Freedom In Brave New World

Brave New World really made people think about freedoms and what exactly is freedom. Throughout the book there are many examples of the cast of the story, a majority of which are John the Savage, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson, urging to become free from the society they lived in. Unfortunately, despite how they all felt about their own societies they really see how terrible it is on the other side. John dislikes the utopian society for being too conditioned and being sinful by his own society’s standards. While Bernard is repulsed by some of the things he sees at the Savage Reservation for going against his conditioning of sanitariness and polyamory. This contradiction between what the characters wanted and what they actually get serves

No one freedom is preferable than another because the feeling of freedom is all subjective in the case of the “Brave New World” since society dictates the characters decisions and can even be argued to drive the plot of the overall story.
Society has many rules and standards that a single individual cannot control. When a person grows up with a certain society's rules and standards they will be conditioned to follow those rules. For example, in other countries such as Mali, its society believes women should be married at an early age and should face genital mutilation. Meanwhile, in the United States, such acts are outlawed and hugely frowned upon. In the “Brave New World” John is not happy about his role in the reservation. He is mocked, ignored, and bored at the reservation for having his mother, Linda, born of a

He wanted acceptance from his fellow alphas, he wanted authority, he wanted real happiness and freedom from society's rules and standards. Bernard got all of that when he brought back John to the World State and his entire situation changed. Bernard has finally been accepted into the society that has mocked him all his life he was free from the prejudice and standards of his society. However, he was never truly free since what he did was basically show how bad he wanted to be shaped and thought of as an excellent example of a World State citizen. According to Huxley, “And as it was only through Bernard, his accredited guardian, that John could be seen, Bernard now found himself, for the first time in his life, treated not merely normally, but as a person of outstanding importance.”(pg.156) The complete change of Bernard’s life from being a short-tempered, paranoid, sad man to after when he was happy and carefree, having more sex with more people which goes against his monogamy vibe from the beginning of the story. That all changed back in the end of “Brave New World” when his fame was cut short by John when he refused to go to the