Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Significance of John in Brave New World :: Brave New World

The Significance of caper in Brave sunrise(prenominal) World   In Brave New World, there are triplet societies the civilize federation of Bernard and Mustapha Mond, the savage society of John and Linda, and the old society, which is not explicitly in the book notwithstanding is described by the geeks. These societies are vastly different. The old society is twentieth century Western society the cultured society creates people and conditions them for cheer and stability and the savage society is truly far behind the civilized society technologically, and is very religious. John is a very important character in the novel because he represents the link between all three of these societies. Johns mother was created in the civilized society and lived there until John was by the bye conceived. She had to move to the savage society, and John was born and raised there. John had a radio link to civilized society from an early age from hearing stories from his mother. He also came across a book of Shakespeare and by reading it, acquire about old society. These however, are just preliminary connections for the bridges that pass on soon be built.   The adult John comes to civilized society as an experiment by Marx and Mond to see how a savage would adapt to civilization. Frankly, he does not adapt very well. He is appalled by the lifestyle and ideas of civilized people, and gets himself into a lot of trouble by denouncing civilization. He loves Lenina very much, but gets very upset at her when she wants to have sex with him. He physically attacks her, and from that point on does not want to have anything to do with her. When his mother dies, he interferes with the death conditioning of children by being sad. Finally, his frustrations with the civilized world become too much for him and he decides to take action. He tries to be a sort of a Messiah to a base of Deltas, trying to free them from the effect of soma. He tells them only the truth, but i t is not the truth that the Deltas have been conditioned to be consistve, so to them it is a violent lie and they begin to cause a riot. When the riot is subdued, John is apprehended and interpreted to have a talk with Mustapha Mond.   This talk with Mustapha Mond is very enlightening for John, and it creates his connection with the old society.

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