Brave New World Essay Draft One

After school ich werde schlafen.  I said this as I sat in my bed this morning contemplating the demise of my alarm clock.  Alas, no rest for the wicked and here goes nothing....Really nothing.

     Oliver Twist, Pinocchio, and Galileo.  All names of celebrated outcasts of history.  Through their persecution, their punishers' values and assumptions were exposed.  A boy without a family is no good to society.  A boy is worthless if he isn't a real boy at all.  If you try to prove the church wrong, they will be offended and denounce your name.  Similarly, John of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a pariah with experience to heed.  His upbringing as the shame of his "city-slicker" mother and the outsider child of a tribal village create a perspective through which the two fictional societies of savages and a world government can be effectively compared based on the ideals they value.
     The most natural effect of John's social isolation is the irregularity of his emotional capacity.  Although he was exposed to the indifference his mother treated intimate contact with, John's romanticized concept of a relationship, due to his education in Shakespeare and the monogamous culture of the tribe he was raised in, lead him to deny his own carnal desires and grow attached to his mother.  His refusal to accept the advances of Lenina or the death of his mother were comparatively pious in relation to the norms of the Brave New World where erotic play and promiscuity are encouraged beginning in early childhood.
    The product of John's socially unacceptable emotions is a confusion and depression he escapes through self-inflicted abuse and isolation.  When John begins life yet again, alone in the countryside, he whips himself, a process reminiscent of the tribal ritual he was denied.  In comparison, the citizens of the brave new world indulge in doses of soma to avoid any emotion they are uncomfortable with (that very discomfort originating from hypnopaedia).
    In addition to John's quixotic self-improvement practices is his servile personality.  Although he had been an outcast at the reservation in New Mexico, his loyalty still belonged to its people, offering himself as sacrifice for the rain that would ensure the community's survival.  Devoting your person to the good of the community is clearly traduced by its conforming members when the incident of Linda's sexual practices within the reservation is considered.  While the community never wanted either of them, they were not expected nor treated as if they should participate in its improvement.  Similarly, when John attempted to liberate the people of the brave new world from the influences of soma after the death of his mother he was greeted with opposition.  In effect, the conclusion to derive from the government's reaction is that individuality, a trait which soma allays through solidarity services and orgy-porgies, is detrimental to any overarching organization and consistency characteristic of a socialist society.