John the Savage Character Analysis

John the Savage is the only person in the brave new world born naturally of a mother. John represents human in the novel, with an identity and a family relationship that is not like any other character. Although he is the son of two upper-caste Londoners, he grows up on the Savage Reservation. John is disconnected and rejected. His only society is Shakespeare's imaginative world, a world he fills with energy and idealism. John is the true loner, the individual Bernard imagines himself at times, and his life, accordingly, is filled with confusion and pain. John represents the most important and most complex character of Brave New World, a stark contrast to Bernard, the would-be rebel. Bernard's dissatisfaction with his society expresses itself most characteristically in sullen resentment and imagined heroism, but John lives out his ideals, however unwisely. In turning aside Lenina's advances, John rejects the society's values. He acts boldly in calling the Deltas to rebellion and in throwing out the soma. Finally, he faces the powerful Mustapha Mond deliberately and intelligently and sets out on his own to create a life for himself, which ends in tragedy.