A Study on John’s Survival Predicament in Brave New World

Abstract

Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1931. Brave New World depicts a future world more than 500 years later, where human life is rich, sci-ence and technology are highly developed, people accept a variety of re-strictions and education satisfied with the status quo, everything is standardized and unified, and people’s desires can be satisfied anytime and anywhere. How-ever, John, as a Savage living on a Savage Reservation, finds himself greatly im-pacted and faced with a serious survival predicament when he is confronted with the completely different moral concepts and lifestyle of Savage Reservation and World State. In view of this, this thesis adopts the text analysis method to interpret John’s survival predicament in Brave New World. First, this thesis an-alyzes John’s cultural struggle and social exploration in the Savage Reservation. Secondly, it analyzes the survival crisis and moral predicament John encoun-tered when he came to a World State, where completely different from his orig-inal living environment. Finally, through the analysis of John’s death, the author reveals the complicated situation he is facing, thus demonstrating the author’s dystopian intention. After analysis, this thesis believes that although the World State in the novel seems to be a world where people can live without worry, but excessive mechanization and technological control will bring serious conse-quences, and cause many people to doubt and despair about their identity and real life. The interpretation of Brave New World from the perspective of John’s survival predicament not only provides a new research perspective for the nov-el, but also provides a warning and educational summary for the high degree of control brought about by the rapid development of technology in modern soci-ety.