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Bernard Marx

Bernard Marx. A sleep-learning specialist at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. A misfit. Often angry, resentful and jealous. His conditioning is clearly incomplete. Is in love with the highly beddable Lenina. Success goes to his head. Ultimately banished. Lenina Crowne.

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Bernard Marx

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  1. Bernard Marx • A sleep-learning specialist at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. • A misfit. • Often angry, resentful and jealous. • His conditioning is clearly incomplete. • Is in love with the highly beddable Lenina. • Success goes to his head. • Ultimately banished

  2. Lenina Crowne • Young, beautiful and sexually liberated Beta. • Popular and promiscuous vaccination-worker at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. • Somewhat quirky - she normally dates only one person at a time - Lenina is basically happy and well-conditioned. • The Savage loves and desires Lenina; but owing to his idealistic nature, he is repelled by her forwardness and the prospect of pre-marital sex.

  3. Tomakin • 'THE DIRECTOR‘ • Administrator in the year 632AF of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. • Runs a futuristic baby-factory where the assembly-line production of genetic castes is streamlined and controlled, and maturing youngsters are brainwashed via neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnop’dia ["sleep-learning"] into being happy with their state-allotted roles in life.

  4. Linda • Ageing mother of John the Savage. • Left behind for dead after a storm on the Reservation while she was pregnant. • Ends up in Park Lane Hospital for the Dying after overdoing her permanent "soma-holiday".

  5. Helmholtz Watson • Handsome and successful • Lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. • Feels unfulfilled writing endless propaganda doggerel. • Helmholtz is ultimately exiled.

  6. Henry Foster • Young, cheerful, and conventional • Scientist, statistician, and assistant to the Director • One of Lenina’s ex-lovers

  7. Pope • Linda’s alcoholic lover • John tries to kill him after he discovers Pope sleeping with his mother

  8. Terminology

  9. Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons: the caste hierarchy in Utopia. • Anthrax Bomb: a Pre-Ford weapon used in germ warfare. • Bokanovsky Process: a process by which a human egg has its normal development arrested. It starts to bud and produces many identical eggs. • Bottling: the stage where artificially created embryos are put into sow peritoneum-lined bottles for maturation.

  10. Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy: an intricate ball game played with complicated equipment. • Electromagnetic Golf: Intricate golf game • Escalator Squash: intricate squash game (high speed racquet sport) • Obstacle Golf: Electromagnetic technologies force the golf ball into the hole automatically.

  11. Community Sing: a pseudo-religious meeting for the lower castes, promoting fraternity. • Decanting: the process by which Utopian embryos are removed from the bottles after maturation. • Emotional Engineering: the profession responsible for preparing propagandistic diversions for the people.

  12. Feelies: Movies that feature not only sight and sound, but also the sensation of touch • Ford: the Utopian idol, the nearest equivalent to God. • Freemartin: a sterilized Utopian woman. • Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning (or simply conditioning): This process is used on all babies to condition them to like or dislike certain objects. It is one of the main conditioning techniques which helps ensure social stability. • Orgy-Porgy: a ritual where indiscriminate, en masse sexual relations ensure solidarity in the participants.

  13. Pneumatic: Containing air; Huxley uses the term to mean buxom • Savage Reservation: One of the only places left on earth where people remain in a state of nature. The Savages were not considered worth civilizing—fenced off on the worst land. • Social Predestination: a process by which a card file of data on every Utopian is preserved to establish a quota system for those types of persons the state intends to create. • Solidarity Service: a pseudo-religious gathering to promote fraternity among the upper castes.

  14. Soma: a drug that dulls the passions and understandings of the people and creates a false sense of happiness. It is frequently consumed to escape reality, mainly in the form of tablets. For the state, it serves as a tool of preserving social stability. • Hypnop'dia: sleep-teaching to inculcate prejudices into the subconscious of the sleeper. • Ectogenesis: birth outside the human body.

  15. Internal and External Secretion Trust: this utopian organization is in charge of hormones and extracts to keep the people young and happy. • Malthusian Belt: a device worn to discourage sex in the un-sterilized women to avoid pregnancy. • Podsnap's Technique: a process resulting in speeding up the ripening of embryos artificially. • Power Elite: an exclusive and restricted group which exercises power by forceful means.

  16. Pregnancy Substitute: this medical procedure allows utopian women to experience the psychological benefits of childbirth without actually undergoing it. • Subliminal Projection: an image presented to the sight or words to the hearing for split seconds and super-imposed upon visual or aural entertainment. This split-second communication lodges in the subconscious and greatly influences subsequent behavior.

  17. T-Model: the Utopian equivalent of a religious symbol, meant to be a play upon the Christian cross; it honors Ford, the founder of this utopian society and alludes to Henry Ford and the mode-T. • Violent Passion Surrogate (V.P.S.): a chemical intended to give the body the psychological experience of having had normal sexual relations. • Voice of Good Feeling: the artificial voice that suppresses any riot by soothing the people with suggestions of peace through loudspeakers. • Will-to-Order: the drive in human beings that compels them to forge unity out of diversity to the extent of over-organizing things.

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