Brave New World
“O brave new world that has such people in it. Let’s start at once.” John said these words as he entered the helicopter that would take him out of the Savage Reservation. John repeats this quote many times throughout the novel. In this first instance John says this almost jokingly and light-hearted, eager to see and experience the brave new world. Later the tone in which he says the quote drastically changes. John was born in the Savage Reservation, in New Mexico, to Linda, who had lived in the New World and was abandoned in the reservation. We first meet John in the seventh chapter of Brave New World. He is described as a young boy, dressed in Indian attire, with “straw-colored” hair, pale blue eyes, and light-colored skin. The total opposite appearance of a normal savage. John’s life on the reservation was one of misery. He was not accepted by the other savages and was very confused by the actions of his mother. During his stay at the reservation John was isolated and desired for something better. John finally received this chance when Bernard Marx offered to take he and his mother back to London. John may have thought he was entering a better society, but in realism he was about to experience something far
John concludes that solitude is the only way he can experience religion and escape the totalitarian society. After being denied permission to move to Iceland with Bernard and Helmholtz, John finds a secluded lighthouse to live in. The first night he prays to his Gods in repentance. He had finally found religion and escaped the New World. John changes drastically while living in the lighthouse. He becomes masochistic and angry when he thinks of Lenina, the woman he loved in the New World. His psychological change is shown through his masochistic acts: running through a thorn bush, beating himself, and whipping himself. When he is finally discovered a massive, chanting crowd forms outside the lighthouse and all of his psychological and emotional anger and misery is released. He runs through the crowd and repeatedly whips Lenina. The crowd goes into a hysteria and end up in a massive orgy. John, caught up in the hysteria, unwittingly joined the orgy. The next morning, having realized what took place, John’s emotional crescendo exploded. In the final scene the crowd storms the lighthouse looking for John only to find that he had committed suicide by hanging himself. John couldn’t adapt to the Brave New World. He knew w
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