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The character of John in the novel "Brave New World" represents an individual of the pre-World State order. He is raised in Malpais, a place in Savage Reservation. He is an illegitimate son of Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning. Due to his upbringing, he is old-fashioned as compared to the citizens of World State. He leads his life with practices of the Tribe like flagellation, simplicity, non-materialist. He is an ardent believer in God and tries his best to persuade Mustapha Mond about the importance of God in people's life. John wants an ideal and romantic love but disgusts at the love-making prevalent in the World State. He truly loves Lenina and wants her love too but in a solemn and traditional way. He wants to marry her but Lenina was conditioned to polyamorous love. John doesn't want to involve straight into sexual love, he wants a girl like "Juliet" which wasn't possible at the time. John has lived and studied Shakespeare's works and hi...

Positive Features : None of the citizens carries/acquires any disease because of the advancement in medical science. Treatment of every disease is possible there. Moreover, no one grows old and people remain young throughout their life. War has no place in the World State and various arrangement are made to avoid a war. In fact, violence is totally prohibited. It's all about happiness. The government wants its citizen to live jubilant life with no distress or loneliness. Soma is a life-saver. Every basic amenities are provided to people and there is no dearth of nearly anything. It is wholly a productive society. Protection and adaptation against the occupational hazards. Chemical workers are immunized against toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar and chlorine. Similarly, rocket-plane engineers are enhanced with an improved sense of balance. Negative Features : An advance yet class-based (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon) society which is contrary to a highly modern w...

The life represented in the novel shows the futuristic version of our world. The world has reached the zenith in the field of technology. People are governed by World Controllers. There are Ten World Controllers who run the government at the peak level. Their governing motto is: "Community, Identity and Stability." Children are not born here, they are nurtured in a lab where they are conditioned by Hypnopaedia (learning by hearing while asleep). Certain fundamental norms of the society are transferred to their minds with the above technique. They regard Henry Ford as an equivalent of Christ. Their A.F (After Ford) refers to the number of years according to their calendar. The division of the society remains static throughout their lives. They are classified into as follows : 1) Alpha  ------------- Privileged class 2) Beta    ------------- Privileged class 3) Gamma  ---------- Lower class 4) Delta     ---------- Lower class 5) Eps...