Brave New World
...e world state are not left to their own devices. They are given pleasures to sustain themselves as well as the stability of the nation as a whole. They do not think for themselves, nor do they know why they are living the way they live. The people are not subject to the inconvenience of loss. They do not have desires and wants, they do not experience love in it’s purest form. They are programmed, not taught. If everyone has a predetermined place in a society and are brainwashed from the very beginning of their lives, the idea of achievement is not one to enter a person’s mind. They live under a form of false consciousness, they do not realize what they want or what they believe in because they are not given the option of free thought. They are not “enlightened” and therefore do not realize that just because things appear a certain way, does not mean that they are that way. This ideology is a Marxist concept that John the Savage realizes is very existent in the World State. Mustapha Mond creates his own sort of Utilitarian society, a universal happiness derived from a conditioned control. This separates him from the people there, throughout the whole book, Savage is isolated. Even among all of the people, he is alone, an outcast. John the Savage’s life on the reservation explains his attitude towards the World State. He was isolated and ridiculed for his own mother’s morals, morals she brought to the reservation directly from the world he dislikes so much. As John explains his childhood to Bernard and Lenina, he describes the way he and his mother were treated by the people of the reservation. They called his mother Linda bad names and scowled at her willingness to sleep with men on the reservation. However, John grew up idolizing the “other place” as Linda called the World State. John is very eager to travel to this new place and leave the reservation. While on the reservation, John learns to read and he attains copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare depicts true love, and sin, the greatest abilities in people and the greatest flaws in people. John enters the new world with beliefs formed from reading these works. However, Linda, indulges herself in soma once back in the World State. The death of Linda signifies a great loss for John and enrages him. Soma serves the purpose of letting the mind go on a vacation, if by any chance anything negative might occur, soma is there to eliminate any chance of bad feeling. The World State depends on this drug to attain stability, if everyone has soma everyone will remain happy and completely oblivious. The relationship between John and Lenina is a very significant indicator of the huge difference in the two worlds. Both John and Lenin...