Essay about Use of an Outsider’s Perspective in Brave New World

The conflict of the story is that John must over come his fears and go

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

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 the Brave New World, people who are different from the normal standard are alienated and isolated from society because of their individuality. The society of the Brave New World is structured and ordered – the government attempts to control everything. Alienation in the Brave New World can be categorized into three areas, appearance, intellect, and morals.

“I have freedom,” you say? Do you really? Perhaps, in some ways, you do. But in the end, you’re just another puppet being controlled by invisible strings whether you know it or not. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said. In society, man is “chained” and controlled by the government, by pressure of conforming to the social norms, by wealth and social class, and by one’s desires and emotions. Prior to birth, man is not restricted by such factors but that is merely a fleeting moment as he is slowly exposed to more and more of the world. I agree that “everywhere [man] is in chains,” but on the contrary, I believe man is already chained from the start—that man is never free. In the novel, Brave New

The protagonist, John, also known as “the Savage,” is the only person in the novel who was born naturally. Everyone else was developed through an embryo in something known as Bokanovsky’s Process. This makes him an outcast. John opposes the society, known as the World State, and he expresses it to other people. John told the controller of the World State, Mustapha Mond, “One of the numerous things in heaven and earth that these philosophers didn’t dream about was this. Us, the modern world” (Huxley 233). He attempts to try to tell Mustapha how corrupt the society is. He also tries to change the World State throughout the novel, but he does not succeed very well. He ends up leaving the World State for a lighthouse outside of the city, but he ends up hanging himself due to feeling like he doesn’t belong anywhere.

In the Sci-fi futuristic novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley introduces the idea of the utopian society, achieved through technological advancement in biology and chemistry, such as cloning and the use of controlled substances. In his novel, the government succeeds in attaining stability using extreme forms of control, such as sleep teaching, known as conditioning, antidepressant drugs – soma and a strict social caste system. This paper will analyze the relevance of control of society versus individual freedom and happiness to our society through examining how Huxley uses character development and conflict. In the “Brave New World”, Control of society is used to enforce

Huxley's work, Brave New World, is a book about a society that is in the future. This book contains many strange things that are generally unheard of today. Yet we see that some of the ideas that are presented in this book were already present in the 20th century. The idea of having one superior race of people can easily be seen as something that Hitler was trying to accomplish during the Holocaust. Huxley presents the society in his book as being a greater civilization. A totalitarian type of leadership is also presented in his book. According to him, this would be the best and most effective type of government. Hitler also thought that a totalitarian government was best. We see several similarities between Hitler's Germany and Huxley's

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.

Aldous Huxley wisely inserts many instances of distortion to the elements in Brave New World to successfully caution the world about its growing interest in technology.

Lenina's final defining factor that separates her from the men in the novel, namely John, is her ability to love. It appears to be a mutual love between Lenina and John, but it is exposed later that John's love for her is only because of his love for his mother. Lenina on the other hand immediately thinks that John is "such a nice-looking boy"� with a "really beautiful body"� (117). This is the beginning of her adoration of John. She wonders what it would be "like to make love to a Savage"� (166) which makes her curiosity and interest in John obvious. Finally to her friend Fanny she admits that she "likes him"� (166). After many encounters, Lenina gets the courage, with the help of soma, to face John and attempt to seduce him. She goes to his room in a "white acetate satin sailor suit"� (189) which is like the pearl imagery when Lenina is first introduced invokes a sense of innocence in her love for John. John cannot be with her due to his connection between her

Back in the 1930's when "Brave New World" was published, no body dreamt that world of science fiction would ever come into reality. Surely there must have been a time though when a machine that could wash clothes too, seemed like science fiction. That machine has come into reality though. With today's technology and already seeing how far we've advanced scientifically, who's to say we

Since he grew up on the Reservation, it is clear that John is extremely different from the mechanically produced and conditioned citizens of the World State. After arriving in the dystopian society, John says, ‘“O brave new world that has such people in it’” (107). Growing up in a completely opposite environment, John is in awe when he witnesses the many technological aspects that allow the World State to function and continue building a perfect society. The reference to the title illuminates the difference between John the Savage and everyone around him because they come from two different worlds; however, John expresses a sense of excitement as he finally explores a new and civilized society. On the other hand, the reference to the title can also be taken ironically because at first, John seems to almost praise the civilization he is in; however, as he spends more time in the World State and understands the extent of the control the citizens are under, he rejects all the ideals that the “brave new world” encompasses.

John the savage is born, and raised to become the most incongruous yet rigid cell in the social body because his Shakespearean extremism and childhood conditioning forbid him to compromise to civilization. Shakespeare, parallels with hypnopaedia, gives John the power to voice his emotions while conditioning him to live by its morality. On his pursuit of a Romeo-and-Juliet relationship with Lenina, he fails in collision with beliefs of the world state’s, he associates sex with violence and immediately labels their relationship as betrayal of the ability to love and a shameful product of sexual desires by quoting King Lear’s vigina-shaming lines (177). Such dramatic confrontation illustrates his unshakeable stance against the world state, resulted

At times in life there comes something called change. In my opinion, I was not a big fan of change. You cannot imagine how I was feeling when my mother announced that we were moving. It was the middle of my sixth-grade year, I was feeling countless emotions, none that could be explained at the moment of the announcement. The main thing on my mind was school; my friends, my outstanding teachers, and the environment. All things I had left behind. All I could think about was, “How will I ever adjust?” I knew exactly what was to come, I knew exactly what I was going to become, an outcast. There were numerous of ways on why I was feeling this way, but