Brave New World By Aldous Huxley - 966 Words

Title: Brave New World Author: Aldous Huxley Date Published: 1932 Main Characters: Bernard Marx, John the Savage, Linda (John’s Mother), Lenina Crowne, Mustapha Mound (World Controller), The D.H.C. (The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning), Henry Foster, and Helmholtz Watson Synopsis: The novel opens at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The D.H.C. starts off by explaining to a group of students how everything works and how people are created. He shows them how the Delta’s (lower caste) are learning not to like nature and books, but factories as that is where their place in the society is located. Bernard and Lenina are planning a trip to a savage reservation in New Mexico. Bernard and his friend Helmholtz both†¦show more content†¦John wants to have a serious relationship with Lenina, but she just wants sex. John gets upset and does not show at Bernard’s biggest party. John brings up marriage to Lenina, but she is disgusted. He then receives a call about his mother being sick. She dies and he goes into rampage. Bernard and Helmholtz go to the hospital as John is in a fight. Helmholtz joins in to help John, but Bernard stays back. They are sent to Mustapha Mound and Bernard and Helmholtz are sent to different isla nd, while John goes to live in a deserted lighthouse on the countryside. He then whips himself as punishment for enjoying to be alone. Crowds show up at his door demanding to see this whipping. After he woke up in the morning, he remembered all of his actions from the previous day, so he hangs himself. All of the people find him hanging as his door was ajar slightly to see him hanging there. Themes: Science is probably the biggest theme in this novel because if is how this new type of world is running. So many people are being affected by this science whether it is good or bad. Science is running the people’s lives because they are not controlling their destiny. Their predestination is as science causes a chain reaction type of ordeal. The egg creates buds, which creates castes on to separation that leads to the dystopian society. Isolation in a Society- Isolation is a theme because each caste, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon all have their own duties in the dystopian society.