10/18/2023 0 Comments Chapter 14 brave new world pdf![]() ![]() High, low, from a multitude of separate throats, only two voices squeaked or growled. “Who are you pushing? Where do you think you’re going?” But his mind was elsewhere-with death, with his grief, and his remorse mechanically, without consciousness of what he was doing, he began to shoulder his way through the crowd. At six, when their working day was over, the two Groups assembled in the vestibule of the Hospital and were served by the Deputy Sub-Bursar with their soma ration.įrom the lift the Savage stepped out into the midst of them. The next morning, reporters find that the Savage has hung himself.THE menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red headed female and seventy-eight dark dolychocephalic male twins, respectively. ![]() There is a huge riot which turns into an orgy. One day a photographer makes a popular film about The Savage. The Savage flees, planning to become independent. Mond says that there is a choice between machinery, scientific medicine, and universal happiness- or God. Mustapha Mond and the Savage speak of religion. He attempts to destroy a large supply of soma, causing a riot, and the police take him away, along with Bernard and Helmholtz. Suddenly, Linda wakes, recognizes him, and dies. He hears the low-caste workers and several children talking badly about her and has a violent reaction. The Savage is in the Hospital for the Dying to visit his mother. Disgusted by the sexual degradation of the society, he violently rejects her. He tells her he loves her and she undresses. Lenina is absent-minded, thinking about the Savage. The Savage refuses to appear at an assembly. Lenina is interested in The Savage, and so she takes him out, and much to her chagrin, they do not have sex. Bernard identifies with John and invites him to return to London with them.īernard triumphantly presents Linda and John, the Director's lost woman and illegitimate son. He tells his story to Bernard, and it turns out that he is the illegitimate son of the Director and Linda, a woman who disappeared twenty-five years ago. Lenina shudders at the unclean conditions. He and Lenina go to The Savage Reservation. The next day, when Lenina asks him if he had fun, Bernard is pained at the way she seems to degrade herself. She convinces him to take soma, and they go back to his rooms and have sex. He tries to show her the ocean, and to express some of his subversive views to her, but she cries. A group of men and women sing and take soma together, and it eventually turns into an "orgy-porgy". The next day is Bernard Marx's Solidarity Service Day. ![]() Lenina and Henry eat dinner, go on a soma-holiday, and see a concert of synthetic music. Following her departure, there is more bitterness on the part of Bernard concerning his own inferiority. Lenina confirms with Bernard that she would like to go on a trip with him to The Savage Reservation. There are some short interludes between Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller of Europe, and the students Lenina and her friend Fanny and Bernard Marx and Henry Foster. They pass onto the conditioning rooms, where they reinforce the caste divisions by sleep-teaching. He explains the scientific process by which human beings are fertilized and custom-made, and shows them the Social Predestination room, where workers create the social castes. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is leading a tour group of young students around a lab. Ford is the God-surrogate that many citizens of the World State believe is also Freud, the controversial psychosexual psychologist. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, in the years A.F., or After Ford. ![]()
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