In the novel Brave New World Aldous Huxely paints a satiric vision of a “utopian” future of what could happen if society continues on its path of meaningless physical pleasure and false happiness. The people of this fictional world, as portrayed by Huxely, lack spiritual values and only live to serve a ruling order. In a world where the words father and mother are taboo, love and heartbreak are absent in this society and mankind have become a meaningless, shallow husk of itself. These people are challenged when John, a “savage” with a mother born to this society, enters their society for the reason of scientific interest. When John meets the people of this brave new world he is shocked, unlike him these people feel no need for true companionship, …show more content…
We learned this when John confesses his love to Lenina and she is only interested in sex “For always. They make a promise to live together for always.” “What a horrible idea!” Lenina was genuinely shocked.” (Huxely 191). Later in this scene while Lenina pressured John for sex, he physical threatens her. He realizes that she does not love him and he turns her away. In addition to a difference in moral code, John and the people of the new world differ in values. John seeks true companionship, love, and commitment because he has never truly known it. His mother was a drunk and found him to be an abomination, she neglected and beat him which has only made him want it more. When Bernard said that he could take John to the “other place” he was excited to at the idea of people who might accept him. However he did not find companionship, love, and commitment in this new place, when he arrived in this brave new world he sadly found that the people of this society were perfectly happy with meaningless physical pleasure and synthetic contentment induced by drugs. Multiple times John tried to cleanse himself “Now I am purified,” said the Savage. “I drank some mustard and warm water.” (Huxely 242), ironically, he found peace in what little solitude he had when he ran