BRAVE NEW WORLD PLOT GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
NAME:______________________________________________________________________ PERIOD:_______
CH. 1: Summary: The D.H.C. –tour of
CH. 4: Summary: Lenina agrees to go to
CH. 7: Summary: Lenina and Bernard
Central London Hatchery and Conditioning
Centre; embryos mass produced in 5
castes; run into Henry Foster and Lenina
Crowne—D.H.C. finds Henry telling her to
meet him after work “charming”
reservation with Bernard; goes on date
with Henry; Bernard visits Helmholtz and
discuss problems with World State;
Helmholtz wants to write something with
power (not propaganda)
Significance: Lenina shows desire to spend
time with Bernard; Bernard and Helmholtz
are both individuals in a society that
devalues individualism
Quote: “Contact with members of the
lowers castes always reminded him
painfully of this physical inadequacy” (64).
“What the two men shared was the
knowledge that they were individuals”
(67).
enter the Reservation; Lenina is appalled
by poverty, filth, old people; They meet
John, who is entranced by Lenina; Bernard
talks with John and realizes he is the
Director’s son
Significance: Understand “eugenics” of
society with caste system and artificial
reproduction; begin to see relationships
Quote: “Community, Identity, Stability”(3).
“All conditioning aims at that: making
people like their inescapable social
destiny” (16).
CH. 2: Summary: D.H.C. explains
CH. 5: Summary: Lenina and Henry enjoy
history/purpose of hypnopaedia, and
shows how infants are conditioned to love
station in life—babies shocked/scared to
not like flowers/books
date; Bernard goes to Solidarity Service—
he feels left out and self-conscious both
during and after the meeting
Significance: Classical conditioning “forces”
people to think/behave in ways that are
deemed “appropriate” for their caste—
governmental control
Quote: “Till at last the child’s mind is these
suggestions, and the sum of the
suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the
child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too—all
his life long”
“A love of nature keeps no factories busy”
(23).
CH. 3: Summary: Tour sees young girls
and boys playing sexual games; Mustapha
Mond explains that W.S. eliminates strong
emotions by eliminating families and
promoting promiscuity/soma; Fanny
chastises Lenina for dating Henry only;
Lenina accepts Bernard’s invite to vacation
Significance: Learn how sexuality is used
by the government for control of the
people—observe the connection between
family and emotion
Quote: “Ending is better than mending”
(49).
“The more stitches, the less riches” (51).
Significance: Bernard is becoming
increasingly dissatisfied with
himself/society; Solidarity Service seems
religious in nature, showing the
replacement of God with “self-pleasing”
activities instituted by government
Significance: Notice the differences
between the World State and the
Reservation; all people are somewhat
shocked by culture of the other society;
Bernard realizes the significance of John’s
existence as Director’s son—he is an
outsider to Malpais
Quote: “‘…civilization is sterilization’” (110)
“They disliked me for my complexion. It’s
always been like that. Always” (117).
CH. 8: Summary: John tells Bernard life
story (alone); Bernard promises to take
him and Linda back to World State; John
asks if B and L are married; B laughs; John
notices differences between cultures—
seems to like World State
Significance: John and Bernard are both
outsiders; John is beginning to see the
differences between Malpais and World
State; Bernard still limited by conditioning
Quote: “Ford, we are twelve; oh make us
one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh,
make us now together run as swiftly as
they shining Flivver…We long to die, for
when we end, Our larger life has but
begun” (81).
Quote: “‘O brave new world,’ he repeated.
‘O brave new world that has such people in
it. Let’s start at once’” (139).
“It was the same with everything else he
asked about. Linda never seemed to know.
The old men of the pueblo had much more
definite answers” (130).
CH. 6: Summary: Lenina and Bernard go on
CH. 9: Summary: Bernard gets permission
date; Lenina thinks he acts oddly—refusing to
take soma, regretting intimate relations,
wishing he had not been conditioned;
Director tells Bernard about being separated
from companion at Reservation; threatens to
send Bernard to Iceland to keep him quiet/
get rid of the problem
from Mustapha to bring John “the Savage”
to London; John sees Lenina sleeping and is
in love; he quotes Romeo and Juliet and is
too afraid to touch her
Significance: Lenina is beginning to
experience Bernard’s “oddness”
firsthand—she serves as a foil of sorts to
Bernard’s resistance to conditioning since
she is the model citizen in many ways
Quote: “A gramme is time saves nine” (89).
“‘…what would it be like if I could, if I were
free—not enslaved by my conditioning’”
(91).
Significance: John has a greater sense of
modesty/purity than those of the World
State, having learned from Shakespeare—
he is far more emotional than conditioned
citizens of the World State (even Bernard).
Quote: “Lenina felt herself entitled, after
this day of queerness and horror, to a
complete and absolute holiday” (140).
“Detestable thought! He was ashamed of
himself. Pure and vestal modesty…” (145).
CH. 10: Summary: DHC plans to humiliate
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B in front of A workers (Iceland); B brings
in Linda (lover) & John (falls on knees)—To
Linda, shocked (she’s mother, old, fat,
saggy) To John, laugh (he calls “Father”);
DHC runs out of the room
Significance: Bernard gains sense of power
over DHC—emphasizes lack of
family/morals/emotions
Quote: “‘My father!’” (150); “‘Did you
think I didn’t recognize him?’”(150);
“bewildered humiliation” (152)
CH. 11: Summary: Linda retreats to soma
holiday; Bernard boasts about sex life to
Helmholtz (he has gained power/popularity);
John doesn’t like factory/uniformitymove
from excitement to horror; J visits Linda; B
writes letter to Mustapha; Society goes to
feelies (4D)instead of reading; J refuses soma/
leaves Lenina at end of date
Significance: J worried about mother (has
emotions/morals); outsider perspective shows
crazy society (irony in “savage” label);
relationship working with J and L—he freaks
out; she’s confused
Quote: “‘I had six girls last week’” (156); “ ‘The
Savage…refuses to take soma…much distressed
because the woman Linda, his m------ ”(160); “
‘O brave new world…’ By some malice of his
memory” (160)