Motivations for John’s suicide in "Brave new World"
... for the character, a way for him to integrate in the distopia without altering his values and believes, it would have shown the “brave new world” as not being such a bad place to live in. Huxley wrote the book to show a society were flaws present in our world, directions into which we were/are heading, are present in a far stronger form. This exaggeration makes one more aware of these problems. The plot and characters of the story is merely a tool use to describe this society. John the savage being one of the most effective, he is far closer in philosophy and ideology to the reader then any other character. He is almost the only one that is to some extend likeable. John was left with two options, go back to the reservation where he would continue to live as an outcast in a primitive and very superstitious community or live in the brave new world, being treated like an experiment, an abnormality which the distopians found very intriguing. John tried to live apart from both societies, living independently sustaining himself with agriculture, praying with a mixture of Christian and Indian believes. When his exile becomes compromised by curious visitors, among them Lenina, a women to whom John feels very attracted, yet hates for being so promiscuous, John loses his self control. Whether he beat Lenina to death, or engaged in the orgy that was taking place in front of his house is not really told to the reader. It is ...