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Notes him in trouble. He quickly falls in love with John’s Shakespearean verses before leaving to live
in the Falkland Islands.

Morgana Rothschild

The member of Bernard’s Solidarity group with a distracting unified eyebrow.

Linda

Linda is the mother of the Savage and the woman whom the Director brought to the reservation.
She is an alcoholic and rather obese. After her return to society, she consumes too much soma
and dies soon thereafter.

Pope

Pope is Linda’s alcoholic lover and the man that John tries to kill after he discovers Pope
sleeping with his mother one night.

John Savage

The Savage, also known as John, is the son of the Director and Linda. He was born on the
reservation in a city called Malpais. He grew up as a hybrid of the Indian and Utopian
cultures, with a volume of Shakespeare as his guide to life. As a result, the Indians often
excluded him from their rituals. He and his mother Linda accompany Bernard Marx back to
London where he soon becomes a celebrity. John falls in love with Lenina and imagines his
love for her as that of Romeo and Juliet. He soon has trouble conforming to the ideals of the
Utopian world and strikes out in an effort to assert his individuality. John finally runs away
from the society but cannot avoid a mob of sightseers. In the end, he commits suicide.

Mitsima

One of the older Indians, who teaches John to make clay pots

Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury

The Songster is a powerful man who first meets with Lenina. At her request, Bernard invites
him to a party to meet John. When John refuses to come, the Songster gets upset and leaves.
He drags Lenina with him, although she appears to be unhappy and slightly unwilling.

Dr. Shaw
Shaw is the doctor who looks after Linda and gives her soma so that she can be happy.

20.2 Analysis of Major Characters

John
Although Bernard Marx is the primary character in Brave New World up until his visit with
Lenina to the Reservation, after that point he fades into the background and John becomes the
central protagonist. John first enters the story as he expresses an interest in participating in the
Indian religious ritual from which Bernard and Lenina recoil. John’s desire first marks him as

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