Brave New World 5
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel that takes place in Utopia. Yet in this ideal place everyone is conditioned to be happy, it is a place where various things such as the arts are restricted so all people will be synchronized in thinking. Love and commitment does not exist but rather everyone belongs to everyone else. This place is also a place where soma holidays help people escape from their realities and never have its society feel any kind of distress or illness. This place was not Utopia to John "the Savage," it was rather a place of hell and torment which none of the things he enjoyed and loved existed. In the novel, freedom of the individual will is one of the fundamental beliefs at the root of human ideals. While the environment or the public world (society) plays some part in forming the psyche of an individual, it is in the end, the choice of the individual (John) to be who they becomeThe whole concept of Brave New World contradicts to everything John ever believed in. John came from a world where art and expression of variation from the society existed. People must face their problems and overcome them, and love requires commitment and is greatly appreciated. John was rather a Renaissance man trapp
Unable to cope with his problems, and to end his infinite sadness, John commits suicide. His death was the result of the torment and suffering from Utopia or his own hell. His individual will slowly diminished against the pressures of Utopian ways. As a final resort John takes soma and partakes in an orgy-porgy. This was of great devastation to John. Everything, which he ever believed in, in his fight against the pressures of Utopia, was shattered in a split second. He had failed his personal egotism was defeated and the dread and horror of this defeat was overwhelming. Rather than living the rest of his life fighting Utopia and sticking with "primitive" ways of "lunacy," nor turning to the insanity of Utopia with science controlling his life, death was his third and best option to end his torment and suffering. The nature of John's conflict involves his personal beliefs and the contrasting Utopian's beliefs. Being from a world of art individuality, and literature, John is in great disappointment upon his arrival at the "boring," "ordinary" Utopian world. Art, individuality, and literature do not exist. There is lack of variation among the refined social class. Sex is rather a pastime event and is not something that is cherished or appreciated. Also, stress and illness are not felt because of "runaways" on soma holidays. All which contradict to John's person
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Approximate Word count = 931
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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