoid conflict. John is trying to protect his love one and those around him which makes him passive.

He tried to smile at her. Suddenly she put her arms round him and kisses him again and again” (127). Since Linda has an emotional attachment to John, she has a personality different from the other citizens of the World State Society. However, despite the motherly connection that she could have continued with John, she chooses to sell her life to the drug soma. When Lenina lays dying in the hospital with John next to her, she unconsciously chooses her life of sex and soma she used to have over John: “She knew him for John, her son, but fancied him an intruder into that paradisal Malpais where she had been spending her soma-holiday with Popé” (205). In the very end, Linda suppresses her emotional love for John with soma and goes back to the principles and pleasantries of the World State Society.

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.

He wants everyone to feel the emotions that you would normally deal with through life and experience life as it should be experienced normally. John starts yelling to the people in the Dying Hospital about the soma when they were about to pass it out, claiming it is poison and it is trapping them and turning them into slaves. He then proceeds to throw the soma out the window while Deltas start to run over to him, while he still continues to throw the soma away and then shows the emptiness of the box. " "Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

He looks at the old fashioned morality he learned from Shakespeare. His beliefs contradict those of the Brave New World. In defiance of the Brave New World’'s social norms, he falls romantically in love with Lenina, but despises her premature sexual advances. John goes on a date with Lenina to the feelies, where they see Three Weeks in a Helicopter. Lenina is turned on by this, but John feels embarrassed and ashamed. John’s rejection of the shallow happiness of the World State, his inability to reconcile his love and lust for Lenina, and even his eventual suicide all reflect themes from Shakespeare. He is himself a Shakespearean character in a world where any poetry that does not sell a product is

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

Those who conform to the “Brave New World” lose their individuality and self-identity despite the World State’s motto being ‘Community, Identity, Stability’. In order for the ‘Brave New World to function all castes must work together through the artificial ideas of ‘identity’ and individuality to achieve happiness because the only way to achieve stability is to remove all negative feeling about the way the ‘Brave New World’ works. The people who choose not to conform begin a process of discovery. This discovery of something new and different to the ‘normal’ practices of society isn’t about the individual helping themselves but always about benefiting society and the greater good of humanity. All conformists used a drug called soma as a way of escaping reality and their consciousness. John didn’t see the need to use drugs because he believed that they shouldn’t have been used in a society that has a primal goal of a simple ad passive lifestyle. Not conforming to the use of drugs maintained his consciousness and his ability to be the one who was aware of the limitations and control society has put onto

In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses character development to contrast the two different societies present in the novel.He shows the importance of morality, or an increase in wisdom in the character of humankind. The author contrasts a society full of static and flat characters and another society full of round characters. In order to show the importance of life experiences in changing the character of individuals in the society.

In chapter 10, the D.H.C states " murder only kills the individual - what is an individual anyway? " The individual is not acknowledged as existing, however, John's act allows him to have complete control over his individuality. His demise is not formulated in the Predestination Room, but rather by his own action. Additionally, the reader may experience a sense of "hope" as a result of John's suicide. John will no longer suffer from the prying eyes of society.

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.

In “Brave New World,” a woman exiles herself in embarrassment for becoming pregnant with the directors child. This woman, Linda, lets her fear of how the others will judge her dictate her decision to stay in the New Mexico Savage Reservation. Linda’s outcasting was social as well as physical, this situation empowers Linda, but also leads to her demise.

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

Almost all teens experience some sort of an identity crisis. They struggle with finding a clearer sense of themselves. Arnold Spirit Jr., a 14-year-old reservation Indian, faces an identity crisis when he leaves his reservation to go to school in Reardan, a town inhibited by white people. To begin, Arnold moves between different settings, and when he does, there is a change in his identity. Moreover, there is a change in his character as he moves between cities. Finally, Arnold experiences an identity crisis as well as conflicts with his community. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the author uses literary elements to emphasize that one’s racial and ethnic identity changes depending on the social surrounding.