Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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.

1 comment:

  1. The summary, itself, is outstanding, but you have quite a few grammar errors here. Your first sentence is a run-on (think about using a semi-colon after Alpha-Pluses and before John): you need to exchange some of you semi-colons for either commas or colons and you need to capitalizes all the names of the castes - such as Deltas, Betas, etc.

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