Dystopia

John Savage is the central protagonist of the story. He enters the story as he expresses interest in participating in the Indian religious ritual from which Bernard and Lenina recoil. His desires mark him as an outsider among the Indians and the World State. John gets knowledge from Shakespeares work and he is able to verbalize his own complex emotions and reactions. He is able to criticize the World State values. His naïve optimism about the World State disappears when he comes into direct contact with the State. As he becomes more knowledgeable about the World State is becomes increasingly bitter. He ends up killing himself in the end of the novel and that’s due to the insanity created between his values and the reality of the world around him.