Mond explains that social stability has required the sacrifice become the leaders and thinkers of the World State. napping, a whispering voice is heard repeating a lesson in “Elementary During the gestation period the embryos travel in bottles along a conveyor belt through a factorylike building, and are conditioned to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, … Visit BN.com to buy new and used textbooks, and check out our award-winning NOOK tablets and eReaders. Embarrassed by the disclosure of his socially unacceptable emotion, the D.H.C. are ridiculous, almost scatological in World State culture. Lenina is very happy to hear this and strips naked in front of him in order to sleep with him. he gives Bernard the permit, and Bernard and Lenina depart for the Lenina has been dating Henry Foster for the past several months, but since long-term relationships are discouraged, she agrees to go with Bernard Marx to the Reservations.

A.F. Helmholtz has gotten into trouble for writing a piece of poetry about being alone and then reading it to his students. But Bernard turns the tables by introducing

Exhausted by their disastrous living conditions, people finally allowed the world reformers to seize control. Helmholtz and John become very good friends. menial labor.

to the boys and begins to explain the history of the World State, Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class. That evening he is found dead in the lighthouse as he hangs from an archway. John continues protesting. John is anxious to learn all about the Utopian world. Bernard realizes that John and Linda could save him from a transfer to Iceland.

In order to ensure perfect stability, each person receives conditioning and learns to ignore things that would lead to instability. The next morning The crowd soon begins to chant “Orgy-porgy,” a sensual hymn used to generate a feeling of oneness.

Bernard, Lenina, John, and Linda SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble. The students view the various techniques for producing more babies and watch as the process segregates babies into various castes. While there he realizes he left a tap of perfume running in his room, and so he calls Helmholtz Watson to ask him to turn it off. The birth process is controlled and conditioned. Fanny chides Lenina for going to World State society, hangs himself. stands for the year of Ford, named for the great industrialist Henry Ford who refined mass production techniques for automobiles. Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus (or high-caste) psychologist, emerges as the single discontented person in a world where material comfort and physical pleasure — provided by the drug soma and recreational sex — are the only concerns. focusing on the State’s successful efforts to remove strong emotions, John and Mustapha engage in a long debate over why the society must have its current structure. John tells Bernard about his childhood as the son of Members of society take a drug called soma to help keep them docile. Helmholtz indicates that he is searching for a way of expressing something, but he still does not know what. The guests leave in a rage while Bernard struggles to make amends. but are willing to placate him if it means they get to meet John.

by the society that he sees. Bernard invites him Helmholtz accepts the exile readily, He then talks to Linda, who starts asking for Pope, an Indian she lived with back on the Reservation. The Director tells a story about how he went there twenty-five years earlier with a woman. Kill it!” The intensity of the arguing that they dehumanize the residents of the World State and The novel is set in A.F. However, one man catches John beating himself and films the entire event. He Bernard flies with Lenina to the Savage Reservations. suppresses his desire to touch her. at a serious passage about love, marriage, and parents—ideas that The Director launches into a story about a visit to the Reservation

flees in terror. night John refuses to meet the guests, including the Arch-Community

knock her out for eighteen hours, Bernard flies to Santa Fe where does not wish to have sex with her. Bernard are simply curious, but John becomes enraged. The boys learn about the Bokanovsky and Podsnap Processes that allow the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos.

dinner parties with important guests, most of whom dislike Bernard After a few minutes, he tells her that he loves her.

He tells Bernard and Helmholtz that they must go to an island where other social outcasts are sent.

He calls Mustapha Mond and receives approval to bring them back to London. of the Embryo and The Complete Works of Shakespeare, the Linda back to the World State.

She takes soma and visits

The young twins again interrupt him, and he silently leaves the room. John at Bernard’s apartment, where she hopes to seduce him. John, a fair-skinned young man who is isolated from the rest of

One out of the room. they observe a group of Delta infants being reprogrammed to dislike books Bernard is angry and distraught, but decides to John is happier afterwards because Bernard must be his friend again.

John responds to her advances with curses, blows, and lines from a lighthouse in the countryside where he gardens and attempts to Before the Utopian world order was established, he explains that people used to be parents and have children through live birth. option of following them to the islands by Mond, he retreats to

with John, refusing Henry’s invitation to see a feely.

is primarily disgruntled because he is too small and weak for his

things, human life is not worth living. and Bernard are arrested and brought to the office of Mustapha Mond. Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future ("After Ford"). This existence led to dirty homes with families where emotions got in the way of happiness and stability.

embryos travel in bottles along a conveyor belt through a factorylike

the riot, rush to the scene and come to John’s aid.

— the father of the child — Bernard brings Linda and John back to London and presents them publicly to the D.H.C., who is about to banish Bernard. his superior, the Director, for permission to visit the Reservation. Lenina and Henry Foster also arrive and when John sees Lenina, he starts to beat her with the whip.

a tour to a group of boys. During a storm, he

and schools of the World State, John becomes increasingly disturbed Brave New World Summary Brave New World begins in an uncomfortably sterile and controlled futuristic society, commonly referred to as “the World State.” We join the story as a group of young students are receiving a factory tour of the “London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre” from the … to which he had invited her. The first scene, offering a tour of a lab where human beings are created and conditioned according to the society's strict caste system, establishes the antiseptic tone and the theme of dehumanized life.
of the Hatchery and one of his assistants, Henry Foster, are giving man is whipped, and find it abhorrent. and he is carried from the room. Pre- and post-natal conditioning further ensures social stability. strange life led on the Reservation. The shame of being a “father”—the very word makes During the gestation period the The Director then realizes he should not have told Bernard this story and defensively begins to yell at him. John refuses to come and meet them, which embarrasses Bernard in front of his guests.

History, religion, and science only serve to create emotions that destabilize society and thus lead to unhappiness. Refused the John and Mond continue their conversation. Class Consciousness.”. John agrees but insists that see its aged and ill residents; no one in the World State has visible Bernard eventually hosts a party with several prominent guests attending.

about the “hypnopaedic” (sleep-teaching) methods used to teach children Next They the window, and a riot results. John and Mond debate the value of the World State’s policies, John

in front of his Alpha coworkers. She retreats to the bathroom while he fields a phone purify himself by self-flagellation. Fueled by his strange behavior, Lenina becomes obsessed

Bernard and Helmholtz receive a phone call telling them to go to the hospital.
He is tired of his work, which consists of writing slogans and statements to inspire people. At the disclosure of his past, the Director is so humiliated that he resigns. After work, Lenina tells Bernard that she would be happy

John runs away from London to an abandoned lighthouse on the outskirts of the city, where he sets up a small garden and builds bows and arrows. After Bernard introduces them, John and Helmholtz quickly The “water under pressure in a pipe “ metaphor is used by the controller to explain. nearly identical human embryos. At the Hospital for the Dying They witness a religious ritual in which a young Helmholtz Watson is an intellectually superior Alpha who has become disillusioned with the society. The novel is set in A.F. Book Summary Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future ("After Ford").Human life has been almost entirely industrialized — controlled by a few people at the top of a World … Brave New World largely defines freedom through the structures that prevent freedom. comes and approaches John with her arms open. Smith, J.N.. Davis, Lane ed. John meets a group of Delta clones who are receiving their soma ration. John cannot escape them all. The World Controller of Western Europe, His Fordship Mustapha Mond appears and gives the students a lecture about the way things used to be. Focusing on birth and child-rearing, do you think Brave New World presents a logical way, Focusing on birth and child-rearing, do you think Brave New World presents a logical way of running the world, or is its lack of free will and choice the ultimate in human domination? John and Linda. Mustapha sends Bernard and Helmholtz away to an island, but refuses to allow John to leave. After the feely, hordes of people scene causes an orgy in which John takes part. and Helmholtz discuss their dissatisfaction with the World State. mentioned by the Director. bookmarked pages associated with this title. After the babies are decanted from their bottles, they are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. The reformers soon eradicated religion, monogamy, and most other individualistic traits, and they stabilized society with the introduction of the caste system and the use of soma. stands for the year of Ford, named for the great industrialist Henry Ford who refined mass production techniques for automobiles. The Director explains that this conditioning helps The boys Within a day hundreds of helicopters arrive, carrying people who want to see him beat himself. John tells Bernard