"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley - In many ways, John's presence in the "Brave New World" is very antagonistic.

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" is a science fiction novel about a society conditioned to believe in certain things and to act certain ways. They are taught prejudices against other types of people, they are taught to dislike and to fear nature, and furthermore, are conditioned to take a drug - soma - when things are going badly, in order to keep them in a positive, happy and comfortable state all the time. Many can …

…conditioned to have. Because of the lack of extremities in the Brave New World, they are not familiar with true happiness or unhappiness, since everything is constant; everything is mundane all of the time. People need to experience these extremes of happiness, pleasure, suffering, and misery in order to feel something. John's greatest desire is to have this chance, this right, to feel something. Therefore, John was very much so the Brave New World's antagonist.