Brave New World Summary

In the book Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, where everyone lives in a world in which humans are conceived by test-tubes and being a mother is horrific, and a father is an outrageous joke, society is separated by portions, ranging from the lower-class epsilons too the high class Alpha-Pluses; a  man named Bernard Marx, who unconsciously seeks freedom, departs with a beautiful young woman named Lenina Crowne, to a savage resort. In the resort, they meet a woman, a mother, named Linda, mother of the indian child; John, who seeks his father. After Bernard's return, the director; Thomas, or Thomakin, who previously discussed his love with a woman he lost on the New Mexico savage reservation. Coincidentally, the woman, Linda, who is now a mother, was the lost love of the Director. Upon Bernard's return, Thomas, who plans to exile John to Iceland, informs Bernard of his soon departure, but is asked if he can find any reason why he should not be exiled by Thomas. Bernard replies with a simple yes, and Linda enters the room. Everyone is appalled by Linda who is overwhelmed with joy to see Thomas. Unfortunately, Thomas is completely embarrassed and does not want anything to do with her. John also enters the room, and approaches his father, kneels before him, and exclaims, "Father!" which immediately fetched an abrupt laughter from the viewing crowd. Thomas leaves the room and shortly after initiates his resignation, never to be heard from again. Linda shortly after begins dying, but Mustapha Mond wants to keep John for testing. John falls in love with Lenina Crowne, and informs her of this. Unfortunately, in this society, intimate connections with people is frowned upon. He informs Lenina of his love for her, but she does not understand and begins to strip in front of him, after becoming  completely nude, John stares at her and screams, "WHORE!". John quickly departs to visit his mother. While Linda is on her death-bed, John heads to the hospital, then tells the nurse of his mother's soon to come death. The nurse, appalled by the word "mother",  then takes John to his mother's room. Twin Beta-Minuses approach John, next to his mother and constantly begin asking if she's dead. John is outraged by this and hits one of the boys. After his mother's death, John is used for more continuous experimentation but is not very excited about this. John later throws several crates of Soma out of the window exclaiming about freedom. The nearby crowd of Deltas does not understand and begin charging towards John, Bernard, and Hemholtz, who also happened to be there. The police quickly arrive and apprehend everyone with soma. The three men are taken to Mustapha Mond, who exiles Bernard and Hemholtz, but states that the experimentation with John will continue. John leaves to a light-house, in which he begins to whip himself as punishment for Lenina. Lenina one day arrives at the light-house, after a hit-feely is released, and John begins to whip her while exclaiming "Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!". In the midst of the whipping, one man shouts, "Orgy-porgy!" And then it is commenced. John then wakes up the next day remebering the horrible tragedy, and is later found by men returning hoping for another party, but John had hung himself.

Chapter 12 Journal Entry

After the Director's resignation, Bernard attempts to discuss with Hemholtz his blooming sex life, however,  Hemholtz only replies with a defiant silence, which offends Bernard. Bernard writes a letter to Mustapha Mond, but unfortunately offends him, which leads to Mond's belief that Bernard needs to be punished.

Brave New World Chapter 10 Journal Entry

In chapter 10, Bernard is late to a meeting with the director and Henry Foster, upon his arrival the director states that the more intellectual a man is, the more responsibilities he has. Because of his earlier confession of his love for Linda to Bernard, the Director attempts to exile him in front of the entire crowd, but then asks for a reason why he should not. Bernard quickly tells him that there is a reason he should not be exiled, and presents the reason right in front of him; Linda. Linda, a monster, rushes towards the director only to be shunned. And John, Thomas's son, enters the room, exclaiming, "Father!", however, Thomas is appalled, and resigns shortly after this, and is not heard from again.

Brave New World Chapter 9 Journal Entry

In chapter 9, John, searches for Bernard, but cannot find him while Bernard makes a phone call to Mustapha Mond for a request for a helicopter to return them home. John breaks into Lenina's room, basking in the glory of her miscellany, and sees her lying on the bed. He thinks about pulling down the zipper of her pajamas but is immediately ashamed of himself. He then thinks he hears a fly buzzing, but realizes it is a helicopter and quickly rushes into the other room.

Allusions: John hovers over Lenina and recites a quote from Shakespear that Romeo rehearsed while talking about Juliet's beauty.

Brave New World Chapter 8 Journal Entry

In this chapter, John shares with Bernard how he grew up with Linda's wonderful stories, but felt rejected due to her acquaintance with so many men. He then shared how she taught him to read by writing on the wall and happened to bring along a beta-minus book for factory workers. And, one day, Pope´ brought every work of Shakespeare to his pueblo. Although John's mother was exiled from society, John absorbed and partook in the culture around him.

Allusion: Shakespeare
Vocabulary:
Characters: John, Linda, Lenina, and Bernard.

Chapter 7 Journal Entry Brave New World

In this chapter, Lenina sees the building of the Malpais and finds the Indian man and the building very strange. Lenina sees an old man for the first time and women breast-feeding, but is appalled at the sight. Bernard claims that she is missing out and even implies that it would be quite an experience to be a mother herself. Bernard also explains to Lenina that old age is prevented on their own reservation. After long, they soon go meet Linda, who is a disgusting, wrinkled, horrific, alchoholic who once belonged to the man named Thomas: the director.

Vocabulary: Queer; Stange/Odd
Allusions: Crusifixes

Brave New World Chapter 4 Journal Entry

In this chapter, Lenina approaches Bernard in a room filled with man, many of which she has slept with. She announces that she would enjoy a vacation with Bernard and Bernard is amazed. They then ride elevators to the top of the roof and Bernard begins to fall with her. However, Lenina rushes towards Hemholtz, who offers Bernard some soma, but he refuses, then begins chewing some sex hormone chewing gum.

Chapter 1 Journal Entry

The year is After Ford, 632, and in the hatchery where humans are conditioned and born, the director explains to the newborn children what the world they live in is now like. The director states that the humans are created from tubes including ova from humans to create them. Society is seperated by classes which are clearly placed as better or worse.

Journal Chapter 11

In this chapter, Linda and John make an appearance in front of an entire crowd of people to the Director right after he decides to Send Bernard to Iceland. After John exclaims, "Father" and everyone began to laugh, he left the room covering his ears. Everyone continues laughing at the joke of a man; the father. The director then mysteriously vanishes after his resignation.

Allusions: to Shakespeare...the tempest.
Characters: Linda, Lenina, John, Bernard, Helmholtz, and the director.

Chapter 18 Journal Entry

In this chapter, Hemholtz and Bernard are exiled and sent to an island on which rebellion is allowed. John requests to join them, but Mustapha Mond is quick to reject his preposition and informs John that they will continue the experiment. John is upset about this and soon decides to exile himself from society. Upon his exile, he begins living in a lighthouse, and constantly whips himself as punishment. Often, he thinks about Lenina, encouraging him to whip himself even more. Eventually, this attracts attention, bringing people to watch during his whipping. One man creates a feely about John, and is almost instantaneously a big hit. However, many people who watched the feely rush to John and begin chanting, "Do the whip! Do the whip! Do the whip!". After Lenina hears about this, she decides to go see John, unfortunately, John begins whipping Lenina instead immediately after she steps out of her helicopter. John rushes towards her shouting "Strumpet!" and begins whipping her and himself. Someone in the crowd shouts "Orgy Porgy!" and soon, the entire crowd joins in the ecstasy. The next day Lenina's departure, John is found, in the lighthouse dead, hanging from a noose, by delta minuses who hoped for a repetition of the party.

Because happiness is forced, unhappiness is the only freedom! which lead to John's rebellion.
Importance of this chapter: Because Aldous Huxley is too un-creative to form a real, interesting, intriquite ending, he kills off one of the protagonists and exiles the two others to a far away island.
Vocabulary: Spadeful: of or pertaining to a spade.

Chapter 16 Journal Entry

Summary: In this chapter, John, Hemholtz, and Bernard accompany Mustafa Mond in his office. Helmholtz is told that he is going to be exiled to an island in which he is given a choice on the climate. Hemholtz chooses a negative climate because he believes that he will write better. Mond rambles on about the joys and downfalls of science.
Allusions: Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices-Shakespear

In this chapter, John, who's mother had recently deceased, began throwing the poison/soma out of a window in a supply line in which soma was distributed. Upon this, a mob of Delta twins become furious and start etching their way towards John. The police soon arrive and begin spraying soma vapor in the air to calm everyone. It works and Bernard, Hemholtz, and John are taken to the police station.
Allusions: Julias Ceaser
Characters: Police Sergeant, John, Bernard Marx, Hemholtz Wattson.

Brave New World Chapter 14 Journal Entry

In this chapter, John departs Lenina's room, then heads to the hospital where is dying mother is located. He confronts her but is recognized by her as Pope´. Then, some children approach her on her dying bed while eating and ask if she's dying and why she's so fat and ugly. Out of rage, John hits one of the boys which angers the nurse. Linda then dies and John sobs uncontrollably. After one of the twins asks about his mother being alive or dead, he pushes the child away and he falls to the ground. Upon his departure he does not even turn around.

Allusions: John begins shouting God after his mother deceases.
Characters: The twins, the nurse.

Brave New World Chapter 13 Journal Entry

Summary: In this chapter, John is in Lenina's room and realizes that he is falling for her and wants to marry her. Upon his realization, he tells her, but Lenina misunderstands and strips, but this is not want John wanted. John begins screaming "Whore!" at her and quickly departs the room, and receives a phone call about his mother on her death bed.

Allusions: John alludes to the John of the bible. 12 dissciples
Simile: The noise of that prodigious slap by which her departure was accelerated was like a pistol shot.

Chapter 5 Part 1

Summary: Bernard visits twelve others in a ceremony that is often acted out and participated in that he does not want to be a part of. He pretends to fit in with the group as if he were one of them but does not want to be with them at all. The one part of it he may have enjoyed was completely ruined due to a unibrow.

Character Development: Bernard Marx is becoming more and more less fitting in and slowly drifts outside of society unnoticeably by some and very noticeably by others.

Allusion to the twelve disciples, twelve people meet and participate in the "orgy-porgy".

Morgan's unibrow is a symbol to the still-existent regressive gene in conditioning also stating that the world is not completely perfect.

Brave New World Journal Entry Chapter 6

Summary: In chapter five, Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne visit a savage resort together. Bernard discusses how he feels and that he wants to be free while Lenina believes something is wrong with him and he begins scaring her. After arriving back home he takes three grames of soma without any consideration. He is then told he will be taken to Iceland which is considered bad.
Character Development: The Director discusses with Bernard that he lost a girl who he was in love with during a vacation to a resort.

Vocabulary

Caste- noun- a group or images of people of the same opposition

Precipice- Noun- A very steep rock face or cliff.

3) Ruminating: Verb: Thinking about something.

4) Adage: Noun: A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

5) Magnanimity: Noun. The quality of being very generous.

6) Axiomatic: Adjective: self-evident.

7) Ignominy: Noun: Public shame or disgrace: The child's ignominy made him not want to enter public places.

8) Mollified: Verb: Appease the anger or anxiety of someone. The hitman killing the correct person mollified Jade.

9) Intrinsically: Adjective: Belonging naturally essential. Bernard Marx was feeling intrinsically out of place.

10) Cajolery: Noun The act of persuading someone to do something. The child's cajolery from his sister calmed him.