Soon though, the relationship between the two men begins to suffer and John is revealed to be a bit of a loose cannon and underdeveloped emotionally. When they get back, John is treated as a pseudo-celebrity because of his natural birth and Bernard becomes something of a de facto handler. John tells the pair that he is eager to see the world and asks that they take him back to The World State. There they meet a young man named John who was born from a woman and raised outside of a hatchery. The two decide to go on a holiday together to a Savage reservation in New Mexico, where the State sends the outlying members of its castes. Lenina is more socially accepted and respectful of her work. The main plot of the novel revolves around Lenina Crowne, a hatchery worker and Bernard Marx a psychologist working the top level of the factory.īernard is a non-conformist, a man who disagrees with what the factory is doing and, against his better interests is very vocal about his opinions. The castes are each grown in a place called the Hatchery and conditioned with subconscious messages and brainwashing as children.
Each caste is ranked from one to five with a letter from the Greek alphabet, ranging from the highest, Alpha which consists of children who are to become world leaders and great thinkers of the State down to Epsilon who are created to perform menial jobs and hard labor. Through various means of artificial reproduction, the State has controlled the world's population and encouraged all citizens to embrace their station in one of five different castes.
In the book the world as we know it has transformed and become something known as The World State. The World State is a dictatorship, mostly humanitarian and kind, the State worships the historical figure Henry Ford (creator of the Model T car) and is run by ten different World Controllers. The book is the story of a possible future set in London in the year AF 632 (AD 2540 by our standards of time measurement).
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