What Does John Symbolize In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley uses John the Savage to represents how people in today’s society would behave and react to the society that he created in Brave New World. John is so distressed that he is driven to commit suicide in Huxley’s Brave New World in London because of people’s inability to want more, and strive for something better. John represents the common respected man in today’s society, but in the Brave New World he is an outsider, and different from everyone else. Huxley uses John to demonstrate the flaws and strengths of society's views on suffering, isolation, and sex.

John does not fit in with either of the societies that he encounters. John is the last natural born London child in the New World. Children at the reservation are natural born,

Suffering shows people the good, and makes them appreciate what they have. The society that Huxley created shows what society would be like if there was no suffering. Everyone is happy with their place in society, and no one knows pain or discomfort. Huxley also creates a drug called soma, that allows people to escape if any of these problems were to arise. Since John was raised on the reservation, he understands and desires pain and suffering. He cannot see a world without it, and think that it makes life worth living. Huxley uses John to show how people in today’s society would view this world he has created. Although many humans dream of a world where they would feel no pain, and everything is easy, and requires no effort, they would not be able to survive, and would seek the pain they once knew. People need hardships to overcome, without it there would be no forward progress and people would not know true happiness. John wants pain, and creates situation that allow him to experience it. When John is talking to the controller he

People are encouraged to have sex, and start at a very young age. Anyone can have sex with whomever they want, and it is purely to fulfil desires and not for reproduction. When Brave New World was written, birth control was on the rise, and people were starting to have sex without trying to recreate. The society in Huxley’s era encourages the suppression of human desires, and believes that sex should only be for reproduction, however with the creating of birth control this view started to change. Today’s society people have sex for desire, but encourages people to have a committed relationship with their partner before sex. When Lenina goes to John and tells him that she wants to have sex with him, he confesses his love for her. Lenina is overjoyed and excited to finally have sex with John. John. however, feels like he has to earn her, and thinks that they have to commit to each other. John tells her how people in Malpais get married. He says “For always. They make a promise to live together for always” (Huxley 129). John thinks that they have to commit, but Lenina does not, and is disgusted by the thought of marriage. Huxley is showing what could happen if society continued to disconnect sex and reproduction. Most people in today’s society do not think that children needs to have sex, and believe that people show commitment to one person before having sex in adulthood. The thought of infants and toddlers having sex is