![]() ![]() ![]() John is highly enraged at this, and raises a great hue and cry against its use which, in his view, makes people less human. After some time, she dies because of having taken an overdose of this drug. John’s mother does not get such social success in London as does her son, and lives a secluded life under the tranqullising effect of soma, the universal drug. John is initially fascinated by the New World, but finally he feels disgusted with it and revolts against its laws. Lenina is attracted towards him and tries to seduce him but he rejects her and repulses her advances because: of what he regards as her loose morals. With his knowledge of English and his frequent quotations from Shakespeare, John proves to be a great success in London society. Bernard seeks and gets permission of Mustapha Mond to take John back to England along with his mother Linda to conduct an experiment on him. John the Savage falls in love with Lenina, but his conventional morality inhibits his attraction towards her physical charms. John grows up as an intelligent and self-taught man because of his having been born of civilized parents, but remains partly a savage because of his upbringing among the savages living on the reservation. Linda now lives a promiscuous life on the reservation, having affairs with several men including Pope. Lenina, who is accustomed to the so-called) civilized life of Europe of 632 A.F., has a feeling of repulsion against the primitive life of people here.Īt the reservation, Bernard and Lenina come across a savage, John, born to a middle-aged woman, Linda, by the Director of Hatcheries as a result of her carelessness in the use of contraceptive device. ![]() Accompanied by Lenina, he once pays a visit to one such settlement in New Mexico. Lenina Crowne, a fleshy girl who has been attracted towards Bernard, produces a feeling of disgust and boredom in both.īeing an intellectual, Bernard Marx is allowed to visit one of the few reservations left in the world which have remained unaffected by the civilization of the new world, and where people still live as savages. Helmholtz Watson, feels a vague creative restlessness. Bernard Marx, an unorthodox and unhappy Alpha-Plus (a brilliant man) feels dissatisfied with the whole system. However, even in such a world, some dissatisfaction is brewing up. Thus, a rosy picture of the new world has been presented by Mond. The disorderly life of the old world has been substituted by an orderly and planned life of the new world, thus making people more happy and contented. Private love between individuals has been dispensed with, and the words like ‘father’ and ‘mother’ denoting personal relationships have become taboos. He tells them that in this controlled society, individual passions such as love, have been replaced by communal spirit and casual promiscuity. Now, Mustapha Mond, one of the ten all-powerful World Controllers, takes over from the Director to lecture to the students. The Director explains the Bokanovsky Process which involves the production of 96 identical twins from a single fertilized egg, thereby making maximum conformity possible. The visiting students are told that in the new society, individual differences have been eliminated so as to achieve the goals of Community, Stability and Identity, and people are now grouped, according to the stage of their development right from fetal stage, as Alpha-Plus, the highly intelligent leaders, to Epsilon Minus Morons, the misshape ape-like fools who have to do all the dirty work. Like mass production of cars, mass-production of babies has been made possible by means of artificial insemination and fertilization of eggs. The brave new world has already been ushered in, and time is measured from the time of the discovery and mass-production of Model T Ford, 632 years having elapsed since that time when the action of the novel begins. The novel opens with a scene at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center where its Director is showing this plant to a group of students. Conditioning makes workers content with their lot, and they have no higher aspirations or spiritual values to counter their enjoyment of material pleasures. Philosophy, art and literature are substituted by sensual life. – have any place in the life lived in this world. None of the emotions like love, hatred, friendship, etc. Reproduction here is a standard laboratory matter, and people are turned out systematically conditioned for the several strata of life. The people belonging to this world are graded from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers. In this world, social stability has been achieved through a scientific caste-system. It presents a picture of that world based on science. Brave New World is a utopian novel set in a future world state in the year 632 A.F. ![]()
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