"'Free, free!' the savage shouted, and with one hand continued to throw the soma into the area while, with the other he punched the indistinguishable faces of his assailants." (Brave New World, page 213)
I think I have finally established the protagonist. All along I thought that the protagonist would be Bernard, but it turns out to be John. John takes his rebellious attitude toward this society and puts it into action. He throws away their soma in effort to fix some of the problems with their world. He knows the danger that soma causes, seeing as it killed his mother, and he wants to show how happiness does not lie in soma or sex. John sees how soma is used for escaping every human emotion that people are supposed to experience. However, people in the New World do not experience any of these emotions. Instead, they remain like children and babies rather than deal with pain and suffering. By John taking action, he becomes the protagonist. John seems to be the one character who will actually do something and start to change the messed up world that everyone lives in. It will be interesting to see what John can do. Especially because at the end of the chapter he was taken away by the police. Even if John is unable to carry out and produce change in the New World, he will still be the one character who initiated a type of change in the society.
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