Margaret Atwood's Brave New World

“Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?” This quote by Margaret Atwood goes hand in hand with Brave New World for numerous characters; including Bernard Marx the alpha who has strange and different beliefs and John the savage who grew up in a world that is extremely different from the London's World State. Which shows that the World State thinks that people who are different, or things that are open to interpretation, are needed to be removed. Likewise shown within Brave New World even in a seemingly perfectly put together society there are flaws and downfalls. One of the many themes of society’s downfalls in Brave New World can be perceived as the

They have a very non-monogamy kind of civilization that most readers are not used to seeing. Which is to the point where if there ever would be someone who does not factor correctly into the collective group so individuals like Marx and Watson who were different to the point where the two were kicked out for the World State’s goood. A reaction to said non-monogamy and group mentality is see through a quote by the savage John when he states “I ate civilization” (241). Which is interpreted that in the context was that kind of civilization that the world state is disgusting and exhausting him to the point where he doesn't want to be there anymore. It's the effect that the lack of expression is doing. For example, take into account all of the soma that the inhabitants of the World State take it's enough to shorten their lives to roughly forty years. Deep down everyone is missing expression and individuality in their lives but there told that is normal and that when they feel off to take