John the Savage
John is Linda and the Director’s biological son, raised on the reservation and educated emotionally through Shakespeare.
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Spoiler-freeJohn is Linda and the Director’s biological son, raised on the reservation and educated emotionally through Shakespeare. He wants purity, heroic love, spiritual meaning, and the right to suffer, but his ideals leave him unable to handle ordinary sexual desire. Brought to London as a curiosity, he rejects the World State but cannot build a livable alternative. After his attempt at solitude becomes mass entertainment, he dies by suicide.
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