Brave New World How do you view freedom? How do I view freedom? How does anyone view freedom? Those are questions for another day, today we will be answering other questions. How do characters in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; such as The Savage, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson; view freedom? A quick answer to that question is they all view freedom in a different way. Though, more in depth answer is coming your way. How does John, the Savage, view freedom? He, unlike most other characters, actually knows what freedom is. He views it the way he should, having the freedom to do anything you wish aside from anything rude or sinful. In his eyes, he is free. Society is what traps us, so Savagery frees us; this is what he feels. None of the people in society are free, they are trapped in the constricting chains of soma and despair. This makes the meaning of his work divine to a degree. The work he does, he does because he feels it is his duty to do for the divine powers he believes in. He believes in those divine powers because he has the freedom to. This makes the work he does …show more content…
Can he even have a view on the matter? In his eyes and the eyes of society, yes. But, if you were to ask John this same thing about Helmholtz, he would say no. Helmholtz thinks society is great and has no doubts about it, so he does feel freedom. The freedom that he believes he feels, though, is something different. He thinks freedom means the freedom to sleep with anyone, to take soma, to be happy, and to do whatever he wishes. That is not real freedom to John, but to Helmholtz, it is. This way of viewing freedom makes the work not really worth anything special. He works to serve the purpose of society and to get soma. But, he does not feel any great satisfaction for this. He has been programmed since childhood that he needs to work and take soma so there is no real gratification in his