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A Brave New World
that he is capable of creating it. When John shows Helmholtz some Shakespeare writing Helmholtz is grateful. He sees it as his opportunity to change society. ‘“That’s what we’ve all been wanting to write,” said Helmholtz, breaking a long silence. “And it’s what you never will write” said the controller. “Because, if it were really like Othello nobody would understand it, however new it might be. And if it were new, it couldn’t possibly be like Othello. You can’t make tragedies without social instability.”‘ (177)
When Helmholtz is sent to Falkland Island, he accepts his fate and is maybe even a little grateful for it because he sees it as a great opportunity to better his writing. Helmholtz believes that if there is a discomfort caused to himself, and by being around others who have been exiled it will give him more to write about. Helmholtz is so different from his peers because he has a greater understanding of things other than what they have been conditioned to understand.
Helmholtz and John have a common interest between them with Shakespeare. ’”But why is it prohibited?” asked the Savage. In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else.’(176) They both share a common understanding of this foreign form of writing. John the Savage is different from any human of either society. John is the son of two people from this perfect society where giving birth was unheard of, even forbidden. He was raised in an imperfect society known as savage reservation, where his mother raised him. John and his mother were brought to the Utopia by Bernard to be examined. The people of this society were interested by this foreigner because they had never met or seen anyone like John who had been born from a mother. John was tall and handsome but even more of an alien than the “deformed” looking Bernard.
John simply did not fit in. John believes in such things as religion, where a Utopian believes godliness is mass production and conformity like Ford and his mass production of the model T. John could not accept “sharing” everyone with each other for it goes against his religion. John’s religion also consists of an old fashioned morality, which he learned from reading Shakespeare. One of John’s strong religious beliefs is that you must take pain to become replenished, so he whips himself whenever he does something against his religion such as having an impure thought. John’s beliefs are against those of the brave new world, so he is stuck in a struggle to overcome people almost forcing Soma on him and their cultural beliefs. When John finally has enough of [next page]