Imagine a world where one is conditioned to appear, live, and think in a certain way. Life itself is given to one through the use of technology and newly formed sciences. If one is to question or repudiate the conditioning he or she has received, he or she will be considered unorthodox by society. In this world, unorthodoxy is illegal and comes with severe consequences. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, John The Savage is unorthodox in many ways including his physical appearance, his emotional state and beliefs, and his way of thinking.
John The Savage is different from the rest of the population in many different ways. When he lived on the Savage Reservation, he was the only white man in the tribe. This made him an outcast of society. …show more content…
He is the only person in the World State other than Mustapha Mond to read Shakespeare. When John asked if the citizens read any works of Shakespeare, Dr. Gaffney replied, “Our library, contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don't encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements" (Huxley 163). Being that Shakespeare is outlawed in the World State makes John like it more because now he can use it as a way to accomplish solitude. When compared to the different social classes, John The Savage has a wider variety of knowledge than most of them combined. Due to the fact that all of the social classes of the World State have been conditioned to learn and behave different ways, they have the inability to possess some information and knowledge that John has. John also knows that soma is just a method of crowd control. John tries to tell the citizens what he knows, but because everyone is so conditioned, they refuse to listen to him. Mustapha Mond’s response to John’s actions of rebellion in the name of liberty goes as follows, “The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma” (Huxley 220). The citizens of the World State never have to worry or know that anything is ever bad in the world simply because they have access to soma. John The Savage is so aware and intellectual of what is going on in the World State, he tells Mustapha Mond, “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want
John The Savage is different from the rest of the population in many different ways. When he lived on the Savage Reservation, he was the only white man in the tribe. This made him an outcast of society. …show more content…
He is the only person in the World State other than Mustapha Mond to read Shakespeare. When John asked if the citizens read any works of Shakespeare, Dr. Gaffney replied, “Our library, contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don't encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements" (Huxley 163). Being that Shakespeare is outlawed in the World State makes John like it more because now he can use it as a way to accomplish solitude. When compared to the different social classes, John The Savage has a wider variety of knowledge than most of them combined. Due to the fact that all of the social classes of the World State have been conditioned to learn and behave different ways, they have the inability to possess some information and knowledge that John has. John also knows that soma is just a method of crowd control. John tries to tell the citizens what he knows, but because everyone is so conditioned, they refuse to listen to him. Mustapha Mond’s response to John’s actions of rebellion in the name of liberty goes as follows, “The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma” (Huxley 220). The citizens of the World State never have to worry or know that anything is ever bad in the world simply because they have access to soma. John The Savage is so aware and intellectual of what is going on in the World State, he tells Mustapha Mond, “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want