Lenina Crowne, a beautiful young woman whom Bernard is attracted to, agrees to accompany him to the Savage Reservation, a plot of the worst land where people remain in a natural state fenced off from the society. He pities Bernard, understanding that their intellectual leanings prevent both of them from fitting into the society. Helmholtz is tired of his job writing slogans and statements to keep people subjugated and “happy.” He is searching for a way of expressing something, but he still does not know what. Most people consider him to be odd, although he finds a confidante in Helmholtz Watson, an intellectually superior Alpha who has become disillusioned with society.
They eradicated religion, monogamy, and most other individualistic traits and stabilized society with the caste system and the drug, Soma.Įarly in the novel, we meet Bernard, an Alpha who is a non-conformist. After a Nine Years' War with anthrax bombs and then an economic crisis, the world reformers seized control. He explains that people were once individualistic and had children through live births, which led to intimacy and complex family dynamics, preventing happiness and social stability. Mustapha Mond, an Alpha and one of the top World Controllers, lectures the students about the history of the current utopian world order. The facility conditions toddlers through two techniques: Neo-Pavlovian, which use electric shocks and sirens, and Hypnopaedia, which plays ethical phrases on repeat when children are sleeping. Each child is raised without their biological parents.
An assembly line creates embryos babies growing inside bottles are segregated into castes. The book opens with Tomakin, an Alpha and the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, giving a group of young students a tour of the facilities. The society discourages familial bonding and the consumption of goods becomes a replacement for religion. Members of every caste receive a narcotic called Soma to prevent them from feeling pain or unhappiness. The ruling elite, called Alphas and Betas act as scientists, politicians, and other top minds Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are the lower castes and represent the world's industrial workers.
World Controllers run the society through a five-tiered caste system. The story envisions a world that, in its quest for social stability and peace, is in fact devoid of emotion, love, beauty, and true relationships. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a dystopian novel set several centuries in the future.
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