Chapters 1-6 Summary
The novel opens at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in the year 632 A.F. (after ford) with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning giving a tour of the factory that produces and conditions human beings for the predetermined lives. The tour includes the fertilization of eggs, the bottling of fetus, and the conditioning of young children. Soon after the tour you are introduced to Bernard Marx, an alpha plus who is not very well respected. Bernard is small for and alpha plus and he does not partake in soma, a calming drug, or the common games as often as one should so he is somewhat frowned upon. Even though Bernard is seen as anti-social, a young woman Lenina Crowne shows interest in him. He later …show more content…
Everything is very dirty and unsettling to Lenina and Bernard. The village is so disgusting to Lenina that she relies on soma for most of the trip and is usually unconscious. The time at the village is very different for the civilized Bernard and Lenina, but it helps Bernard realize that his boring life is pretty great compared to life in the reservation. There is no soma, unnatural child making, or class systems in the reservation and it makes Bernard think a lot about his life back at home in the modern …show more content…
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At this point in the novel, Bernard is begging Mustapha Mond not to exile him to an island. Mond is not very pleased with his begging and has him taken away to be gassed with vaporized soma. Bernard is taken out of the room by three men while sobbing, kicking, and screaming. The World Controller goes onto say that Bernard and Hemholtz will meet the most interesting people that do not fit into society either and that it is much better than death. Mond continues the conversation by asking what island they would like to be exiled to in a way that makes exile seem like a light-hearted issue.
"Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet." (Pg.
The novel opens at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in the year 632 A.F. (after ford) with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning giving a tour of the factory that produces and conditions human beings for the predetermined lives. The tour includes the fertilization of eggs, the bottling of fetus, and the conditioning of young children. Soon after the tour you are introduced to Bernard Marx, an alpha plus who is not very well respected. Bernard is small for and alpha plus and he does not partake in soma, a calming drug, or the common games as often as one should so he is somewhat frowned upon. Even though Bernard is seen as anti-social, a young woman Lenina Crowne shows interest in him. He later …show more content…
Everything is very dirty and unsettling to Lenina and Bernard. The village is so disgusting to Lenina that she relies on soma for most of the trip and is usually unconscious. The time at the village is very different for the civilized Bernard and Lenina, but it helps Bernard realize that his boring life is pretty great compared to life in the reservation. There is no soma, unnatural child making, or class systems in the reservation and it makes Bernard think a lot about his life back at home in the modern …show more content…
226)
At this point in the novel, Bernard is begging Mustapha Mond not to exile him to an island. Mond is not very pleased with his begging and has him taken away to be gassed with vaporized soma. Bernard is taken out of the room by three men while sobbing, kicking, and screaming. The World Controller goes onto say that Bernard and Hemholtz will meet the most interesting people that do not fit into society either and that it is much better than death. Mond continues the conversation by asking what island they would like to be exiled to in a way that makes exile seem like a light-hearted issue.
"Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet." (Pg.