John The Savage In Brave New World

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Aldous Huxley develops the character of John the Savage in Brave New World in order to lead to the theme of how John the Savage overcame the alienation forced upon him and how his life came to be more enriching as time went on. Huxley illustrates the life of the Savage by conveying the positive and negative sides affected by his mother, people around him in the tribe, and his religious views. As John was a child he suffered from pain through his mother’s actions with the men of Malpais she seemed to be very promiscuous and this not only separated him from the others, but also made John stronger. He was still bleeding, he had been cut, and was all alone, (Pg, 136). For John to be bleeding this means that he had been hurt in a way that lingered

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