In the novel “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley portrays his character's heroic and villainous traits by exaggerating their personalities. Huxley assigns unique traits to each character and amplifies that trait. This is because in the futuristic dystopia of the novel, there are only extreme versions of society. There is the gated community in which individuals are grossly infatuated with themselves and whatever will make them happy, while behind the gated community people act like animals. Being the only person born naturally, John the Savage represents the hero who is meshing his two worlds together. When Lenina Crowne made a vast advance towards him, the Savage “retreated in terror” and even “flapp[ed] his hands at her as though he were trying to scare away some intruding and dangerous animal” (13.193). This is significant because in the dystopia, sex is seen as just another act which means nothing and marriage is frowned upon; however, John believes the opposite. Before Crowne throws herself on him, John said he wants “to show [he] was worthy of [her]” and talks of marrying Lenina …show more content…
There are two separate communities in which individuals live completely opposite lives. The World State is a distorted dystopia in which each person is grossly self serving, while the Savage Reservation is a community of people who live like animals. The Director and John the Savage's’ exaggerated personalities echo the clear diversity of the two communities. Huxley developes John the Savage’s heroic image by creating him to be so obsessed with staying pure and true that he tortures himself to the point of his suicide. John could not bear the thought of having flaws. The Directors villainous image was built by amplifying his hypocrisy. Even though he too had strayed from the ideal, the Director was given no punishment. That didn’t stop him from threatening to send Bernard to Iceland if he wandered from the status