He represents the beginning and end of John's involvement in the traditional life of Malpais. Mitsima An old Indian man in Malpais who begins to teach John to mold clay and presides in the marriage ceremony John witnesses. Popé's involvement with Linda inspires John's deep revulsion for sex. She encourages Lenina to pursue John sexually if he will not take the lead. Fanny represents the conventional views of the brave new world. He is a typically conventional Londoner.įanny Crowne Lenina's friend. Henry Foster An Alpha who is seeing Lenina Crowne. His relationships with the inhabitants provide a provocative and pertinent questioning of modern. He occupies an important position in the brave new world but loses it when Linda announces that he is the father of their son, John. Into this society comes John, a sensitive, human throwback. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, called "Tomakin" by Linda.
He represents a more courageous and intellectual character than Bernard. An Emotional Engineer, he longs to become a poet. Helmholtz Watson Bernard's friend, later a friend of John. Mond sentences Bernard and Helmholtz to be banished to the Falkland Islands and determines that John must stay in London. He offers a historical view of the brave new world at the beginning of the novel and later debates John and Helmholtz on society's values. Mustapha Mond The World Controller, intellectually and politically powerful. She is deeply ashamed and longs for escape, finding it in peyote, mescal, sex, and soma. An upper-caste Londoner, she commits the ultimate social sin by bearing a child. A conventional young woman who is drawn unconsciously toward danger, she represents ideal beauty for John. Lenina Crowne A technician, attracted by Bernard, in love with John. He is the character closest to being the hero of the novel. John the Savage The son born of parents from the brave new world but raised in the Savage Reservation, John represents a challenge to the dystopia. He brings John the Savage and Linda back from the Savage Reservation and so makes possible the conflict that informs the last third of the novel.
Identifying himself as a true individual, Bernard bristles at the social pressures for conformity and longs for the intense, heroic feelings but lacks the ability to be a rebel. Bernard Marx An Alpha-Plus psychologist, rumored to have received alcohol in his blood surrogate, a circumstance that would explain his shortness.
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