Characters in "Brave New World"

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The paper examines the character John, the Savage, whose suicide stems from his freedom to discover and define himself as an individual human being. The author feels that his character stands as a lesson in contrast to the mind-control of Mustapha Mond's utopian arguments. The author concludes that the question of happiness depends on who is defining these words.

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"Again, to be fair to Mond's argument, it is undeniable that with freedom comes the consequences of suffering. The point is that the individual human being, to have his or her life mean anything, must be free to choose what to do, think and feel. The people in this utopia have had their freedom to choose conditioned out of them. They are trained from birth, and genetically controlled before birth, to accept their lot and, therefore, they are not even aware of freedom. They willingly accept the drugs, which give them a chemical "happiness;" and they do not miss the freedom for which John is willing to suffer and finally to die."

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