Brave New World expresses and reflects the modern world using the social and self conflicts throughout the utopia world. Everyone has felt alone or confused about whom they are and where they want to be. No one can go through life without lessons learned. Huxley interpreted real life situations into this sci-fi novel. Issues about family, love, religion, and friends are all addressed and helps to get a better understanding of one self. Going through the situation is not always effective. Reading about someone elses life and what they went though can help in the future. Community, identity and stability are things everyone has concern about, whether it is sooner or later.
When John is brought into the New World he is disgusted by what he sees. It is a place where the people are essentially powerless. They have no sense of self worth or the ability to clearly think for themselves. He is from a small village where things function as it would have today. They have live births, freedom of speech and thought, and believe deeply in religion. When first introduced to John, a religious ceremony was taking place where someone from the pueblo was whipped to please Jesus. John, who was born and raised in the pueblo, was highly upset that he was not chosen to be the sacrifice. They people of the Savage Reservation disliked him because he was not one of them. He was a blonde hair blue eyed boy amongst dark hair and bronzed skin. They dislike me for my complexion. Its always been that way. Always. Tears stood in the young mans eyes; he was ashamed and turned away. (117) The only place he could call home did not even accept him. Instantly he is not apart of the community but an outcast.
Growing up with a mother form the New World, John has heard so much about it. He has always dreamed of visiting. Once there it isnt like imaged. Instantly John nothing than a mere attraction. Being over in the New World was far worst. Neither places did he fit in. At the same time he does not want to get sucked into this trap of being controlled by others and having his personal happiness taken away from him. I dont want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. (240) This quote explains how he wants to be an individual and escape this nightmare. I speak up and say it isnt right to live that way and is not about to start. He would rather be himself and have the right to make mistakes and be unhappy than to be brain washed by the government.
Bernard, an Alpha-Plus, clearly an individual, battles social pressures. He longs for powerful feelings and the capability to rebel but he can not find himself to do it. For Bernard to an Alpha-Plus he is physically different than the others which put on even more strain to what he is dealing with inside. He wants things that he can not have and is love sick. When he and Lenina took the trip to the Savage Reservation a switch in his personality became to take place.
What a wonderfully intimate relationship and what an intensity of feeling it must generate! I often think one may have missed something in not having had a mother. And perhaps youve missed something in not being a mother, Lenina. (112) Bernard knows what hes doing. He knows Lenina doesnt like what she is seeing yet he is saying these things that upset her. Bernard has become a totally different person. Once he sees John and realizes he is the son of Thomas, the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, he found it as his ticket to be popular and to finally fit in with he caste. Once John is actually in the New World he and Mustapha Mond began to bond a relationship through Shakespeares works of art. Bernard then becomes jelous. And after John causes chaos Bernard finds out he is being shipped away. He becomes frantic and breaks down crying.This is yet another side of him. Bernard quickly went through a series of emotions throughout the book.
Lenina, attracted by Bernard, but in love with John, does not know to do with herself. She is a promiscuous young woman who is unorthodox. She defies the New World by dating one man continuously yet she believes so deeply about how the government is run.
When she sees John she automatically has sexual desires. Something about the Savage draws her attention. The feelings mutual for John but he sees her in a totally different light. Lenina, fast asleep and so beautiful in the midst of her curls, so touchingly childish with her pink toes and her grave sleeping face. (143) John sees her as innocent and pure. He is curious and tempted but he does not want to defy everything he thinks she is not in favor of. Lenina can not wait and she moves too quickly, too soon for John. He is horrified that she is this way. Stability is hard for Lenina because how she has been raised. Those things are not wrong. It just isnt possible for her.
Life goes on and does not to for anyone. It gets hard sometimes but remembering what you have been through and knowing about others helps to reflect on how far you have come. We all have a point in our lives where we do not fit in or not feel wanted or needed. We have been confused about who we are. And some of us are still searching. We have been unstable and did not know which direction to go. There is not just one person who feels this why. That is why we work together to help one another out. We all need a little help, whether we want to admit it or not.
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