John is the protagonist who was abandoned as a child and raised by Native Americans. He feels rejected by both societies and isolated. He leaves the reservation with Bernard, hoping London will be better, but finds that society there is controlled by technology and the drug soma. John rejects this world and its lack of deeper meaning. He isolates himself in a lighthouse and eventually commits suicide, unable to find acceptance.

1. “Brave New World” Short Essay #1….
In the reading selection of “Brave New World” had many characters that had their own
lives and problems. Though the one that had experience the rift and becomes a cut off
from “home”. This would be John who is also the protagonist of this novel. John does not
feel like he belongs in either the “savage world” Indian or “Civilized” World State
because he is rejected by both societies. In the Indian society John was abandoned there,
therefore he was rejected because he was different. He had straw colored hair, blue eyes,
and white complected skin. The Indians were darker as for their eyes and hair as well.
Living the reservation just caused him to want a better life and he isolated himself from
others. John then leaves with a man named Bernard who takes him no London. Though
going to London, he thinks life will be better than then the reservation. John was sadly
mistaken because this Brave New World he has gone to is nothing like the way he
imagined it. Later on alienating himself once again but in lighthouse to be alone. John has
no escape of his new hidden alienation life and commits suicide. Not only was he cut off
from his “homes” but of his insanity. John was going insane from reality and values of
the world he was living in, causing him to hurt himself in the way he did .
“Brave New World” Short essay #2
In the novel “Brave New World” objects, actions, or events can represent a symbol that
can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning itself. SOMA was a
major factor in the story. The drug soma is used of greatly gratification to control the
World State’s populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and
technology on society of the World State’s. As a kind of that also represents the use of
religion to control society by having them believe in Mustapha Mond. It was a way to
control the New World and those who went against it were then exiled. Soma was
expressed in the idea that you must follow of what you are told those of higher power.
The clarify meaning of how it made you feel. It made you feel good but it shortened your
years of living. Though they saw it as “immeasurable durations it can give you out of
time. Every soma-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity." Soma
clouds the realities of the present and replaces them with happy hallucinations, and is
thus a tool for promoting social stability.

2. Dystopian Elements
“Brave New World” was a organized, run a certain way place in London. Things were
different and ran a certain way then the World now in 2011. In London it was ran where
science and technology was like their God then God himself, there was no religious
thought. Elements that were used in this Dystopian world was the drug of Soma. Soma
clouds the realities of the present and replaces them with happy hallucinations, and is
thus a tool for promoting social stability. Due to control the populace of World State’s.
Another is the truth and happiness of the ones who live there. That is how soma comes
into play. It seems clear enough from Mond’s argument that happiness refers to the
immediate gratification of every citizen’s desire for food, sex, drugs, nice clothes, and
other consumer items. Technology and Science played a part in this dystopian setting, As
technology increases, the use for humans being able to work decreases leaving an
overwhelming amount of depression and sorrow among humans. Therefore, a way to
continue the production of technological findings and bringing up humans from day one
to accept their unhappiness as normal and continue living the way they are.

3. Significance of Title: “Brave New World”
Name and Pertinent Facts about Author: Aldous Huxley, had a disease that affected his
eyesight
Historical period: 1931, England
Setting/ Significance: 2540 a.d.; referred to in the novel as 632 years “After Ford,”
meaning 632 years after the production of the first Model T car.
Genre/ Characteristics: Dystopia/ opposite of Utiopian
Significance of Opening Scene: The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and
Conditioning Centre. Shows that they are made by machines.
Protagonist/ Name and Describe: John, has blonde straw hair, pale blue eyes, and is
white skinned. Was raised among the Indians because his mom abandoned him.
Protagonist’s motivation: What does he want and why? Base your insight on textual
evidence: John wants to leave the reservation to be where he belongs because he
depressed among the other Indians.
List other Characters and Descrie:
1.)Bernard Marx – an alpha male, takes John the savage to the new world, can be cruel
2.)Lenina Crowne - A vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery , blonde hair,
becomes fond of John, in a relationship with Bernard.
3.)Mustapha Mond - The Resident World Controller of Western Europe, one of only ten
World Controllers.

4. Relationship of the protagonist with each of the characters you listed. How does each
character influnce the decisions or feelings of the protagonist?:
1.)Bernard Marx – Bernard took John to the new world.
2.)Lenina Crowne – Both John and Lenina end up having feeling for each other which
causes them to have wrong thoughts.
3.)Mustapha Mond – do not get along because he does not like that John believes in a
God and does see the purpose of Soma.
List and Explain at least two external conflicts that the protagonist faces:
1.) John does not blend in with his surroundings of the reservation because he is not
actually an Indian.
2.) When John ends up going to the new world he does blend in either because they
do not believe in a god like he does.
List and Explain at least two internal conflicts that the protagonist faces:
1.) John ends up hurting himself because he has become unpure due to the fact that
he “ate his own wickedness”.
Symbols/ Motifs, Explain their Significance:
1.)Ford – technology over powers religion
2.)Shakespeare – Human relation in a place where they don’t
Themes and Author’s purpose for utilizing them in novel:
1.) The Consumer Society: society’s economic values, in which individual happiness
is defined as the ability to satisfy needs, and success as a society is equated with
economic growth and prosperity.
2.) Happiness and Truth: Truth and individuality thus become entwined in the
novel’s thematic structure. The peoples happiness did not matter to them because
they lived with the fact that machines took jobs and practically ran the world
3.) Dangers of all Powerful state: They used Soma which made the people relax yet
they forgot how the world was treating them.
Memorable Quote #1: “I ate my own wickedness”
Significance: John was consumed by civilization which he purified himself which made
him sick. How ironic to help himself was to hurt himself.
Memorable Quote #2: "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do,
because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so
hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid.
They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with
Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write.
Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
Significance: It sort of segregated everyone by colors of their shirt to see who was
inferior of one another. Such as when blacks were segregated from schools, restaurants
and even restrooms.

5. Memorable Quote #3: "Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with
the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as
instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against
misfortune, none of the picturesque ness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal
overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
Significance: That beauty might even be the misery of others like it the plays of
Shakespeare that John enjoyed very much.
Plot Summary: society laughed at mothers, and looked down upon monogamy and
marriage.Bernard in the beginning of the novel had some morals. He felt uncomfortable
to have sex on the first date and he felt deep in his gut that there was more to life than
what was spoon fed to him. Sadly, all of his morals and yearnings came crashing down
when he found success by bringing John from the reservation. John’s rejection of
technology is something to be looked at. He knew that this lifestyle was pointless, and
that soma was killing the vast majority. John went overboard with it by beating himself at
the lighthouse