John The Savage Character Analysis

Imagine a world where everyone is happy. Every person is biologically designed to love their job and be grateful for everything that life has provided for them. They are never jealous of what others have because they are blinded by their own happiness. This describes the world that Aldous Huxley has created in his novel Brave New World. Brave New World is about a futuristic society where everyone is not birthed but rather grown in a test tube within a scientific lab. Children are then raised and mentally trained in a community nursery with other children in their predetermined social class. Social class is important. Alphas are supposed to be the smartest and the strongest but this is where our main character, Bernard Marx, falls short, literally.
John the Savage is a boy who was brought back from the savage reservation in the United States by Bernard Marx. John the Savage is considered unorthodox in both of the communities he becomes a part of. In the savage reservation he is unlike the others because he looks different from them. He has pale skin and blue eyes, which is strange and peculiar. When John the Savage travels back to the World State in England with Bernard Marx he realizes that he does not belong within this community either because his beliefs are very different from those who live in this dystopian society. It is difficult for him to grasp the concept of “everyone belonging to everyone” because he grew up far away with a completely different set of morals. These morals make him unorthodox because he has contrasting opinions from the rest of the people, “And as though awakened by her cry he caught her by the shoulders and shook her. ‘Whore!’ he shouted. ‘Whore! Impudent strumpet!’” (Huxley 194). John the Savage also thinks that soma, the “perfect drug” is bad which is contrary to the popular belief. Everyone in this new society relies on soma whenever they start to feel sadness or stress and John urges them to stop taking soma and experience these