Brave New World essay (topic exile)

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley we can find interesting characters. Such characters are Bernard Marx and John the savage. These two characters experience exile and they have alienating and enriching experiences. These two guys are different from every single person in the World State.

In the World State humans don’t know how it feels to have feelings like love, sadness, happiness and many others. Humans consume a drug called soma this drug is use by the government to control its population. Soma sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts people form realizing that something is wrong in the world they live in.  Also reading books and self thinking are prohibited. People in the World State don’t know what having a family means. The government is behind everything they basically have their citizens enslaved.  Fortunately not everyone in the world state lives enslaved there are a few people who are different. Those different people are Bernard Marx and John the savage.

Bernard Marx belongs to the group of the alphas. Many others we think he is different just because of his inferior physical structure. There are a few things that make him different from everyone else. Bernard doesn’t consume soma because he wants to be able to feel. He also spends most of his time self thinking by himself. These actions put him at risk of losing his job. Not only that also a bigger risk which is being exiled to Iceland. However he is trap in the middle at some point he wants to be different but on the other side society pressures him. By being different he is not accepted by others, he is also seeing as someone weird by everybody. He has an internal conflict with himself that makes him feel exiled from the rest of the people, but also with himself because he knows he can’t be the person he wants to be.

                John the savage was born in the savage reservation of New Mexico. He is the son of the director and Linda and he grew up in the reservation.  When he meets Lenina and John they offer him the opportunity of returning to society. He seems excited because he will have the opportunity of integrating to society.  When he is in London he sees that the society is not what he expected.  Quickly he discovers he doesn’t fit in the World State.  He was also rejected by the Indians in the savage reserve. We know this because he wasn’t allowed to participate in the ritual the Indians were doing when Lenina and Bernard were at the reserve. John is tremendously influenced by William Shakespeare he read some of his literature this will cause him trouble in the World State. John was exiled twice the first time was when he lived in the reservation the Indians rejected him. The second occurs when he returns to society he and is not accepted for not obeying the World State laws.

                Both Bernard and John have something in common they experienced what being exiled feels. Both were not accepted by society for being different.  John was not going to change his beliefs he was going to defend them. Bernard was in the middle he was confused he didn’t know if was going to be himself, or just like everyone else just to fit in.