![]() ![]() When Bernard and Lenina bring the two back to London, John serves as the mouthpiece for the conflicts between the Reservation, which still abides by traditional values, and the technocracy of the World State. On the Reservation, they meet Linda, a former citizen of the World State who had stayed behind, and her son John, born through a “viviparous” procreation, a scandal in the World State. He is accompanied by Lenina Crowne, an attractive foetus technician. Bernard Marx, a petty and depressive psychiatrist who works for the Hatchery, is sent on a mission to the New Mexico Reservation, where “savages” live. It is a society that rests on consumerism and collectivism and has a rigid caste system. Fun Fact: Kurt Vonnegut admitted to ripping off the plot of Brave New World for Player Piano (1952), claiming that Brave New World’s plot “had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We.'"īrave New World follows a few characters as they live their lives in the seemingly utopian World State metropolis of London.Notable Adaptations: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Brave New World for SyFy.The boys learn about the Bokanovsky and Podsnap Processes that allow the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. Brave New World, written in 1931 by author, psychonaut, and philosopher Aldous Huxley, is well known but hasn’t quite had the pop-culture breakthrough that the other three did. ![]() Main Characters: Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, John, Linda, DHC, Mustapha Mond The novel opens in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, where the Director of the Hatchery and one of his assistants, Henry Foster, are giving a tour to a group of boys.Themes: Utopia/dystopia technocracy individual vs. ![]()
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