In the end he too condemns modern civilization. Helmotz is Bernard’s friend and also becomes friends with John. He’s the only one who really understands John’s hatred against modern civilization. Alpha’s are conditioned to be the smartest people. Helmotz Watson: Helmotz Watson is an alpha. John can’t handle the change from his world to the Brave New World. In the World Society these things are despised because they undermine stability. John thinks love, individuality, passion, knowledge, heroism etc. So John has been brought up on the reservation, which is totally different from ‘normal’ society. He does this because natural birth and parenthood are unaccepted in the World Society, because “they cause love and love undermines stability” (The World Society’s motto is Community, Identity, Stability). The Director of Hatchery is the father, but he leaves Linda stranded in the reservation. Linda is a woman who was brought up in the World Society but was left in the reservation after getting pregnant with John. John Savage: John is Linda’s and the Director of Hatchery’s son. But her love for him is of a purely physical nature. She is a perfectly normal beta woman except for the fact that she falls in love with John Savage, which is quite unusual (falling in love). She knows all the hypnopaedic (conditioning while sleeping) messages by heart. Lenina Crowne: Lenina is a well conditioned member of the World Society. This is given as an explanation of Bernard’s shortness and ‘strange’ behavior’ Rumors travel around that they put too much alcohol in Bernard’s test tube in the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He likes being alone, which is another thing that is disapproved of. Bernard isn’t very popular with women,due to his height and strange (individualistic) behavior. Passion is a term unfamiliar to the people of the New World. He loves one woman with passion, Lenina, which goes against basic principals of the World Society (“everyone belongs to everyone”). He’s more individually minded then other people in the New World.

He’s an alpha plus, but he’s too short for an alpha plus. During the book John starts hating the so-called civilization of the New World, which eventually leads to John hanging himself.īernard Marx: Bernard is an outcast in the Fordian civilization. Linda had been left there after becoming pregnant (which in modern civilization wasn’t done). When they go back to the ‘civilized’ world they take Linda and her son John with them. Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne, two employees at the Centre, take a trip to the reservation in New Mexico, the only place where modern civilization isn’t a fact of life. The Brave New World begins with a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Outline of the story (background information: setting) Number of pages: 195 (actual book excluding foreword (1946))

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