A Brave New World Essay

Brave New World Character Analysis Lily Christensen John the Savage In the novel Brave New World, John is the World State’s greatest nightmare, and causes the utmost problems for what they believe to be their perfect society. He has flaws, family, identity, feelings, morals, and a uniqueness to him that nobody else in the World State possesses. He is an important aspect to this novel in a sense that he helps the reader understand what living in the World State is like, and how he can relate to the world today. Because John wasn’t born in the World State, he brings ideas and aspects of himself and his background to the civilians living in the there. He represents reality and the society of the world today.

Have you ever encountered someone whose life endured a great amount of disillusion or failure? These aspects relate to each other-one might cause the other- and create tragedy. Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman the main characters in the books The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller both lived lives that did not meet their own goals. Both Willy and Gatsby created their own destruction when their chances at achieving their objectives were unattainable. Willy Loman lived a more tragic life because of the constant change he wanted to achieve that never played out in his favor.

People weren’t truly equal in Harrison Bergeron because the methods or devices used for handicapping didn’t take anything away from the story’s people’s true selves. Harrison Bergeron was still a genius, and George Bergeron was still a smart person. The Handicapper General really didn’t make anyone equal. He just made life worse for everyone, and he attempted to take away people’s talents and strengths that God gave them. Although no one was ever truly equal in Harrison Bergeron, people still had difficult lives, and people were not able to use what God gave

Richard has always felt the unjust of race, and has felt how segregation made it hard for him to have a future. But when he gets a chance to get revenge on the whites, he refuses when he thinks ”Who wanted to look them straight in the face, who wanted to walk and act like a man. (200)” Stealing went against his morals of the right way to succeed and would not help the community appearance to the whites. The community as a whole is very religous but Richard does not share these beliefs, even with the persistence of his friends and family he says ”Mama, I don't feel a thing. (155)” This caused his friends to beg him, but in face of rejection they leave him alone.

To overcome his defeat he improved his armies and worked even harder for mastery of the Baltic. He was not liked for this because he strived so much for this goal that he only focused on that one achievement. He did not share his power with anyone at all, which helps characterize him as an absolute

Also, John was born in the barbaric society but he doesn’t belong there, but he is also viewed as an outcast in the Brave New World society because of his unnatural, natural birth. Here he is judged for his mother 's indiscretions and so he is not allowed to do anything the other boys in the reservation do.

They cried for freedom, they screamed for the chance to go their own way. Over the years, they have suffered and suffered because of the ignorance of their monarch, because of his disregard for their welfare. The civilians of this fair nation wanted someone who would bring change, they wanted someone who listens to the people. Overall, they wanted someone who would treat them as how they should be, not a ruler who let them wallow in their own filth and die of easily treatable illnesses. That was only half of it though.

Huxley feared that eventually nobody would know the truth about the world because they would become so oblivious and the truth would become irrelevant. This is evident in Brave New World with the well known saying, “history is bunk.” Nobody in the novel wants to learn about the past because the society has made it undesirable to do so. Instead, they focus on the present and improving for the future. Another example of Postman’s assertion in the book is the fact that nobody reads. Mustapha Mond explains to John that books are prohibited because these people “couldn’t understand it.” I see this in society today as well.

By insisting that “nothing is more damaging,” McCandless shows frustration towards the secure lifestyles of the vast majority of people around the world. His use of the word “nothing” indicates that McCandless sees men’s pursuit of security, something most people reach for in the modern age, as something that absolutely kills off the spirit for adventure. To stress this point, McCandless describes how people live within “unhappy circumstances” but fail to take the initiative to change their life because they are “conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism” (57). By incorporating catalog, precisely the phrase “security, conformity, and conservatism,” McCandless is able to magnify the extent to which men are confined and shackled by a tedious and repetitive life. By mentioning the fact that many men are living within “unhappy circumstances”, McCandless also shows that the status under which the vast majority of the world is living fails to satisfy the needs of most humans.

This emotional side of Nwoye causes him to be beaten and eventually leading to him snapping and making major life decisions. Nwoye, did not agree the Ibo culture. It is a superstition in their culture that having twins is evil. So, to