CHARACTERS

Bernard Marx:

An Alpha plus member of the Central London Hatchery. He’s very intelligent, specialist in sleep-teaching. He’s shorter than normal Alpha people, he doesn’t like sport and he’s not very attractive (he looks like a gamma person). Bernard is isolated, because of his small body and he likes to be alone ?Outsider. He hasn’t got so many girls as other men. The other people say, they accidentally put some alcohol in his blood, when he was still in the bottle, because they confounded him. Bernard hates Ford and because of that, he’s an enemy of Society. He is sent to Iceland.

John the Savage:

He born in New Mexico in a Savage Reservation. He’s the son of two members of Utopia: Linda and Thomas (the director). He’s brought into the civilization by Bernard. He grew up with 3 cultures: 1. Utopian culture, told by his mother. 2. Indian culture he lived in it, but he was an outsider. 3. culture of Shakespeare, he had a book by him. He expects the new world to be wonderful. He believes in religion, family and other human things, but people in Utopia don’t do that. Because of that, he doesn’t feel happy in the new world. ?suicide

Lenina Crowne:

A typical Betha girl (young and pretty), she’s a nurse, who’s injecting the embryos immunizations against diseases. She’s not normal, because she wants to go out more than once with Henry Foster (alpha plus worker). She had him for 4 months without having another man! She believes in having sex whenever she wants it; so she can’t understand that John avoids sex with her. She falls in love with John, but they can’t be together because of their difference.

Henry Foster:

Alpha plus man, who works in the London Hatchery. He’ an Ex- Boyfriend of Lenina, they were 4 months together. That’s not normal in the Brave New World!

Thomas (D.H.C.):

The director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre (Brut- und Normcenter). He was in New Mexico more than 20 years ago and there he lost his girlfriend Linda. He’s Bernard’s boss and the one, who wants to send him to Iceland. When he learns, that John is his son, he gives up his job and goes away.

Linda:

She was a Betha minus in the civilized world, who slept with the director. They were together in the Savage Reservation, where she was left. She was pregnant and gave birth to John in the Savage Reservation. She came back with John and Bernard, but between these 20 years she got fat and old. The people don’t like her and because of that, she takes a lot of soma (drug with no side-effects). At the end, she dies of soma....

Mustapha Mond:

He’s one of the ten World State Controllers (Alpha plus plus). He’s extremely intelligent, because he reads a lot of forbidden books as the bible and books by Shakespeare. He knows history and philosophy very well. At last he sends Bernard to Iceland and Helmholtz Watson to the Falkland Islands.

Helmholtz Watson:

He’s an alpha plus like his friend Bernard. He’s too intelligent, because of that he’s an outsider too. He was professor of emotional engineering (feelies = Fühlkino). He is sent to the Falkland Islands.

Short Interpretation

Brave New World is a warning for the whole world of uncontrolled scientific advance where people can be produced. It’s not good, when people can demand what their babies should look like.