Lenina, despite her discomfort with Bernard's preference for individualism, goes with him to the Savage reservation. Lenina is puzzled when Henry reminds her that humans of all castes are physico-chemically equal - phosphorus collected from burning an Alpha's body is just as useful as the phosphorus from an Epsilon.īernard Marx attends a Solidarity Service, which is an orgy of sex and soma dedicated to Ford.

While Henry and Lenina are flying to a cabaret, they discuss death as if it were a mundane concept. When Lenina takes Bernard up publicly on his offer to go to a Savage reservation, Bernard acts embarrassed because she says, 'That is, if you still want to have me.' When Lenina leaves, Benito Hoover, too, offers Bernard soma.īernard, ruminating on his feeling like an outcast and his un-Alpha-like physical inadequacy, visits Helmholtz Watson, who shares his feeling that something is wrong with society.

In a third scene, Henry attempts to give Bernard Marx some soma, a drug described as 'Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant.' The reader learns that Bernard had invited Lenina to a 'savage' (Native America) reservation, a fact that will be important later in the book. Meanwhile, two women, Fanny and Lenina discussed the fact that Lenina had been dating only Henry Foster for four months. He explained how promiscuity and self-pleasuring were considered immoral, instead of obligations to society that were encouraged. The first is a continuation of the tour of students, now under the supervision of Mustapha Mond, one of the ten World Controllers. There are multiple settings in this chapter. Christianity seems to have been replaced by a worship of 'Our Ford', and the cross has been replaced by a 'T' (as in Ford's Model T). and his students continue to the Infant Nurseries and Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms, where infants are conditioned and children are indoctrinated through hypnopaedia. A caste system is mentioned but not thoroughly explained. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (D.H.C.) conducts a tour of students, explaining the process and why it is done. The novel begins in a bleak building known as the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, where standardized fetuses are grown in bottles on an assembly line.

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