Brave New World August 3, 2010 Pages 236-259

The Savage attempts to purify himself from the evils of the civilized world. He moves away from the civilized world, preffering to live alone. He purifies himself of dirty thoughts. He makes himself physically sick and whips himself to gain purtity. He becomes a sort of hermit in a future world. The society finally finds him and uses him as a form of entertainment. The society turns even the most driven individual to act impurely and participate in an orgy. Because of his actions, the Savage decides to commit suicide. The skewed and perverted views of civilization caused a pure and work-oriented man to commit suicide. The pressures of civilization were too great to handle for someone who was not conditioned to live in civilization. Is it really civilized when you have to be condtioned before being able to conciously think to be able to survive? That kind of life would be entirely unbearable.

Quote from Brave New World August 2, 2010 Page 223

"The optimum population," said Mustapha Mond, "is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above."
-Brave New World Page 223
Mustapha Mond explains the way that the society is shaped to the Savage. There can only be a very small percentage of Alphas in the whole population. There can only be a small percentage of Alphas because they share the closest resemblance to a free-thinker. They are conditioned and sleep taught, but not as severely as the rest of society. A large group of free-thinkers would become aware of their own oppression and stir up the masses in a revolution against the ruling powers. The government attempts to avoid these situations at all costs by creating a smaller amount of Alphas.
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Quote from Brave New World August 2, 2010 Page 222

"...we have no wish to have our throats cut," he answered. "We believe in happiness and stability. A society of Alphas couldn't fail to be unstable and miserable."
-Brave New World Page 222
Mustapha Mond explains to the Savage why having a civilization of Alphas wouldn't work. A civilization of the best and brightest would not work because they would detest being assigned the menial jobs of society, such as a street sweeper or doorman. They would also protest against poor working conditions. These things have happened throughout history. In the 1880's and 1890's many protests began in the United States over working conditions in factories. The workers banded together and organized protests to demand better conditions and pay. These actions all disrupt the peace, which the society of Brave New World is trying to avoid.
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Brave New World August 2, 2010 Pages 210-235

The Savage snaps, seeing the government hand out the drug soma. He feels that soma is one of the controlling factors of the people's minds and limits the peoples freedom. The peoples need for soma can be compared to addictions to prescription drugs that we see today. The men and women of the future society use soma to escape the hardships of everyday life, just as the men and women of today use prescription painkillers to accomplish the same task. The difference between today and the imagined tomorrow is that in today's world the government attempts to stop drug abuse, while the fictional government attempts to increase drug use. During this section the Savage and Mustapha Mond also begin discussing ideologies. The Savage believes in freedom, even at the price of unhappiness, while Mond believes in peace and happiness at the price of freedom and freewill. Mustapha Mond believes his viewpoints quite logical. The Savage sees that even though these ideas are logical, they go against liberty and commonsense.
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Brave New World August 2, 2010 Pages 185-210

The Savage begins to resent living in the civilized world. He sees his mother die in a hospital where no one is especially bothered by death. Delta children mock him for caring about his mother. The Savage begins to change his opinions of the new civilized world. This is because he sees all the nice things of civilized life and sees that they are only being used to control the population. The Savage hates the promiscuity of civilized life. He calls Lenina a whore in a murderous rant. If I were the Savage I would also despise the ways of the new world. Orgy and sex are large parts of a normal citizens life. These actions go against all of the morals of a normal person of today. Casual sex is frowned upon today where it is encouraged in the world of tomorrow. I would mirror the actions taken by the Savage if I were put into his position.

Quote from Brave New World August 1, 2010 Page 179

"Bernard's other victim-friend was Helmholtz. When, discomfited, he came and asked once more for the friendship which, in his prosperity, he had not thought it worth his while to preserve. Helmholtz gave it; and gave it without reproach..."
-Brave New World Page 179
Bernard begins to envy Helmholtz for some of his whole-hearted characteristics. Even after Bernard abandoned Helmholtz for his new found friends, Helmholtz held no hard feelings against Bernard after Bernard came moping back from his vanity. Bernard is in a sort of awe for Helmholtz's forgiveness. He feels that Helmholtz should be angry with him, and is shocked that he is not. Helmholtz seems to deny the human trait of revenge, and Bernard is jealous of his denial.

Brave New World August 1, 2010 Pages 159-184

In this section, the Savage and Helmholtz begin to discuss Shakespeare and other poetry. Helmholtz scoffs at the unorthodoxies of Shakespeare's works which include a mother and father and conflict. The reason Helmholtz is so negative towards the ancient works of poetry is because he has been conditioned to scoff at these things. If I, or anyone else had been taught that babies only come from machines and not mothers and fathers, we would have the same response to the literature. The society was taught that mothers and fathers were smut and had no place in civil society. These things were taught because eliminating allegiances was necessary to create an obedient society. The only allegiance any one person held was the allegiance to the government. This was one way in which the government gauranteed itself complete sovereignty and peace. No civilization has accomplished this task yet, but accomplishing this task means taking away freedoms and civil liberties.
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