When you read a book with enthusiasm, you do not care about remembering all the main events and the names of the characters. Therefore, after a couple of years you will remember only something that is vaguely reminiscent of the plot. To call the memory to account, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with a brief retelling of the work. And for a complete understanding of the events described, we advise you to read analysis of the novel from Literaguru.
Chapter first
Thirty-four-story building - “Central London Hatchery and Educational Center”, where a sign hangs, which reads: “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY”. Inside is the fertilization room, where three hundred employees bowed their heads over special microscopes. The director is giving a lecture on the current century: the year 632 of the era of stability - the Ford Era, at the same time showing the process of artificial insemination from test tubes.
Further, students who come to study the process described above are led to the eggs, from which the so-called “races” emerge: alpha, beta, gamma, delta and epsilons. The director explains that for the sake of such "stability" many employees need great care in raising such "children."
For example, alpha represents the highest link - mental workers creating technology; epsilons are the lowest grade, which is created only for hard physical work (they are specially given less oxygen so that their physiological parameters differ from the structure of higher castes). However, the "race" is determined not only by the internal content, but also by the external - the color of the clothes. The detailed birth process that Mr. Ford shows is for the embryos to come out of special bottles - this is called the Cork.
Foster and the Director decide to go to the above department with the students.
Chapter two
The director opened the door to the “MILK RECEIVER. HALLS OF THE NEOPAVLO FORMATION OF REOLEXES. " Mr. Foster stayed on the other floor. The whole room was a large kindergarten, in which the nannies ruled.
The director instructs the nannies to bring the "sliders", the nannies bring large trolleys in which children are dressed in khaki - the color of the delta. Then he gives the command to bring the kids to the stand with books and flowers. The children rushed to the beautiful covers, but they were shocked. The procedure was repeated, the kids no longer crawled to the treasured flowers and books.
The director explains this measure by the need for the deltas to be weaned from childhood to love nature and literature. Their aesthetic and mental development should not be “spent on the Society’s time," because deltas must perform certain functions, and their list does not include intellectual and creative activity. In other words: when love for plants arises, the deltas begin to use transport to go to nature - this entails economic costs that “the previous society suffered”. The Director rejoices at such a smart decision to protect the Company from “unnecessary consumption”.
Further, the hero tells how the worldviews of each caste are formed. The director decides to tell a certain parable about Reuben Rabinowicz, a Polish boy who, due to his parents' oversight, heard the radio turned on at night broadcasting B. Shaw’s broadcast, and in the morning repeated all the words in English - this is how they discovered the principle of remembering information in a dream: hypnopedia. Students were clearly surprised by the story they heard, since the concepts of “mother, father, birth” were considered to be a clear fantasy for them and, moreover, an unpleasant topic.
The director tells the student the intricacies of the open method: they give children information in a dream, which they then assimilate for granted, as an unbreakable truth, so they don’t even think about moving to another caste, because everything is better for them than for others.
Chapter three
Behind the building there was a special park for young children playing a strange game, throwing a ball on a special ring that rotated it and returned it back. A detector with students was seen in the bushes of 7-year-old children playing a sexual game. The director told the "historical tale" that before - before the Ford Era - sexual games for children were forbidden, and until the age of 20 they were not allowed to have sexual intercourse - this statement caused a storm of laughter and a storm of "okhov". The company came up with his fordate Mustafa Mord - a black-haired man of medium height.
It struck 4 hours. Voices began to be heard from the receivers: "The first shift is over." Henry Foster and the Assistant Principal Investigator went to Bernard Marx, a specialist in the psychology department.
Mustafa Mond - Chief Executive Officer of Western Europe, one in ten, began to explain to students the “basics of life”: “history is nonsense”, “living in a family and having a home” is terrible.
At the same time, the Laminayne Crowne betaminusovka climbed up to the 17th floor and ended up in the “Women’s dressing room” with vibro-massage massage products. She greeted Fanny Crown, who worked in the Capping Hall; their surnames coincided, since there were 10,000 names and surnames per billion inhabitants.
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Lina and Fani talked about the fact that Fani prescribed pseudo-pregnancy, and since she is a brunette with a wide basin, she needed to do this 2 years earlier, and not at her 19 years old. Fanny found out that Linayne was still with Henry Foster. 4 months is a long time, according to Fani, “it’s indecent”. Linah said that the Director today patted her buttocks, Fani was pleasantly surprised by such a strict decency.
At the same time, Mond explained to students that their lord Freud had revealed the dangers of family life: she only bears suffering. Monogamy and one love - isolation and narrow channel, which is why everything is allowed in the Ford Era! Stability is the key to success, because only stability drives the Society.
The conversation between Fani and Linayn went about Bernard, it turned out that he was an alpha plus player - the highest caste. Fani did not understand Linayne’s affection for Bernard, since by general standards he was considered strange because of private “loneliness”. There were rumors that he had been mistakenly spoiled by genetics in vitro, and therefore inferior. In the meantime, Bernard, having heard the instructions about Lynine from Foster, got angry at the order of his attitude to the person, as to the “patty” that they betray to everyone.
Chapter Four
Having met in the elevator with Bernard, Linina invited him to go together to New Mexico, but he was embarrassed and embarrassed. Epsilon-minus entered the elevator, constantly repeating the word “roof”, from the speaker he was ordered to go down - it caused laughter.
Henry Ford was waiting for Line in his office. They got into a car and took off over London. We landed in Stoke Podges and went to play golf.
Bernard opened the doors of his hangar compartment and asked the Delta Minusoviks to roll out his helicopter. It was always difficult for him to speak with lower castes, since he himself was similar to them - in terms of external characteristics. He was 8 centimeters lower than alpha, and therefore gentler.
Landing on the roof of the Institute for Sense Technology, where the Hourly Radio News newspapers were published for the higher castes, Gamma Gazeta and Delta Mirror, Bernard went to Helmholtz Watson, a handsome alpha-plus player, lecturer and teacher. They talked about their unhappy life, and, as you know, it was impossible to talk about it, because everything was perfect according to generally accepted standards.
Chapter five
While Lynaina and Henry flew back, they discussed the happiness of being a certain caste. For example, if there were no epsilons, there would be no physical labor, which means that there would be no technical side of service, and this is an important part of standardization. Moreover, epsilon cannot know what it means to be a non-epsilon; certain ideals are embedded in the psyche of each race. This is the highest manifestation of justice.
They landed on the roof of the forty-story building where Henry lived, dined and went to the renewed abbey, where music was playing. Dancing lasted all night, 3 doses of soma (a drug that immersed a person in happiness) were taken.
Every Thursday, Bernard needed to attend a gathering of unity: they listened to the Song of Unity, danced in a round dance, drank soma.
Chapter six
The first day of Linyna and Bernard was very strange: Bernard did not want to fly to Luxembourg because of the crowd, did not want to accept the soma that Lynaina had offered him - “Somu am! “And there is no dram.” This hypnopedic wisdom was not to the hero's liking; he was tired of the template fellow citizens.
While they were flying over the English Channel, a conversation started between them. What if Bernard had not been psychologically programmed? What could he do? Lynna replied that she was truly happy, but the terrible things Bernard said scared her.
After landing in London, the next day, Bernard went into the Director’s office for a signature, but looking carefully at the usual sheet that was brought to him for a signature, the Director saw the words “New Mexico”. He was extremely surprised about this reservation, but thought about Bernard's age - he was 20 years old. Then, he began to talk about the fact that he also wanted to look at the savages, and his desire came true, but during this trip his girlfriend disappeared, which they could not find. Bernard expressed his regret and in vain - this circumstance angered the Director.
He began to tell Bernard that he was "not pleased with information about his extra-judicial behavior." The director monitored the reputation of the center's employees, and therefore - Bernard was warned. As soon as he left, the Director began to write something.
Bernard told Helmholtz about this story, but he did not praise Bernard and did not even say anything, because, based on the words of a friend, he emerged victorious - and this is boasting.
On the "Blue Pacific Rocket" Linaina and Bernard set off on their journey. For the pass, a special visa was needed from the Reservation Keeper, but he talked endlessly about the savages, who are still giving birth to children and preserving the "primitive" religion. Bernard and Linayna were “freed” from the Guardian, and then a message came that they were looking for a new psychologist in Bernard’s place, and he was sent to Iceland (there was a district where all the dissatisfied exiles lived). He took 4 tablets of catfish and got acquainted with the tour.
After flying around the island, they landed in the village of Malpasaraiso.
Chapter seven
After a long and tiring journey with the Indian, from whom “smelled”, according to Lina, Bernard and his companion saw a bright young man, unlike savages playing drums, which, by the way, Linaine really liked. Bernard decided to get to know him better.
It turned out that this blond youth was born and raised in the village, and he knows the old English that he speaks from the book of Shakespeare, which he found on his reservation. The young man who invited them to the "hut" called a certain Linda. The spectacle of Bernard and Linayn appeared a thick blonde Indian woman who had no front teeth. She was immensely happy to see "civilized people."
Linda - that was the name of the stranger - explained to the named guests that once, once upon a time, she and her companion were lost in the jungle, only he left, and she did not. She ended up in an Indian village, where there was “complete unsanitary conditions” and where everyone belonged to only one person, so she, with her “quirks” that the Society had laid for her, did not immediately like the village. However, she found a man, became pregnant and gave birth to a child, which, of course, was considered a shame in civilization. She got used to this idea and became addicted to Native American vodka, which brightened her loneliness.
Chapter eight
Bernard, strolling with John - that is the name of the young man - decides to ask about his memories. John tells Bernard about life with Linda and how unhappy she was. Once a tall man came to their house, who pulled Linda out of the house, while John was left completely alone. Pope came to their house many times: to change the water, then to help Linda, but after such visits she was beaten with sticks by a woman, and the poor lady did not understand what she had done wrong.
The boys teased John and Linda, sang songs and composed tales. At 13, he saw a book on the floor that, according to Linda, Pope brought. John said that he wanted to kill Pope after he saw him on the bed with Linda, but despite 3 stabs in the Pope, he could not complete what he had begun.
After being beaten with stones at the age of 16, on a steep rock, “Time, Death, God revealed” to him. Bernard realized that John was as lonely as he was, and then he wanted to take them with Linda with him, to which the young man exclaimed: “O brave new world where such people live!”
Chapter nine
While Linda took a dose of catfish, Bernard managed to fly to the Guardian and call Mustafa to settle some issues. Mr. Mond was extremely interested in the scientific study of the “two individuals” that Bernard was going to bring to the Society. The keeper gave consent and permission for this "operation".
While Bernard was at the Guardian, John was disappointed in the upcoming trip, because he did not find Bernard in his former place, so he began to look for Linayne. He saw her half naked on the bed and fell in love. Bernard flew in by car to pick up the whole company. John nevertheless decided to go.
Chapter ten
In the fertilization room, where the company was invited, Mr. Ford and the Director discussed an unprecedented violation of generally accepted standards by Bernard. As soon as the hero of the occasion appeared, the Director, with the whole hall full, announced his decision to dismiss Bernard from his post, to which he expressed his indignation. He now had a trump card in the face of the "savages", because it was he who found them. The hall gasped.
Linda immediately recognized her Tomasik, who turned out to be the Director, who left her in the “terrible world”. The young man recognized his father in him, but his "Father!" made the whole room laugh, while the Director was completely embarrassed and ran away.
Chapter eleven
After the scandal, everyone wanted to see John, but not Linda, who caused rejection by her appearance, unusual for civilization,. Linda dreamed of being near the TV, catfish and other inaccessible to her away from the house of miracles and, at the insistence of Dr. Shaw, she lay in her room for a long time.
Bernard was blinded by success and ran to tell Helmholtz about his 6 girls, who were delighted with him. A friend did not share his happiness, he only said that he was sad about it. Bernard, on the other hand, enjoyed the glory, while in his hands was a trump card - John. He was ordered to show Savage the entire civilized Society, but John was not going to take soma, watch films that forced him to watch Line, and laugh with students about religion.
After John's next refusal from a night with Lina, she took a large dose of soma.
Chapter twelve
The morning began with a knock on John's door. Bernard persistently asked him to go out to the guests, and especially to the archbishop of Canterbury, with whom he dreamed of having dinner and, thereby, consolidating his status. However, the Savage refused to meet people whom he does not want to see.
Linea was absolutely depressed by the fact that "John does not like it." Arkhipesnoslov refused to Bernard, inviting with him Line. Bernard wept bitterly and then took 4 tablets of soma.
Bernard woke up from the visit of John, who told him that now "he looks like the former Bernard." He decided to restore friendly relations with Hemgoltz, who received him especially cordially, which injured Bernard.It turned out that Hemgoltz was also in conflict with the Authority because of his poem about "night solitude."
Hemgoltz meets the Savage, and together they talk about Shakespeare retold by John.
Chapter thirteen
Lina, having met with Henry at work, behaved strangely, abandoning the night with Henry. He advised her to go to the doctor, to which Linina angrily pushed the hero away from her because of his instructions about taking soma.
John in his room was waiting for Helmholtz to declare his love for Lynaine, but she was not standing on the threshold. The savage confessed to the girl his feelings and in every possible way hinted at the marriage that was accepted from them on the reservation. The heroine, having kissed him, took off her clothes - this caused an unprecedented fit of anger on the part of her lover. He clasped her hands, shouting that she was a “harlot." Lina ran to the bathroom.
The phone rang, the heroine heard John fear that someone was seriously ill and was dying. He ran out of the room. A frightened girl walked to the elevator.
Chapter fourteen
Linda was in a special room, where different aromas were fragrant. The sister was surprised by the visit of the Savage, who sought to see the patient. However, when he said that Linda was his mother, she began to noticeably be embarrassed.
John went to the woman’s bed, she recognized his face and smiled noticeably when he began to sing songs, which he fell asleep in his childhood. But then an endless stream of twins staring at Linda entered the room. They called her “fat,” and John dared to push one too annoying child. Sister strictly forbidden to do this, since children are now going through the stage of death education.
Linda stopped recognizing her son, she kept repeating Pope, which made Savage shake her violently in the hope that she would understand that Pope was not next to her. The heroine died, horror remained in her eyes, and John began to weep bitterly. At this moment, the sister asked: “To whom to give a chocolate bar, children? ".
Chapter fifteen
Going out into the street, Savage saw a crowd of people who stood in line for a catfish. It was then that he realized that "Linda lived and died as a slave, the rest must be free, the world must be made beautiful." He began to assure everyone that the catfish is poison, then the distributor began to look for someone's number in the phone book.
Panic begins after the words of the Savage that their whole life is an illusion. The people barely managed to reassure, then those who came running to the voices of Bernard and Helmholtz, along with John, were sent to Mustafa Mond. They were detained by the police.
Chapter sixteen
In his office, Mustafa Mond asks Savage why he does not like their civilized society, to which John replies with Shakespeare's poems. It turned out that Mond also knows Shakespeare, the young man does not understand where and why. Mustafa Mond explains that he creates the rules and violates them himself. In his opinion, the famous author is the past, the old, and society needs stability and novelty. The hero says that for the sake of universal happiness they sacrificed art, and now people have everything that they dreamed about: there is no fear of death, there is no old age, but there is plenty of entertainment available.
Mond explains that if there weren’t alpha, gamma and epsilon in the world, instability would have arisen, and that is what they can’t allow. And if any problems arise, they are given soma. Mustafa Mond also said that in his youth he was given a choice: to go to the island of dissidents and surrender to science or become the chief manager, and he chose the latter. Thus, the hero also sacrificed a lot for the sake of order and stability.
After a lengthy conversation, Mustafa sent Helmholtz into exile, and John was banned from leaving so that the "experiment would continue." Bernard begged not to touch him, to leave everything as it is, because he was very afraid of exile. In order to achieve the goal, he even announced that his comrades were to blame for everything, and not he. The whole conversation he shook with fear for his fate. In the end, Mond gave the order to calm him in pairs of catfish, so that he overslept and accepted his lot. Helmholtz retired after him.
Chapter seventeen
After the "friends" of John left, he and Mustafa were left alone. Mustafa Mond explained to John that the Society also sacrificed religion, and that God exists, but he will not talk about it to people, because this God is old, and a new one is not yet accessible, since it is not God who is changing, but people. For in the past he showed himself as described in the Bible, and now - by his absence.
John did not agree with this, since it is human nature to believe in God because of loneliness, to which Mustafa replied that in their civilized society there is no loneliness as well as heroism and nobility. Since a certain program of behavior has already been laid in them from birth, this allows them to be happy.
The savage declares that he has the right to a full life. Mustafa does not interfere with him.
Chapter eighteen
John came to Helmholtz and Bernard and said that he “was poisoned by civilization” and he urgently needed to get away from it. Friends gather on the road to the island, now Bernard accepted his fate with dignity and even apologized for his cowardice in Mond’s office. The savage forgave him. He again requested the island, but he was not allowed. Then he decided to find a place in London where he could retire. They said goodbye.
John begins to live in an abandoned lighthouse with his last money, which allows him to buy everything necessary for life. The savage engaged in agriculture, believed in the power of self-torture, and began to beat himself with a scourge to expel filth from himself.
But once he, half-naked, is seen by people passing by, and everything starts all over again: the crowd, screams. He becomes the hero of television news, cameras and reporters are hunting for them. Peace comes to an end. He again became a game monkey.
One day a crowd of onlookers came to him who wanted to see what the scourging looked like. John, seeing Lina in the crowd, really becomes like a real Savage who rushes at her with a scourge in his hand. He beats the girl, but soon realizes how he morally lowered.
A day later, the Londoners again want to see the Savage, but see only the hanged body of John. He committed suicide.
