Aldous Huxley, Brave New World The Good Savage – Rousseau
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World The Good Savage – Rousseau

Summary/Abstract: The Noble Savage is an idealized concept of the uncivilized man, who symbolizes theinnate goodness of one not exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization. It is aromantic conception of a man enjoying a natural and noble existence untilcivilization makes him a slave and corrupts him. John the Savage is the son born ofparents from the Brave New World, but raised in the Savage Reservation, Johnrepresents a challenge to the dystopia. He is the character closest to being the heroof the novel. John is labelled a savage in Brave New World because he rejects society’svalues and prefers to live as people did in older times. Even though he rejects thesociety tells him is civilized John is closest in mindset and experience to what weconsider civilized today. John is the only character in the novel burn naturally of amother, as opposed being born in a laboratory from a test-tube procedure. Johnmaintains a familial relationship with his mother, while the other characters neverknow their parents. John reads Shakespeare as a hobby, while the other charactersuse drugs and sex as their only sources of recreation. And finally, once in London,John abhors society and claims that freedom and individuality should never besacrificed for the sake of stability.

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