John the Savage of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is a character who has experienced major rifts in his life, preventing him from ever returning to his original state of being. John experienced such rifts in the forms of enrichment and alienation. John experienced enrichment through his mother’s teachings of the world she came from. John experienced alienation through his mother’s death and through the multiple Delta clones he witnessed.
Linda, John’s mother, spent the majority of John’s childhood teaching him of the “Other Place”. Linda described the marvels of the “Other Place” which included “lovely music that came out of a box”, “delicious things to eat and drink” and on the non tangible side, “everybody [always] happy and no one ever …show more content…
John the Savage highlighted this meaning through the enrichment and alienation brought out through his rifts. The enrichment John experienced through Linda’s teachings reflect Linda’s personal morals. This is despite the contrast in Malpais and the “Other Place”. Linda risked a cohesive Malpais life to instill morals and teachings about life to John. While John is in the “Other Place”, Linda’s death mirrors the novel’s meaning. John expressed sadness about death despite the culture that showed happiness towards it. In this society, cohesiveness is more important than morality. Individuals of the “Other Place” were conditioned to feel happy about death instead of feel the instinct way about death; sad. John broke that precedence. The nurse in this scene attempted to have John cease such behavior in order to keep up the cohesiveness. This event truly highlighted the balance between an effective, productive and cohesive society to a morality instilled society. When John saw the multiple Delta people, this highlighted the equilibrium between morality and cohesiveness. The “Other Place” uses clones to maintain cohesiveness, cloning goes against natural morality. The society placed the value of prosperity above morals in this regard
Linda, John’s mother, spent the majority of John’s childhood teaching him of the “Other Place”. Linda described the marvels of the “Other Place” which included “lovely music that came out of a box”, “delicious things to eat and drink” and on the non tangible side, “everybody [always] happy and no one ever …show more content…
John the Savage highlighted this meaning through the enrichment and alienation brought out through his rifts. The enrichment John experienced through Linda’s teachings reflect Linda’s personal morals. This is despite the contrast in Malpais and the “Other Place”. Linda risked a cohesive Malpais life to instill morals and teachings about life to John. While John is in the “Other Place”, Linda’s death mirrors the novel’s meaning. John expressed sadness about death despite the culture that showed happiness towards it. In this society, cohesiveness is more important than morality. Individuals of the “Other Place” were conditioned to feel happy about death instead of feel the instinct way about death; sad. John broke that precedence. The nurse in this scene attempted to have John cease such behavior in order to keep up the cohesiveness. This event truly highlighted the balance between an effective, productive and cohesive society to a morality instilled society. When John saw the multiple Delta people, this highlighted the equilibrium between morality and cohesiveness. The “Other Place” uses clones to maintain cohesiveness, cloning goes against natural morality. The society placed the value of prosperity above morals in this regard