Brave New World: The Role of the Savage

The savage in Brave New World represents the fight against cheap pleasure and is on the side of freewill. This contrasts to almost everyone elses views in the book because all the characters in the book have all be brought up in the government controlled society, where they have been brainwashed into thinking that their way of life was the only good one. One main thing that is cut out by the government in order to maintain stability is culture. Art, music and theatre are all gone because they cause people to think. The peoples only sources of entertainment are drugs and feely`s which are mindless movies that they `feel`. Early in the book John the savage finds a play by Shakespeare. He reads it all the time and falls in love with Shakespeares romanticized view of the world. He believes in true love and happiness and beauty. When he comes into contact with the society all he sees is mindless drugged people who have no goals except to reamain happy as much as possible. In the end, John kills himself, and i think that this represents the authors view that we are slowly turning over to cheap meaningless happiness.