Bernard thinks of a plan to get Linda and John to the controlled world and eventually sets up a meeting with Mustapha. John thinks Bernard ditched the plan and left him so he broke in and started going through Lenina's stuff. John sees Lenina sleeping and watches her while he quotes Romeo and Juliet. John though about taking off Leninas clothes but he decides against it and shortly after Bernard showed up with the helicopter.
Bernard is amazed by the contrast in society and tells John to tell him stories from the beginning. He talks about Pope and how he always brought alcohol which is similar to Soma and had sex with Linda. Linda is whipped by a bunch of other women because she had been sleeping around. Linda had always been mean to John except she did teach him to read. John eventually conspires against and tries to kill Pope but he ends up failing but was called brave and didn't receive punishment. John and Bernard agree that no matter what society if you're different then you would be alone. Bernard then asks John if he wants to go to London and decided that his mother could come along because John wanted her too.
Lenina and Bernard are at the reservation and are scared of the entire situation. Everything is dirty, there is Indians running around half naked with paint on them and they see an old man which doesn't exist in the controlled world. After a while there is a ceremony where a boy gets whipped until he collapses. Everyone leaves while Bernard and Lenina stay behind terrified. John walks up to them and asks if they are from the new world and he tells them about his mom Linda and that his dad is the director Tom.
Lenina is planning to go with Bernard to New Mexico instead of going with Henry instead of Benito. On their date Bernard turned down all of her ideas and said he wanted to go walking or be alone and talk and he didn't take any Soma because he would rather be miserable than fake being happy. Later after talk of being free and turning off the radio Bernard started feeling up Lenina then took four tablets of soma and had sex with her. Later the director was talking about a relationship that he had on the reservation and said that if Bernard keeps acting out of character then he would get sent to Iceland.
When people die they are burned and their phosphorus is collected from them and they have optimized it to recover most it. This shows that no matter what class that everyone ends up being the same thing. In part 2 Bernard goes to a solitary service day where everyone worships their fordship and Bernard takes some Soma and pretends he hears Ford coming and joins in with everyone else. At the end everyone has a big orgy and Bernard is miserable especially because the girl that he was paired with had a unibrow.
Bernard and Lenina make plans for a date while in an elevator full of people Lenina has been with. Shortly after she leaves for a date with Henry which emphasizes the point that everyone is supposed to like everybody else. Bernard commands a Delta minus worker to prepare his helicopter except he doesn't feel too secure even though he is an Alpha because he is undersized. We are introduced to Helmholtz which is out of place in society because he is too smart.
A bunch of children are taking part in sexual games all over the place outside. One boy is taken away because he doesn't take part in the play. There are ten world controllers and there is one in the group called Mustapha Mond. The controller talks about the old times when there were oridnary houses without perfumes and massages and there were a bunch of emotions. We are introduced to Lenina who was going to see Henry Foster which is a bad thing because everyone is supposed to belong to everyone else. Bernard the main character is introduced and he likes to spend time alone and is under developed for his class.
Babies are brought out to play with books and flowers but are shocked and sirens blare so the babies learn to hate those things. Words like mom and dad and talking about having babies is touchy topic because the students are embarrassed. The Beta class in this chapter is having a class on Class consciousness telling them why their class is the best to be in so they are always happy. In this chapter we learn that classes all wear their own color clothing .
People no longer produce offspring but are engineered. There are also casts that the fetus' are designated into which include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. The clones are programmed to enjoy whatever type of work they do no matter what class they are in and the fetus' are poisoned and oxygen deprived to create different classes (Epsilon being the dumbest).The director takes students through the factories and describes the process to the students. This society learned how to fully mature people at a very young age.
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