“But queer that Alphas and Betas won’t make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there” Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: Refers to hypnopaedia and that people are built upon the ideas of the StateWhen: During the tour (says this to the students)Possible words removed: “child”, “adult”, “suggestions”, “State” But all these suggestions are our suggestions! Suggestions from the State” The mind that judges and desires and decides - made up of these suggestions. The adult’s mind too - all his life long. “Till last the child’s mind is these suggestions and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. Foster refers to the conditioning process during the tourPossible words removed: “happiness”, “virtue”, “unescapable”, “social”, “destiny”` Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: World State controls everyone, reduced freedom equates to happinessWhen: After Mr. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny”

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.“And that that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do.

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.Main Characters: Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, John, Linda, DHC, Mustapha Mond.Themes: Utopia/dystopia technocracy individual vs.

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