Brave New World
John seems to be the main character in this book, the one most readers will relate to and most likely interpret as the hero. Linda and the Director begot John during a trip to the savage reservation where Linda became pregnant, which is a very rare event. She injured herself falling off a cliff and thus became lost causing her to miss her trip back to London and then stayed with the Indians where she gave birth to John. Ultimately, he is a mix of the Utopian culture, an Indian culture, and the beloved Shakespeare. This character interprets the world the way Aldous Huxley would, and being a person able to understand his old Indian life, and this new Utopian life, he seems to be the only one capable to make unbiased judgments about the world. She is a psychologically and physically conditioned Beta, which makes her unable to adapt to the conditions of living with the Indians on the savage reservation when she gets stranded there. Because of this, she is rejected by many of the people, mainly by the women for she slept with their husbands. Without the technology of the Utopian world, it became impossible for her to keep her physical appearan
The climax of book gradually builds that include many events throughout chapter sixteen and seventeen. During chapter sixteen, John the Savage and Mustapha Mond have a pretty interesting conversation. Mond starts talking about the forbidden subjects like Shakespeare and even goes into why some of the things that occur in this Utopia occur, like the reason different castes of people are made. They converse about many things, and every time John brings up a good point, Mond is there to counter it. Mainly, they talk about religion, God, and the moral values of this community. This conversation is very heated and many beliefs of John and the new and old beliefs of Mond are expressed. After this conversation, John and Mond just leave each other with a "shrug", but John is left to think about the things he has learned, committed, and would have committed and thus begins his isolation of the community, or so he thinks. Another theme that is shown in the book is about using psychological methods in order to train or condition people. The story tells how techniques were used such as hypnopaedia and frankly, brainwashing the people from day one of their "births." Also, some other methods are electrocuting the children in order to train them into hating certain things in life. In one scene, the Director gives a tour and exclaims, "And now," the Director shouted (for the noise was deafening), "now we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock." After showing the children certain items, they were shocked and now trained to hate those same items, such techniques would be considered harmful today, but it doesn't seem so in their society. There are many themes in this book and more can be thought up easily. One of the prominent themes is the idea of individual freedom versus social conformity. The Utopia presented shows a world where social conformity is deeply favored. This book shows the disadvantages and the advantages of having a community wherein a higher power decides how things should be run. These advantages and disadvantages are mainly the author's thoughts and feelings portrayed through John the Savage. As John wakes the next day, he realizes what he has done and he thinks he may of killed Lenina and hatred overcomes him and he hangs himself, and a dangling corpse greets the spectators as they come to view him again, and here ends the story. "People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, no children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave." Lenina is John's love interest throughout the book, however she is something much more. She is the physical form of John's struggle between body and spirit. Though John loves her, Lenina cannot understand why he will not sleep with her, which is her natural tendency to do with almost everyone she meets. She will b
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Approximate Word count = 2103
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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