![]() ![]() but in the World Society, everyone belongs to everyone else. He cares passionately about freedom, individuality, etc. Linda dies because of an overdose of soma ( a drug that makes you feel cheerful), and John finds out that this ‘Brave new world’ is nothing like he thought it was, nothing like his mother had told him. ![]() Bernard and linda take Linda and John with them, back to the modern world. Linda used to live in the World Society, but was left behind in the reserve because she became pregnant, which is unacceptable in the modern world. In the reserve, Bernard and Lenina meet Linda and John. They do not condition their children, they’re dirty and they have all kinds of primitive traditions. ![]() Lenina, a well-conditioned woman, is astonished and disgusted by the indians that live in the reserve. He and a girl he’s with, Lenina, go on vacation to a reserve in New Mexico, the only place left on Earth untouched by the World Society. Bernard is an outcast, who is rather individualistic and feels miserable because of it. Everyone is conditioned to feel a sense of togetherness. People are made in five classes, alphas to epsilons, all of them with a specific function in the society. Everyone belongs to everyone else, everyone has a function in society and individuality is out of the question. There is a new World Society, with the motto Community, Identity, Stability. Therefore John has a sense of antipathy towards the modern world. He finds emotion, freedom, individuality and knowledge to be very important, but these principles are despised in the World Society, because they ‘undermine the Stability’. He was born in Malpais, in the Reserve, the only part of the world untouched by the modern society. Sons are also quite odd in the Modern World, because women don’t get pregnant anymore. She tells John stories about the World Society and how great it is, which leads John to think that it is a marvellous place. She was born in the World Society, but brought to the reserve because she became pregnant, which is unacceptable in that society. Lenina Crowne does actually fall in love, however, with John the Savage, and is also a bit attracted to Bernard in spite of his peculiarity. She doesn’t understand Bernard’s individualism, because she’s been conditioned otherwise. Lenina Crowne She is a well-conditioned Beta woman. Feeling miserable in the Modern World is also quite peculiar, so Bernard really is an outcast. Because of this, Bernard cannot deal with his sense of individualism, and it makes him feel miserable. ‘Everyone has a role in society, even Epsilons’. He has individualistic idea’s, which are not done in a society where there is a great sense of togetherness. He is different in the way he looks he’s a bit shorter than normal Alpha’s. The story is told in chronological order, except for one flashback in john’s youth.īernard Marx Bernard is an Alpha, but is quite different from the other alpha’s, and the rest of the society, for that matter. For example the conditioning of children in their sleep. Realising that the book is set in the future is crucial, because specific events wouldn’t make sense in a book that is set in the present. It is very important to know that the story is set in the future, because the entire book is a warning for what can happen to societies, to mankind. Time The time is set in the future, in 632 After Ford (AF is the year 2535). The events are related to where the characters are in the story, so therefore it is, in some cases, hard to understand the story. It’s quite important to know where the story is set because John, the savage from the reserve, is both in London and in the reserve in the story. ![]() Location The story is set mostly in London and New Mexico ( Malpais, the reserve). When he finds out that the modern world is a society based on principles such as ‘everyone belongs to everyone else’, he uses the quote in a sarcastic way, because he feels that there is no freedom in a civilisation like that. One of the main characters, John the Savage, quotes it to express a sense of cheerfulness when he is told of the modern world outside the reserve he lives in. The title, Brave new world, is a quote from Shakespeare’s the Tempest ‘O brave new world, that has such people in it’. ![]()
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