A Brave New World Exile Analysis

In the novel Brave New World the development of sleep-learning, reproductive technology, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning are combined together to change the order of society. Based in London in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford) a local Indian Reservation holds a young man by the name of John, who himself deals with exile both indirectly and directly. Since day one of his life John is exiled indirectly, as he grows up he becomes more of an outcast resulting in a direct exile. Both forms of exile pull at John as they eventually lead him to an unfortunate death caused by suicide. John’s mother, Linda, was a sexual object to the men of Malpais and being this John suffered from the natives at Malpais. Being both white and the only known person born of natural birth John encounters indirect exile as he suffers mentally from others throughout the book. John constantly felt alone no matter how many times he was hurt, he had never cried because of the pain but because he was alone. “The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for the pain that he sobbed; it was because he was all alone,

John’s normality and everyday actions are not common to the civilized people and find his ways very wild like. They do not see John as proper as they believe he should be, instead he is ‘savage’. To the Indians in the reservation John is also seen as an outcast, he is seen as an outcast do to his mother’s actions and valuing the ways of “civilization”. The women in the reservation hated his mother do to her acting in the sense of a whore, while the kids did not like her values to “civilization”. For this John is an outcast for both “worlds” in the story. "But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…" (page chapter