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Course Hero. "Brave New World Study Guide." Course Hero. 27 Oct. 2016. Web. 5 June 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Brave-New-World/>.
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Students learn about genetic design and conditioning while touring the Hatchery with the Director.
Chapter 1Mustapha Mond explains the reasoning behind the motto Community, Identity, Stability.
Chapter 3Lenina, Henry, Bernard, and Helmholtz participate in after-work activities.
Chapter 4, Part 1Lenina and Bernard watch a ceremony; meet John and his mother, Linda; and hear John's story.
Chapter 7Bernard takes John and Linda to London so he can ruin the Director for exiling him to Iceland.
Chapter 9John is popular, he and Helmholtz are friends, John spurns Lenina sexually, and Bernard is unhappy.
Chapter 11John's grief at Linda's death shocks hospital staff and visitors; he starts a riot after Linda dies.
Chapter 13John and Mustapha discuss history, books, happiness, and religion. Bernard and Helmholtz are exiled.
Chapter 16John chooses solitude to purify himself. People and the media intrude; he hangs himself for sinning.
Chapter 18Chapter | Summary |
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Chapter 1 | Brave New World opens in the year A.F. 632 with the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre lead... Read More |
Chapter 2 | In Chapter 2 the Director addresses various conditioning techniques. Babies are brought into one of the Neo-Pavlovian Co... Read More |
Chapter 3 | The students' tour of the Hatchery continues as the Director guides the Alpha males through the grounds. They watch chil... Read More |
Chapter 4, Part 1 | On the elevator ride to the roof after work, Lenina approaches Bernard Marx and tells him she accepts his offer to go on... Read More |
Chapter 4, Part 2 | Bernard Marx is unhappy with Benito Hoover, Lenina, and his life in general. Lenina angers him with her friendly public ... Read More |
Chapter 5, Part 1 | The chapter opens with Henry and Lenina leaving the Stoke Poges Club House after their game of Obstacle Golf. On their w... Read More |
Chapter 5, Part 2 | Part 2 reveals the flip side to the World State's "Everybody's happy now" philosophy. Bernard Marx spends his evening at... Read More |
Chapter 6, Part 1 | As the chapter begins, Lenina is questioning traveling to New Mexico with Bernard because of his strangeness. He doesn't... Read More |
Chapter 6, Part 2 | Bernard stops by the Director's office to get the administrator's signature on his New Mexico Reservation permit. The Ha... Read More |
Chapter 6, Part 3 | Bernard and Lenina take the Blue Pacific Rocket to New Mexico and spend the night in a full-service luxury hotel in Sant... Read More |
Chapter 7 | Lenina hates the pueblo village. The dust and the fetid odors of rotting garbage, filthy animals and people, and unwashe... Read More |
Chapter 8 | In Chapter 8 John the Savage tells Bernard his story. His earliest memory is of lying in bed with Linda as she sings to ... Read More |
Chapter 9 | Bernard spends the morning setting the groundwork for his plan to save his job. He explains the scientific aspects of ta... Read More |
Chapter 10 | The Director chooses one of the busiest times of day in the Hatchery to announce Bernard's banishment to Iceland. At 2:3... Read More |
Chapter 11 | The fame spotlight shines on John the Savage in Chapter 11. An oddity to the test-tube population, he is invited to tour... Read More |
Chapter 12 | Bernard's popularity evaporates when John the Savage refuses to leave his room and join another social event. Although B... Read More |
Chapter 13 | Lenina's confusion over her feelings for John the Savage obsesses her. At work she is annoyed with Henry for badgering h... Read More |
Chapter 14 | John the Savage arrives at the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying to be with his mother before she passes away. Rushing to... Read More |
Chapter 15 | When John the Savage leaves the ward after his mother's death, he finds himself in the middle of a group of identical gi... Read More |
Chapter 16 | John the Savage, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson congregate in the Controller's office, waiting for a meeting with Mu... Read More |
Chapter 17 | John the Savage and Mustapha Mond continue their conversation in private now that Bernard and Helmholtz have left. Their... Read More |
Chapter 18 | Back at Bernard's apartment, Bernard and Helmholtz find a pale and sickly John the Savage leaving the bathroom. He has b... Read More |