![]() He falls passionately in love with Lenina, but has convinced himself that any sexual contact between them would be a grievous sin-a stance that completely baffles Lenina who has been conditioned to enjoy promiscuous sex without any emotional commitment. Eventually the Savage becomes increasingly horrified by the "brave new world" and retreats into reading Shakespeare's plays. There they come upon a fair-skinned young man named John, who turns out to be the son of a Londoner, and Bernard brings John back to "civilized" London.įor a while, the "Savage" creates a sensation. Disaffected with the regimentation of society, Bernard and his girlfriend, Lenina, visit the American Southwest where Native Americans are permitted to live in an "uncivilized" state. The story, set in a futuristic London, focuses on the misadventures of Bernard Marx. ![]() In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley conjures up a horrifying, but often comic, vision of a future Utopia in which humans are processed, conditioned, regimented, and drugged into total social conformity. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New World Note to Teachers Themes: totalitarianism, individualism, technology, value systems ![]()
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