Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

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By: Aldous Huxley Brave New World opens in a technically
advanced future
world. In the beginning of this book, we see the Director of
World
Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a
Conditioning
Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and
pre-sorted to
determine which class level they will be born into. These
class level
range from Alpha-plus, the highest level, to Epsilon-minus,
the lowest.
There are no parents, and babies are conditioned from birth
to learn certain
behaviors. All diseases have been eliminated, and when
people are feeling
down, they just take soma, a wonder drug. Also, people are
conditioned from
birth not to love one person, so there is no marriage and
most people have
many lovers. There is no God; instead, Henry Ford is
worshipped as the god
Ford. Another accomplishment of this society is the
elimination of aging.
Bernard Marx has unorthodox viewpoints and is outcast as
an eccentric. He
likes being alone, but in this society being alone is
discouraged. His
isolation from society has made him very different from
everyone else. His
only friend is Helmholtz Watson, an accomplished intellect
who writes
government propaganda. Watson has grown war of life as
it is, and his
supervisors have him under close watch. Two co-workers
are discussing
Lenina Crowne, another worker, in a changing room. They
act as if she were
property, able to be bought and sold. Bernard is disgusted
by this, so he
decides to ask Lenina to go to a Savage Reservation in New
Mexico. Bernard
visits the Director for permission to go. The Director tells a
story of when
he went to a Savage Reservation with Linda, a pretty
colleague. During their
visit,Linda was lost, and the Director had to leave. So
Bernard and Lenina
go to the Savage Reservation, which is inhabited by Indians.
They quickly
find Linda among the Indians. At first they do not realize
who she is, but
she explains what happened. Linda is aged and obese. Also,
Linda has a son
named John who is the Director's child. John is educated
and mature, having
read
Shakespeare (forbidden in civilization). Bernard takes
the two back
to London for study. Once back, Linda takes too much
soma, so she falls into
a coma. John is displayed by Bernard, who becomes a hero.
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