When John the Savage is introduced to The Brave New World, he sees this civilized society’s philosophy and practices are too different from the savaged world where he comes from. This new world praises Ford rather than God, values machinery and rationality over humanism and emotion. He quickly realizes this civilization’s motto: community, identity and stability are the causes of difference compare to his original world, making him see the World State is even more savaged than his own world.
In the World State, the society promotes a strong community, or more precise, communitarian. The slogan “everyone belongs to anyone else” is repeating several times to remind people that they are a part of this big communion. Since religion usually is …show more content…
There is emotion and care that shared among family member, for example: breast-feeding and combing hair (Huxley 106). There is religion and religion rituals because they believe in God. They keep themselves cleanse through pain and blood, and find peace through rituals. John believes pain is a way to get back to his origin, staying away from the influence of any addiction. Sex in the Savaged world means the passion and commitment between a male and female, a private personal connection in the relationship, having sex with multiple people seems to be abnormal and immoral which treated as a crime that leads to punishment. Linda, John’s mom, who comes from the civilized society, doesn’t understand this concept and get punished for her “civilized” action (Huxley 119). John sees people in the World State have sex to accommodate social acceptable behavior without emotion or reason as animals not …show more content…
In order to make the World State stable, according to Mond, people need to be happy, get what they want (or rather what the State want), are well off, safe, never ill, not afraid of death, ignore passion, comfortable without parents, have no one to love, and behave as what the State demand (Huxley 198-199). By stripping away all individualism and values of human through oppressing and predestinating under the benefit of society, the perfection of stability is achieved. However John doesn’t want stability. John sees the price for stability is too great that he cannot gives up his power of free choice, free thinking, religion, art and emotion to pay for stability. He states: “I want God, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, sin…I’m claiming the right to be unhappy” (Huxley
In the World State, the society promotes a strong community, or more precise, communitarian. The slogan “everyone belongs to anyone else” is repeating several times to remind people that they are a part of this big communion. Since religion usually is …show more content…
There is emotion and care that shared among family member, for example: breast-feeding and combing hair (Huxley 106). There is religion and religion rituals because they believe in God. They keep themselves cleanse through pain and blood, and find peace through rituals. John believes pain is a way to get back to his origin, staying away from the influence of any addiction. Sex in the Savaged world means the passion and commitment between a male and female, a private personal connection in the relationship, having sex with multiple people seems to be abnormal and immoral which treated as a crime that leads to punishment. Linda, John’s mom, who comes from the civilized society, doesn’t understand this concept and get punished for her “civilized” action (Huxley 119). John sees people in the World State have sex to accommodate social acceptable behavior without emotion or reason as animals not …show more content…
In order to make the World State stable, according to Mond, people need to be happy, get what they want (or rather what the State want), are well off, safe, never ill, not afraid of death, ignore passion, comfortable without parents, have no one to love, and behave as what the State demand (Huxley 198-199). By stripping away all individualism and values of human through oppressing and predestinating under the benefit of society, the perfection of stability is achieved. However John doesn’t want stability. John sees the price for stability is too great that he cannot gives up his power of free choice, free thinking, religion, art and emotion to pay for stability. He states: “I want God, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, sin…I’m claiming the right to be unhappy” (Huxley