HOW A CHARACTER CAN BE DEFINED BY HIS SURROUNDINGS
Have you ever caught yourself saying or doing something so stereotypically linked to the place where you live? It happens, and it is funny think that something so simple as born in certain region or in certain time period can affect in both direct and indirect ways, our personalities and views on the world. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and by telling the stories of John Savage, Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, Lenina Crowe, and Mustapha Mond, it is proved that the characters’ personalities, values, dreams, expectations, and way to react to situations are shaped by the place where they live, the time in which the novel takes place, and how the society of the New World is represented. …show more content…
Most of the characters in the novel are from the New World, however, when we meet John Savage we realize that his views on certain things are very different from other character’s views. John was born and raised in the Savage Reservation, where way of life of the people is completely different from way of life in the New World; because of this, when John is taken to the New World he feels disgusted by how the people act and the views the have on what happiness; John can never adapt to the life in the New World, and that ends up killing him. A similar case but on the opposite side is Linda, John’s mother, she was born in the New World, however one day she was kidnapped by the savages and forced to live in the Reservation; Linda fell into a vortex of bad habits, and without the commodities of the New World she turned into an alcoholic and her health declines quickly. On the complete opposite side of the spectrum we have Mustapha Mond, who has always lived on the New World, Mond is convinced that the way in which he and the rest of the New World’s society lives is the best way to live, because they are happy and in his words. All this examples show us how the place where a character lives and gets used to is a fundamental part on how that character acts and what he or she believes in.
Another thing that affects how the characters …show more content…
In Brave New World, the main characters fall into two sides of the spectrum; they either fully embrace or rebel somehow against the society in which the live. One example of this is Bernard Marx, Bernard has the highest caste in the New World −Alpha Plus− however, he is shorter and thinner than the other Alphas, and people think that “Somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle […] and put alcohol in his blood-surrogate” (46). Because of this, and because Bernard does not share many of the values that the people around him have he is an outcast in the society, which eventually makes him choose to forget his ideals in order to be accepted by the rest. A similar case to Bernard is Helmholtz Watson, Helmholtz is the perfect ideal ̶ physical and mental ̶ of a perfect individual; but he does not care about that, he wants to do real science and not just what he’s instructed to do, when he’s called to Mond’s office he expresses his toughts about the technology in the New World by saying “But they go such a little way. They aren 't important enough, somehow. I feel I could do something much more important. Yes, and more intense, more violent.” This is a clear example that Helmholtz don’t want to be just like the other members of the society that conforms to what they are taught. And finally we have Lenina, a girl with a progressive mind and
Have you ever caught yourself saying or doing something so stereotypically linked to the place where you live? It happens, and it is funny think that something so simple as born in certain region or in certain time period can affect in both direct and indirect ways, our personalities and views on the world. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and by telling the stories of John Savage, Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, Lenina Crowe, and Mustapha Mond, it is proved that the characters’ personalities, values, dreams, expectations, and way to react to situations are shaped by the place where they live, the time in which the novel takes place, and how the society of the New World is represented. …show more content…
Most of the characters in the novel are from the New World, however, when we meet John Savage we realize that his views on certain things are very different from other character’s views. John was born and raised in the Savage Reservation, where way of life of the people is completely different from way of life in the New World; because of this, when John is taken to the New World he feels disgusted by how the people act and the views the have on what happiness; John can never adapt to the life in the New World, and that ends up killing him. A similar case but on the opposite side is Linda, John’s mother, she was born in the New World, however one day she was kidnapped by the savages and forced to live in the Reservation; Linda fell into a vortex of bad habits, and without the commodities of the New World she turned into an alcoholic and her health declines quickly. On the complete opposite side of the spectrum we have Mustapha Mond, who has always lived on the New World, Mond is convinced that the way in which he and the rest of the New World’s society lives is the best way to live, because they are happy and in his words. All this examples show us how the place where a character lives and gets used to is a fundamental part on how that character acts and what he or she believes in.
Another thing that affects how the characters …show more content…
In Brave New World, the main characters fall into two sides of the spectrum; they either fully embrace or rebel somehow against the society in which the live. One example of this is Bernard Marx, Bernard has the highest caste in the New World −Alpha Plus− however, he is shorter and thinner than the other Alphas, and people think that “Somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle […] and put alcohol in his blood-surrogate” (46). Because of this, and because Bernard does not share many of the values that the people around him have he is an outcast in the society, which eventually makes him choose to forget his ideals in order to be accepted by the rest. A similar case to Bernard is Helmholtz Watson, Helmholtz is the perfect ideal ̶ physical and mental ̶ of a perfect individual; but he does not care about that, he wants to do real science and not just what he’s instructed to do, when he’s called to Mond’s office he expresses his toughts about the technology in the New World by saying “But they go such a little way. They aren 't important enough, somehow. I feel I could do something much more important. Yes, and more intense, more violent.” This is a clear example that Helmholtz don’t want to be just like the other members of the society that conforms to what they are taught. And finally we have Lenina, a girl with a progressive mind and