1. BRAVE NEW WORLD
{By Aldous Huxley
Summary of Chapters 1 and 2

2. Location: Central London Hatchery and
Conditioning Centre.
This is a centre for artificial fertilization
and development of human embryos.
Time: A.F 632 (F stands for Ford-the
{ fictional God in the novel.)
Chapter 1 and 2

3.  DHC is giving a tour to a group of students.
 The class are studying the process of human
development from fertilization to childhood.
 The tour is divided into 5 rooms where different
tasks are completed during the development
process.
{  Embryos move along a conveyor belt through the
centre for 267 days.
 Human embryos are divided into 5 Castes. These
castes are separated due to intelligence.
Overview

4. Highly intelligent ,Highly-skilled workers.
Wear Grey.
Moderately intelligent, Skilled
workers.
Wear Mulberry.
skilled workers.
Wear Green
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Low intelligence, semi-
Very low
intelligence. Illiterate. Wear
Machinists. black
Wear Khaki.
Caste System

5. I. Eggs are artificially fertilized in a “soup” of
spermatozoa.
II. Embryos are inspected for abnormalities.
III. Embryos undergo the “Bokanovsky Process”
{ IV. Put into incubators.
Tour Rooms
Room 1 – Fertilizing Room

6. I. Embryos covered in peritoneum (Lining of a
pig’s stomach).
II. Embryos are put into a saline solution.
III. “Podsnap’s technique” is introduced.
 Produces many more eggs from a single ovary
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very fast.
 About 11,000 siblings in 2 years from one
ovary.
Room 2 – Bottling Room

7. I. Embryo bottles are labelled to determine:
1. Heredity (what ovary it came from).
2. Date of Fertilization
3. Gender, T for Male and O for female
{ 4. Infertile Females are called Freemartins and
are labelled with a ?
Room 3 – Labelling Room

8.  Embryos are “predestined” to 1 of the 5 castes.
 Conditioning of Embryos begins.
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Room 4 – Predestination
Room

9.  The tour from the Director continues.
 We see how babies are conditioned after they
have been Decanted (Born)
 Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning is introduced
{ Babies taught to dislike idea of family, fun and

leisure to improve work rates.
 Hypnopedia and sleep teaching are used to
condition babies.
Chapter 2

10. BRAVE NEW
{
WORLD
CHAPTER 3

11. CHARACTERS
The main characters in the chapter are:
D.H.C.  who is The Director of the Hatchery
and Conditioning Centre and who is showing the
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building and facilities to some students.
The Controller, Mustapha Mond  who is “The
Resident Controller for Western Europe” (one of
the ten controllers in the world) who introduces
and explains to the students about the philosophy
of the World State.

12.  Henry Foster  who is an Alpha male of the
World State.
 Assistant Predestinator
 Lenina Crowne  a ‘pneumatic’ girl from the
World State.

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Fanny  Lenina’s friend
 Bernard Marx  a strange member of the
Psychology Bureau, who acts and thinks
differently from the others.

13. SUMMARY
 Chapter 3 explains three different
situations happening at the same time.

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The first one takes place in the garden.
 The others share the setting: the baths
and the changing rooms.

14. In the first scenario:
About six hundred children are playing a game
of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy in the garden.
They play sophisticated games because they are
conditioned to consume a lot.
Some other children are playing erotic games,
which was abnormal and immoral before the
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time of ‘Our Ford’. Students laugh at this.
The Director explains to students that now it is
normal not to have intimacy, which was
restricted in the past.
* “Everyone belongs to everyone else”

15. Summary Chapter 4
{ Brave New World, Albert Serrat

16.  Lenina and Bernard, are planning a trip to a
savage reservation in New Mexico, where
people live like in the old days.
 Bernard is a psychologist but although he’s a
important man in the ideal society, he feels an
outsider because he is different from the other
Alpha+, he’s shorter than them.

17.  After this, Bernard talks with a man called
Benito Hoover. Benito is a very kind man and
he offers some soma to Bernard, as he noticed
he feels sad.
 Soma is a substance that people take to feel
better, which has no side effects.
 Bernard gets annoyed an refuses it.

18.  Then Bernard, meets his good friend,
Helmholtz Watson , who feels an outsider, like
Bernard, and feels that he has some ideas ,
which he doesn’t know how to write with the
exact words .
 While they’re talking, Bernard feels as if
someone is listening to them, but when
Helmholtz opens the door of the apartment
there’s no one there.

19. Chapter 5
•Death is important for society.
•Each class member is happy to belong to
that class, and does not want to be in
another.
•Soma is used to overcome any shock. It
does not solve the problems but hides
them in sleep and unconsciousness.
•Everybody does what society wants, even
if that is not exactly what they want. Their
liberty is conformity.
•Solidarity Service.

20. Chapter 6
•Everything must be public. There are no secrets
because if somebody does something secretly it is
not shareable and therefore he has done nothing:
“That mania for doing things in private. Which meant,
in practice, not doing anything at all”
•History loses its meaning. All that comes from the
past is negative.
•Conditioning:
–Conditioned characters: Loss of identity, repetitive
behaviour
–Non conditioned characters: Dynamic, creative
•Mental development has been kept at a childish
level
•Superficial and brief relationships- total dominion
over emotions
•Map of New Mexico
•The reserve:
–images
–comparison with a Lager

27. Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
chapter 7 & 8

28. structure
1. summary of chapter 7 & 8
2. analysis of both chapters
3. short characterizations
4. comparison book- movie
5. comparison reservation- world state

29. chapter 7
- Lenina and Bernard  visit oft the reservation as a common trip
- community celebration at the reservation
- pounding of drums
- man whips a youth until he collapses
- Lenina  horrified
- Bernard  interested and fascinated
- meeting John
- introduces Lenina and Bernard to his mother Linda
- Linda  from the other place outside the reservation/ suffered an injury/ rescued by
some Indians
- tells a lot about herself/ her attitudes/ the past

30. - Bernard interested in John’s life John tells him a lot about his childhood
- Bernard asks John if he would like to go to London with him
motive: wants to embarrass the Director by exposing him as John’s father
- John accepts, but only when Linda is allowed to go too Bernard promises
- he asks if Bernard is married to Lenina, but Bernard tells him that he’s not
chapter 8

31. - Bernard’s role as protagonist continues in this section
- appears less like political rebel, more like social rebel
 believes that changing society only way for him to fit in
- very important: meeting of Bernard and John beginning of
events negative consequences for both
- Linda’s experiences on Reservation demonstrate dependence
of World State citizens towards “civilization”
- Linda on arrival: helpless
- examples: doesn’t know how to cook or clean, horrified of
taking care of a child
- turns to mescal as replacement for soma only method for
dealing with unpleasant situations
analysis

33. characterizations
Bernard Marx
- thin and very small, even though he’s an Alpha
- very intelligent
- works in Psychology Bureau of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning
Centre specialist for hypnopeadia
- outsider, because he doesn’t feel confident as other people
- others say, when he was still bottled, someone accidentally poured alcohol in
his blood surrogate
- likes to be alone, other People think thats strange
- doesn't like taking soma wants to think clearly
- interested in culture of reservation
- thinks about social problems, the treatment of women

34. Lenina
- belongs to Beta-Class
- beautiful, red haired
- works in centre of brood rearing and breeding standards
- most time happy, because of soma
- relationships to Bernard and John first collapse in contrast to them she thinks
relation with feelings= abnormal thing
- at reservation: disgusted of old man, mothers with babies, Linda and John
- sad/ hurt that John does‘nt flirt with her take the initiative but John does‘nt react
- later: after exploring the "other world“ rebel against the World State (everyone
belongs to everyone else)

35. John
- son of Linda and the director
childhood:
- grown up in reservation, outside the World State, listening to Linda’s fabulous stories
about the other place
- felt isolated and rejected, partly because Linda slept with so many men, partly
because people of the village never accepted him
- began to read books Shakespeare became his favourite book, started reading avidly
until he could quote passages by heart plays gave voice to all of his repressed
emotions

36. Linda
- John‘s mother
- grown up in World State get pregnant from director banished
- misses World State, civilization, soma
- hated by women of the village because she had sex with their men one day she was
beaten with a whip by 3 women
- Linda’s lover: Popé brought her an alcoholic drink called mescal began drinking
heavily

37. comparison book- movie
BOOK MOVIE
-normal arrival with the helicopter +afterwards -crash  Lenina and Bernard alive;
they have to go a specific distance on foot just pilot injured
-cars coming  hope of help
-after fight: other people leaving; one
guy stayed  John
-brings them to reservation
-strange celebration -no celebration at the reservation
young man is beaten until he -John still has some ritual wounds +
collapses doesn’t want to talk about
-John wants to be at the place of the
injured guy; wants to feel pain
-Lenina  doesn’t like the reservation -Lenina  very interested in John’s
and the village people life
-also doesn’t like Linda -has no aversion towards Linda
-is cautious about John

38. comparison reservation-
world state
RESERVATION WORLD STATE
-no technology, nature, books like -mainly technology
Shakespeare
-unrestrained knowledge -security and order
-emotions, love -everyone belongs to everyone
-families: women are getting -children are created scientifically
pregnant, children have mother in bottles
and father
-natural aging and illness -no aging, no diseases
-humans have to manage -BNWorlders take soma if
problems something doesn‘t work as it should

39. presentation by
Caroline Halwas
and Nele Tretow
In cooperation with Vivien Schulz,
Jolin Neuß, Henrike Buchardt,
Marie-Pauline Wiechmann,
Michelle Siatkowski, Vanessa Ernst

40. Chapter 9
In chapter nine Bernard, John, Linda and Lenina is back in London
after being in the savage territory. Lenina, who found the territory
very disturbing, takes Soma that will make her sleep for at least 18
hours. So she has gone on Soma holiday. Bernard can´t seem to go to
sleep and in the morning he decides to go to Santa Fé and get the
business and information done about his guests that he brought with
him. He there speaks to Mustapha Mond about why these people are so
important to research. Mond agrees with Bernard and send him away to
the Warden of the Reservation office where he get the papers about
Linda and John.

41. John who is new in the “other” world somehow gets the feeling that
he
has been left by Bernard and Lenina and breaks down. But he gets
back
up and goes into the room where Lenina is taking her holiday. He
now
gets these sexual feelings about her. He goes through her clothes
and
looks at the zippers of different items of clothes. She is laying
there on the bed and he starts looking at her.
He is reciting pieces from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet about
how
her hands, lips and body looks like laying there. He is struggling to
prevent himself from touching her but comes to senses when he
realises
that it would defile her. As this is happening Bernards helicopter is
arriving back and John feels even more guilty and runs away and
hides.
In this part of the book John is introduced for the first time to
their world, which of course is overwhelming for him. He is quite
amazed by their world, thinking about it as a utopia, seeing the best
parts about it, and not everything else.

42. In this chapter morale is important. You can notice it when John is
about to touch Lenina. But he comes to his senses and changes his
mind. This is because he doesn’t want to defile her. This has to do
with morale and with what is right and wrong. What becomes
increasingly clear, is how different the two worlds are, since John
struggles NOT to touch her, and anyone else would have felt that they
should do it.
The question is whether you are happier doing things in a slow
restricted way or in a fast, non-private way.

43. Chapter 10
In chapter ten we get to go back to the factory where all the babies
are being produced. The director who has decided that Bernard is to be
sent to Iceland has arranged a meeting with Bernard in the Fertilizing
room. He has decided to send him away because of his behaviour and his
way of going against ford and society. He describes it as “Sacrificing
one individual for the greater good of the society is no great loss
since the Hatchery can churn out dozens of new babies.”
When Bernard arrives the director gets the attention from everyone in
the room. He then speaks openly to the Bernard colleges about why and
where he is being sent away. Bernard gets one chance to say why he
should stay it he takes it. He then brings in Linda and to the people
in the room this is a frightening experience. Linda who looks dirty
and has a crooked smile and doesn’t fit into their society terrifies
them. Linda who’s had a baby with the director openly says this so
everyone can hear, making them very interested since the director has
broken an important rule in fathering a child. He denies this of
course in front of everybody but John comes in and shouts “My father”.
Everybody else in the room is now laughing about the humiliation and
it’s too much for the director and he runs out with his hands pressed
against his ears.

44. Here there are both utopia and dystopia events. They sort of go into
together here. Because the Director sees his purpose of keeping the
perfection that is in London. He sees that the best way of doing that
is to send away Bernard and then making sure that his idéas of what is
right and wrong doesn't spread on to others. So here we get a glimpse
of how the world should be Utopia. But we also get another view when
Linda and John comes in. Because we now get to see what could go wrong
with the way they are living. This is what frightens the staff in the
fertilizing room. You get to see how fragile the world of ford is.