![]() She attempts to seduce John, which again triggers his conscience and he ends up becoming violent, raging like King Lear from Shakespeare’s eponymous play, so that Lenina locks herself in the bathroom. He becomes depressed and refuses to accompany Marx anymore, effectively ruining his newly-gained social standing.Īs things begin to come to a head, Lenina finds herself infatuated with John, to the point of refusing her former suitors, such as Henry. However, John has fallen in love with Lenina and becomes obsessed with her, tortured by the free love she seems willing to give, which does not match the monogamous conception of love he grew up with. He parades John (or, “the savage”) around society parties, and people put up with him to gain access to this wonder. with what he has found (viviparous birth being an incredible scandal), and his social currency, so long in abeyance, finally skyrockets to where he thinks it should have been all along. Marx convinces Mond to allow him to bring Linda and John back to civilization for scientific purposes.Īs they arrive back in London, Marx is able to humiliate the D.H.C. Marx finds that this is the son of the Director and the very same woman who had been presumed dead, Linda. While Bernard and Lenina are there, they run into a strange man named John, dressed in the manner of the savages, but clearly a white man, fluent in English. In so doing, the Director tells a story about a woman he was sleeping with a long time ago who went missing on the same reservation and was presumed dead. Lenina and Bernard are drawn to one another, though Lenina in a more socially-acceptable fashion, maintaining the tenets that Bernard strains against.Īs the two of them are about to leave for a trip to Malpais, the Savage Reservation in New Mexico, Bernard learns that the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is planning to ship him off to Iceland, thinking he sets a bad example and could corrupt his coworkers. Mond gives a history lesson of the wars and strife leading up to the formation of the World State and implementation of its systems.Īfter the society has been introduced and explained, Huxley shifts gears into the main plot of the novel, revolving around the characters Lenina Crowne, who works as a nurse at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and her coworker, Bernard Marx, who works in the Psychology Bureau. These roles and their necessity are decided by the ten “World Controllers” who run the world, one of whom, Mustapha Mond, we meet early in the novel. Alphas are at the top, followed by Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and finally Epsilons. People in the World State are literally factory-made they are then brainwashed into relishing whatever lot in life they are assigned: one of five main castes determined largely by predestined and scientifically-controlled intelligence levels. ![]() The novel opens with a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, in which the Director explains the foundational ideas of society’s “stability,” which stems from the production-line uniformity of its citizens. Brave New World, a dystopian novel published in 1932, is perhaps Aldous Huxley’s most famous and enduring work, consistently ranked among the top-100 English-language novels by entities such as the Modern Library, BBC, and The Observer.
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