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John Brave New World Analysis
In the Book, Brave New World, we meet a character known for being a “noble savage,” John. John is the child of Linda and The Director, who was born and raised in the Reservation, a savage land, in New Mexico. John was raised in a since of freedom, he could read, he was free to choose and think for himself, and he had the ability to think for himself. John is brought to the new world by Bernard Marx and quickly becomes wrapped up in this new strange world.
John learns, near the end of the book, the truth about the society from Mustapha, that religion and works of literature have been abolished because of economic instability, and because it caused free thinking among a society that has basically become slaves to their leaders and physical needs.

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