Brave New World
In the novel one of the main characters, John the Savage, is introduced into what he describes as a Brave New World. Prior to his introduction he was raised by his mother in a Reservation in New Mexico. When Bernard Marx and his date Lenina Crowne travel to the Reservation for a vacation, they meet John and his mother, Linda. Bernard is intrigued by them, especially after he discovers that John’s estranged father is none other than the D.H.C.. Bernard decides to bring the two of them back with him to London. Tragedy, death and confusion lead John the Savage to suicide. He has many interpretations of the Brave New World which cause him to take his own life. Although the Brave New World is thought by its inhabitants to be a utopia, it is actually a loveless and sinister place where happiness is solely derived from mass produced goods, promiscuous sex, “the feelies”, and soma- a pleasure drug, and everyone is, as Lenina says, “happy now”. Rather than having God as their supreme power, they bow to Henry Ford, the inventor of the assembly line. Their time is counted in years after Ford
John’s mother starts to die from her abuse of soma. While he is in the hospital with her, the nurses are confused by his presence and grief since no one mourns death and they have very few visitors. Suddenly a group of Delta children undergoing death conditioning enter the room. John is enraged by their disrespect and pushed them out of the room. John sees Delta workers at the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying that are waiting for their soma rations. He again gets very angry and tries to lead a revolution against the Brave New World but the Deltas are too stupid to grasp his concepts of freedom and demand their rations. A fight starts and Helmholtz Watson, Bernard’s friend, sees John and saves him from the mob. Upon realizing what he had participated in, John felt as if he had given into the one thing that he vowed not to in the Brave New World. He felt that sex accompanied love and he wanted to experience it that way. He despised soma because of the fatal effect it had on his mother, and he was disappointed to find that he had succumbed to that also. John sees most of the Brave New World’s customs as
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Watson Bernard’s,
John Lenina,
Eventually Lenina,
Epsilons Sex,
Ford’s T-model,
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World Bernard,
Henry Ford,
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delta workers,
main characters,
john savage,
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Approximate Word count = 753
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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