The concept of home can be portrayed as a physical place or a state of mind, but either form will have a considerable impact on the individual of which it influences. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s physical departure from Malpais does not serve to diminish the traditional values that he adopts from his home while he finds the values in the World State immoral and revolting, portraying that two juxtaposing sets of values may not be able to exist together. Although John is born to two people from the World State, his true values lie in the Reservation and pre-Nine Years’ War concepts, mainly due to his lack of conditioning that is crucial to integration in the World State. Linda attempted to condition him, but all she can offer
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When forced to face stressful situations, recites Shakespeare as both his guidelines to life and as a coping mechanism. He refuses to make love with Lenina despite his intense attraction to her, but this attraction and lust portrays the inability of the values of the World State and the values of Malpais are unable to co-exist. John has continuous internal struggles about his attraction and his ability to restrain himself. He fantasizes about Lenina, but belittles himself with Shakespeare once he is out of the daydream. This internalized conflict eventually manifests to the extreme when Lenina undresses in front of him, trying to seduce him, and he lashes out and hurts her. The inablilty to co-exist is also portrays when he attempts to reason with the Controler on the reasonings behind retiring the values that John holds so closes to him. John is able to feel on as if he is on level grounds with the Controler due to his own knowledge of Shakespeare. But Mond is able to refute by claiming that with the way that society in the World State is structured. those values are unnecessary. The people would not be able to grasp the concepts of Shakespeare because the concepts offered in Shakespeare, such as family, love, and infidelity, no longer exist. As Shakespeare is considered John’s connection to home and as a
When forced to face stressful situations, recites Shakespeare as both his guidelines to life and as a coping mechanism. He refuses to make love with Lenina despite his intense attraction to her, but this attraction and lust portrays the inability of the values of the World State and the values of Malpais are unable to co-exist. John has continuous internal struggles about his attraction and his ability to restrain himself. He fantasizes about Lenina, but belittles himself with Shakespeare once he is out of the daydream. This internalized conflict eventually manifests to the extreme when Lenina undresses in front of him, trying to seduce him, and he lashes out and hurts her. The inablilty to co-exist is also portrays when he attempts to reason with the Controler on the reasonings behind retiring the values that John holds so closes to him. John is able to feel on as if he is on level grounds with the Controler due to his own knowledge of Shakespeare. But Mond is able to refute by claiming that with the way that society in the World State is structured. those values are unnecessary. The people would not be able to grasp the concepts of Shakespeare because the concepts offered in Shakespeare, such as family, love, and infidelity, no longer exist. As Shakespeare is considered John’s connection to home and as a