A Brave New World Exile Analysis

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In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, one of the characters, John, experiences a sort of exile from his home and birthplace. This exile puts him in a world where he is completely alienated, with everyone else’s beliefs almost opposite to his. This situation, however, provides him with spiritual enrichment and help him realize what makes life worth living. This spiritual enlightenment clarifies the theme of the book and why self-restraint and overcoming hardships are necessary to life.
John’s exile from his birthplace to the civilized world caused plenty of alienation. When his mother dies and he fails to speak with her on her deathbed, he is disgusted that nobody else seems to care that she is gone, making it seem less important than it was. He stated afterwards, “Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of Linda’s death.” (Pg. 209) He feels that life means more than just being disregarded at death, and holds more value than Linda’s death was given. In addition to this alienation, John also feels alienated with the culture of the society as a whole. The concept of loving one person being bad and lack of chastity being …show more content…
He meets with Helmholtz who helps him think about philosophy. Helmholtz helps John realize that turbulence and strife are sometimes necessary to lead a good life. As Helmholtz stated, “One needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can’t write well about anything else.” (Pg. 185) This helps John reach some sense of spiritual enlightenment, as he starts believing that without hardships there is no real purpose to life. As John says to the Controller, “Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare... Isn’t there something in living dangerously?” (Pg. 239) This spiritual enlightenment helps John denounce the modern society and go into further exile to where there is nobody else, so that he can practice
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