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Chapters 7-10Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 7 Summary
In the beginning pages of Chapter 7, Lenina is exposed for the first time to the ways of life on the Reservation Malpais. She sees old age for the first time, as opposed to life in the World State, in which, as Marx says, “Youth persists almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end” (111). She sees infirmity and a dead dog, finding the sights “terrible” (111), and asks several times to go. She also realizes she has forgotten her soma and cannot escape the horrible things she is witnessing. This comes to a head when their guide takes them to view a violent ritual, set to drum music, involving masked men with whips, snakes, and images of an Eagle and the Christian depiction of Jesus on the cross. The ritual climaxes with the whipping (either to death or very near it) of a young boy, until he lies still and prone in the square, at which point an elder dips an eagle feather in the blood from his back and the ritual ends. Lenina exclaims that the ritual is “too awful.”
In the aftermath of the ceremony, Lenina and Bernard are approached by a white man dressed in Indian garb who speaks “faultless but p
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Hatchery and Conditioning Centre
Chapter 2: Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning and Hypnopaedia
Chapter 3: The World State and the Banishment of Family
Chapter 4: Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne's Trip; Helmholtz Watson's Friendship
Chapter 5: Lenina's Doubts; Bernard at the Solidarity Service
Chapter 6: The Savage Reservation
Chapter 7: The Pueblo of Malpais; Meeting John the Savage and Linda
Chapter 8: John's Past and Childhood on the Reservation
Chapter 9: John's Feelings for Lenina; Bernard's Request to Mond
Chapter 10: Bernard's Banishment; Revelation of John and Linda's Relationship to the Director
Objectives and Key Themes
The text aims to explore the societal implications of advanced technological advancements and the potential dangers of sacrificing individuality for stability and happiness. It achieves this through a narrative that juxtaposes a seemingly utopian world with the complexities and contradictions inherent in its design.
Technological Control and its Impact on Society
Individuality vs. Conformity
The Nature of Happiness and its Artificial Creation
The Role of Family and Tra
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Back in London, the lively sound (BUZZ!) of the busy worker bees (metaphor) fills the hive (more metaphor) of the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.
We also feel obligated to bring you the following detail: children are busy at their erotic play, such as "hunt the zipper."
The Director, looking quite grumpy, meets with Henry Foster. They are discussing Bernard Marx.
Foster ventures that Bernard does his job well, but the Director says that, because of his intelligence, Bernard has a greater social responsibility. It is better for one individual—in this case, Bernard—to suffer than for many men to be corrupted by his ideas. All in the name of Society.
Speak of the devil; here comes Bernard.
The Director stops everyone within shouting distance from their work. They all listen to a public announcement proclaiming, essentially, that Bernard is a jerk. He has betrayed his social responsibilities. He concludes by asking Bernard if there's any good reason that he
not
be banished to Iceland, ASAP.
Bernard says, "Actually, yes," and he brings Linda in from the hallway. Of course, she's old and overweight, so ever
Brave New World Chapter 10 Summary
After Bernard, Lenina, John, and Linda return to London, the Director calls Bernard into the Fertilizing Room. The Director has Henry Foster with him. He wants to use Bernard as an example to the others. The Director explains to Henry that even though Bernard is excellent at his job, Bernard's inability to fit into Society poses a threat to their very way of life. The Director says due to Bernard's station in society, because he is an Alpha-Plus, this means he has an enhanced ability to influence others to behave as he does. Therefore he means to take the appropriate action to stop Bernard.
Bernard enters the Fertilizing Room with a bit of confidence knowing that he has Linda and John to use against the Director. He is still uneasy being called to a meeting with the Director, especially one held in such an unusual place. After establishing that Bernard had just returned from his vacation, the Director calls for everyone who is in the room attention. The Director tells those present that Bernard, who is an Alpha-Plus, has unorthodox views on recreational activity, soma, that his sex life is not normal, he refuses to obey the teachings of O