John the Savage's New World

Brave New World Essay In Brave New World, John the Savage willfully exiles himself from the reservation, where he was born and raised, in order to travel to the new world; because of his passion for learning and this twisted idea of becoming happy through his acceptance. Aldous Huxley has written a novel where the main character experiences a type of exile that is tragically unhealable while being beneficial. John’s experiences in the world state were enriching; however, they were even more alienating and they ended up being so potent that it eventually pushed John to his early demise. John’s exile was stimulating because of his discovery that truth and happiness are incompatible. He is faced with the idea that he will not be completely accepted by others because of how he is unlike anyone in the utopian society. His self-value was based on how others perceived him, his exile allowed him to see that his value should not be found in others. Upon their arrival to the World State, Bernard begins to parade John around to the other citizens in order to gain popularity. John recognizes the fact that the imaginary happiness that he has created for himself in the new world is fake, he decides that he “rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness” that Bernard has from his newfound social status (Huxley 179). John becomes disturbed by the culture; he begins to accept the fact that these people only want to meet him because of how different he is from them. John’s exile was educational and allowed him to see veracity; however, his outcast was even more destructive to him because of how it shatters his beliefs, the way it isolates him from the citizens in the world state, how he feels that he was contaminated by their society, and overall it distances himself even further from anyone from either of his two worlds. His newfound perspective altered the manner he interpreted everything in its entirety and unfortunately his transformation of