sparknotes brave new world video summary

His quotation of Miranda's line from The Tempest - 'O brave new world / That has such people in it' - at first expresses his awe of the 'Other Place' his mother told him of as a child. Reared on the traditional ways of the Reservation and an old volume of the poetry of Shakespeare, John finds London strange, confusing, and finally repellent. Once a social outcast, Bernard now enjoys great success, because of his association with the new celebrity - John, called 'the Savage.' Shocked and humiliated by the proof of his horrifying connection with natural birth, the D.H.C. the father of the child - Bernard brings Linda and John back to London and presents them publicly to the D.H.C., who is about to banish Bernard. Seeing his opportunity to gain power over the D.H.C. In the Savage Reservation with Lenina, Bernard meets a woman from London who gave birth to a son about 20 years before. turns on Bernard, threatening him with banishment for his own social sins - not engaging enthusiastically enough in sex and soma. Embarrassed by the disclosure of his socially unacceptable emotion, the D.H.C. Scorned by women, Bernard nevertheless manages to engage the attention of Lenina Crowne, a 'pneumatic' beauty who agrees to spend a vacation week with him at the remote Savage Reservation in New Mexico, a place far from the controlled, technological world of London.īefore Bernard leaves, his superior, the D.H.C., spontaneously reveals that long ago he, too, visited the Savage Reservation, and he confesses in sorrow that he lost the woman who accompanied him there.

The natural processes of birth, aging, and death represent horrors in this world.īernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus (or high-caste) psychologist, emerges as the single discontented person in a world where material comfort and physical pleasure - provided by the drug soma and recreational sex - are the only concerns.

The first scene, offering a tour of a lab where human beings are created and conditioned according to the society's strict caste system, establishes the antiseptic tone and the theme of dehumanized life. Human life has been almost entirely industrialized - controlled by a few people at the top of a World State. Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future ('After Ford').

Sparknotes brave new world video summary