Summary of Key Themes in "Brave New World"
Summary of Key Themes in "Brave New World"
CHAPTER 1
In this chapter, an introduction is made to the world from where man originates, that is from
first, a human incubation and conditioning center is shown in London
where a method called pavlovian is used to reproduce humans, a director
incubation and conditioning (DIC) provides an introduction to students about
this incubation center. All the poles are presented to them, which were Alpha (the most
high) beta, gamma, delta, and Epsilon (the lowest). They are introduced to a guide named Foster.
what is it that takes them through all the baby rooms
CHAPTER 2
In this chapter, the students are taken to see a conditioning for delta children,
they are shown how to hate and fear certain things, in this case, flowers and
the books, then when they took the flowers or books, an electroshock was applied to them
After that, they would hate all flowers and other related things.
También luego de ver eso el DIC los llevaba a ver el condicionamiento por hipnopedia,
Then I told them how it had been discovered and how it was applied.
CHAPTER 3
In this chapter, students begin to see how children were distracted,
they were in the center courtyard and it shows that a child runs away in fright from a
girl in her erotic games is also counted like before in the past the people
they only saw it as normal that they played erotically only from the age of 21 and of course the
students were horrified. Then they are introduced to Mustafa Mond who
receives and responds to some of their questions and tells them how the current civilization
began to destroy the past here also begins to mix the history of the
protagonistas del libro, Lenina Henry Foster, Bernard Marx.
CHAPTER 4
Here it begins in an elevator where Lenina gets on and she sees all the men.
Bernard approaches her and since Bernard was small because it was said that when he was
an embryo was mistaken with a substance. She approached him and told him that she wanted to go with
On vacation, he was very shy and uncomfortable, but then Lenina went with him.
Henry went for a walk while Bernard went to chat with an old friend Helmholtz.
about your trip with Lenina to clarify doubts.
CHAPTER 5
In this chapter, Bernard goes to a social gathering that he attends alone in order to feel included.
of society. In this meeting, Bernard is caught up in a kind of ritual to his, not
let's say God because they did not accept gods but rather their leader Ford, here Bernard is
He realizes that everyone can communicate with Ford except him, after the ritual everyone.
they are ecstatic except for Bernard who must pretend that he came into contact with Ford because
he fears being discriminated against even more.
CHAPTER 6
In this chapter, Lenina tells her friends about her upcoming trip with Bernard, then
Lenina travels with Bernard to see a women's wrestling show and after that Bernard
he takes Lenina to see the sea and exposes his way of thinking which by the way was very
different from the others, Lenina is horrified, then Bernard takes her back and
On the way, Bernard relaxes and starts to pet Lenina; after that, they go to the...
Bernard's apartment, the next day Bernard goes to validate his travel permit.
Lenina had a bad country, a reservation of uncivilized people, this is where the DIC tells her to
Bernard about his experience when he traveled and where he lost a lower beta woman.
After that, the DIC gets irritated and tells Bernard that he has received bad comments.
about him and his work, then Bernard begins his journey with Lenina where he receives a
call telling him that they threatened to send him to Iceland and of course he gets irritated but it doesn't
takes on greater importance.
CHAPTER 7
In this chapter, they arrive in Bad Country, and Lenina is horrified to see a man for the first time.
old and wrinkled man then he is horrified to see a ritual of the savages where
They were whipping a man for initiation; after that, she sees a wild man with dark skin.
white and feels a small attraction and realizes that he was the son of an Indian woman
white and blonde who was actually a former civilized person who had gotten lost in that place and
gave birth to that young man named John (Bernard was told that John's father
He called Tomakin and immediately knew it was Thomas the director who had him.
threatened) and the Indian was called Linda, Lenina was horrified to see how it had been.
deformed Linda, after that they talk for a while, although Lenina is very upset.
CHAPTER 8
In this chapter the savage speaks with Bernard who asks him to tell everything about his life
And this one tells him that he was always discriminated against for being different from others, he tells him that
his mother was also discriminated against and mistreated by the women of the village
because she always had relationships with all the men, it shows how her mother was the
a living example of the contradiction between the civilized world and the uncivilized one, as she...
he wanted his son by nature but he also hated him because he was raised to
to disgust the children and that one should not have children, he also tells her that in the village
They never let him perform the initiation rite due to his physical condition.
the young people of his age were hitting him as his mother told him about the civilized world
and teaches him to read, says that the wise man of the village, in order not to continue discriminating against him, ...
he began to teach all the things needed to survive. After that, Bernard invites them to
London to blackmail the director who wanted to send him to Iceland.
CHAPTER 9
In this chapter, the Savage sees Lenina sleeping from the soma and admires her and quotes some.
Shakespeare quotes and then you hear the sound of a helicopter and it takes off.
the
CHAPTER 10
In this chapter, Bernard returns to London with Lenina and a little surprise, the savage.
and Linda. Then the director calls Bernard to announce his transfer to Iceland but to
Bernard raised his objection to her and showed it to Linda, and upon seeing it, he was horrified.
astonished and beautiful, she embraces him and tells him that she had a child with him, and at this, John enters and shouts -
"Father!" - to which this one is ridiculed in front of the entire plant and of course the transfer.
It never happened to Bernard since the director was dismissed for such a disgraceful incident.
what happened.
CHAPTER 11
In this chapter, Bernard begins to be taken into account within society for the
just the fact of constantly protecting the wild one led to many parties to
that they met the savage after that, Bernard begins to become full of himself.
head and feels very powerful in society to the point that he tries to ridicule his
old friend Helmholtz and gets angry with him, then arranges a date with Lenina and the savage
so that they go to the sensorama in which the savage is horrified by everything he felt and him
he expresses his view of the world to Lenina, who is now calmed from her encounter with
Lenina says goodbye to her and Lenina wanted him to stay but since John doesn't have the
same mentality as hers bids farewell melancholically and leaves.
CHAPTER 12
In this chapter, Bernard throws a party with very important officials to
let them know the wild one, but he refuses to come out and does not let them know him and so it is.
how does Bernard's giant egocentrism end because everyone gets angry with him
thus he returns to the normal life he had before and reconciles with his old friend
Helmholtz and in his early talks they address the topic of their recent misfortunes and
Helmholtz recounts that he had also had difficulties with authority for some
verses that he had written for his students about loneliness and they obviously it
They reported it, then it was read to the savage and he was enchanted, and he reads some to him.
excerpts and works of Shakespeare some about the relationship between mother and son and of course
Helmholtz laughed and the savage felt a bit bad, Bernard begins to show.
symptoms of jealousy between them due to their new friendship.
CHAPTER 13
In this chapter, Lenina feels too attached to the savage and does not know that
to consult a friend and she tells him that she is very upset and that he should just go
go there and get what she wants, after that Lenina goes to the savage and begins to
to hug and kiss him, to this the savage responds that he wants to make a sacrifice to
to feel worthy and be able to marry her, Lenina does not understand this and starts to hug him
again and the savage reproaches her and says -whore- and insults her repeatedly, wants
he should go, and Lenina hides in the bathroom; then they call the Savage to tell him that his
mother was very ill in the hospital to which he goes to see her.
CHAPTER 14
This is where the wild one goes to see Linda, he runs desperately to see Linda when he sees her.
he gets very depressed because she is very deteriorated after that, a group of children enter
delta in their conditioning for death, they are terrified by seeing Linda.
aspect, to this the savage responds very angrily and sends a child flying and the
the nurse reproaches him for his behavior and takes the children away, after that the savage sees.
to his mother who was already dying and watches her die, the savage runs to a nurse and tells her
he asks for help for his mother but there is not one; he breaks down crying after that, a little boy.
he starts to laugh at what John does to push him aside and throw him out.
CHAPTER 15
In this chapter, the savage goes mad and heads towards a soma distribution.
Deltas and he takes the soma box and tries to free them from that poison which according to
they were distributing, -be free- shouted the savage to the deltas who began to get disorganized
to obtain their ration of soma, then the mischief and fights began where the
The savage began to defend himself from the twins and they started to help the savage.
Helmholtz and Bernard. Then the police arrived to restore order and released a cloud of
pills to calm the people then they take John, Helmholtz, and Bernard to the office of
intervener.
CHAPTER 16
In this chapter of the book, they arrive at a court of Mustafa Mond where they ask the savage.
that if he liked this civilization to which he replied no, then Mustafa Mond said to him
exposes the civilized world as it is and its foundations to what the savage does not understand much
and they discuss why old things were not allowed (this can be found more
in detail in the essay I have written) and Mustafa Mond presents his foundations
ideological, then dictates the sentences to Bernard which is to be sent to Iceland and
Helmholtz is sent to the Falkland Islands.
CHAPTER 17
This chapter continues with the previous discussion but adds a variant: religion.
they begin to discuss it, Mustafa Mond presents his arguments (again more
detailed in the essay conducted) which are that with religion there is instability and that
he is the Nemesis of civilized society and the savage presents his arguments that are everything
opposite that Mustafa Mond presents after they have this discussion Mustafa Mond
ask the wild one where he wants to be in his sentence and the wild one responds that
wants to be apart from all society and be a savage.
CAPITULO 18
In this chapter, the savage informs everyone that he is a savage again, but this time he will go
just to live in the mountains. After living there for a while, people realize that this is the
wild alone and everyone is going to watch it in their helicopters to which the wild one responds
shooting arrows at them and they flee in terror but only one stays to watch it and
he records without the wild one realizing and makes a movie about him, and after its premiere
everyone invades him and goes to see him. The furious savage starts to whip himself and
to the people who saw it after a few days and after people started to perform a
they leave for almost an entire afternoon, the next day they return to see the savage but he had
suicide by hanging from a lighthouse
Essay
THE SOCIETY OF THE HAPPY WORLD
The happy world and its society were based on stability and happiness, and for that reason they ...
they prohibited culture, emotional attachments, and above all individuality which was, or
Yes, a factor that causes instability in a society and that is why they prohibited it, to
that their world be stable, they had no religions because it was said that with a god or
a religion existed, self-denial and industrialization were not compatible with that, with
self-denial was also prohibited because in religion, just like in the happy world
happiness was also sought, but unlike the happy world, religion demanded a lot
things, changes, sacrifices and along that path, people changed their minds many times and
it became unstable, which was the Nemesis of the happy world, it was tied to attachments and many
things that would lead to individuality and consequently to social instability, in
change the happy world already had people with happiness since they were born and they were
stable. That is why they prohibited religion, they also prohibited books or more than anything else the
old for not contributing to the new and to social stability, nor the books because it was
that people had a solitary entertainment and they did not accept loneliness because
llevaba a la individualidad, tampoco permitían la belleza de la naturaleza porque
it was simply free and did not contribute to the consumerism that was one of the foundations of the world
happy.
In conclusion, their society, their beliefs or "non-beliefs" were for a noble purpose which was
The 'happiness', deprived many things that personally define the person in order to
enjoy the happiness and the essence of life, which is the pursuit of happiness. In that
search one is defined as is and the changes and/or losses in that search are
necessary to find and enjoy happiness. This happy world suggests something that
it goes against life, in my opinion it is not right to deprive a person of it
essential to life, of that self-knowledge that one achieves, halfway, on the road of
his search. One should not be deprived of the right to search for any reason.
happiness because as I have said to enjoy happiness one must be an individual
complete and wise, wise in the sense of having had all the experiences in seeking the
happiness, after all, depriving someone of the right to life itself, should not be done to them
nobody. With this, I disapprove of the philosophy of life proposed by the happy world.