The Death of The Savage, II

(This version has taken into account the peer comments)

       Many outlandish events can take place without people really grasping the reality of the situation, but when a death results from those events, people start to pay attention. In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, John Savage's life was turned upside-down when Bernard brough him to the World State in London from his  Native American reservation. The people he met and things he experienced, along with his struggle with sin in a sin-filled world, led to his eventual suicide. His death illuminated the need for restraint and social control in a society where those things are clearly abused.
    The World State was the genious creation of Huxley and showed what happens when a government goes  to extreme lenghts make its citizens content. At an early age, humans are produced without parents and conditioned through repetition not to do anything moderately out of the ordinary.  As someone coming from the 'outside' world, John represents something out of the ordinary. Immediately red flags pop up in the reader's mind; in a society so rigidly controlled, something so wild and untamed cannot mean anything good. Because John is so unique, he becomes an instant sensation and is put through nightly parties and events. Bernard also enjoys a share of this popularity. This fixation with and manipulation of John reflects the situation the Native American's found themselves in during the 19th century. The parallels between earlier events and the amount of change taking place within the World State combine to produce a foreboding mood throughout the novel.
    The dynamic between John and Bernard changes when Bernard's love interest, Lenina, begins showing interest in John.  John, as a devotely religious young man, resists whatever advances Lenina makes on him. The artificiality of the World State society has little effect on John. He continues to hang on to his memories of real feelings that he experienced on the reservation, whether they were bad or good. His emotions come to a peak when he is called to the death bed of his mother. His actions after his mother's death culminate in an uprising he sparks by interfering with several workers' daily rations of soma. John decides he can no longer be part of such a confining society, so he goes to the middle of the forest and lives by himself in a tower, living off the natural land and reverting back to what his life was like on the reservation. However, certain antics he creates, like whipping himself as a part of an Indian tradition he was previously denied, draws the attention of the media and public. The pervasiveness of the World State society finally engulfs John, and he gives into a soma induced orgy when a host of people discover his tower. His guilt is overwhelming the next day, as he realizes what took place the night before. Knowing there is no way he can live with his guilt, John hangs himself.
    When the media arrives the next day to observe more happenings, they find John's body swaying in the wind. The author describes his feet as if they were the needle on a compass, rotating "north, north-east, east...". This symbolizes the moral compass that the World State society is missing. All of their innovations: the conditioning, helicopters, soma, are for naught if no one cares about the possible effects of their culture. Huxley may be continuing to draw the parallels between the World State and 19th century America, and also commenting on the culture of America during the 20th century. He is warning against the appearance of control where there is, in fact, the loss of it. The eerie parallels lead the reader to realize that the death of the savage illuminates the need for a moral standard in a society that has none.