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 Author
0 Aldous (Leonard) Huxley was born
at Godalming in 1894.
0 He came of one of the most
intellectual families of England and
attended Eton and Balliol College,
Oxford. 
0 He intended to become a doctor.
Due to problems with his eyes he
turned to literature.

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0  Best known for his novels including Brave New
World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also
edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short
stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts.
0 His first publication was The Burning Wheel in 1916.
Between 1920 and 1950 he published more than 35
volumes. He wrote novels (Point Counter
Point 1928, Brave New World 1932), short
stories (Mortal Coils 1922, Brief Candles 1930)
and prose (Vulgarity in Literature 1930, Music At
Night 1931). He also edited The Letters of D. H.
Lawrence in 1932.
0 He spent the later part of his life in the United States,
living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963.

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 Main characters.
0 John Savage – also called Savage or Mr. Savage –
and his mother Linda.

0 Bernhard Marx, an Alpha plus psychologist at

the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning
Centre.

0 Helmholtz Watson, Bernhard's friend, Alpha

plus and lecturer at the College of Emotional
Engineering.
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 Story
0 The novel opens in London in the "year of our Ford
632" (AD 2540 in the Gregorian Calendar).
0 Natural reproduction has been done away with and
children are created, 'decanted' and raised in
Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres, where they are
divided into five castes (which are further split into
'Plus' and 'Minus' members) and designed to fulfill
predetermined positions within the social and
economic status of the World State.
0 The people are divided into five different castes:
Alpha,Beta,Gamma,Delta,Epsilon.

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 0 The novel describes life in The World State as
wonderful and introduces Lenina and Bernard. Lenina
is a socially accepted woman, normal for her society,
while Bernard, a psychologist, is an outcast.
0 Lenina, a woman who seldom questions her own
motivations, is reprimanded by her friends because
she is not promiscuous enough. However, she is still
highly content in her role as a woman.
0 Bernard's only friend is Helmholtz Watson, an Alpha
Plus lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering.
0 In typical tourist fashion, Bernard and Lenina watch
what at first appears to be a quaint native ceremony.
0  Linda gave birth to a son, John (later referred to as
John the Savage)

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0 Linda wants to return to her familiar world in London;
she is tired of a life without soma. John wants to see the
"brave new world" his mother has told him so much
about. 
0 Bernard and Helmholtz are told they will be exiled to
islands of their choice.
0  After Bernard and Helmholtz have left, Mustapha and
John engage in a philosophical argument on the morals
behind the godless society and then John is told the
"experiment" will continue and he will not be sent to an
island.

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0 John, hopeless, alone, horrified by his drug use, and the
orgy in which he participated that countered his beliefs,
makes one last attempt to escape civilization and atone.

0 When thousands of gawking sightseers arrive that

morning, frenzied at the prospect of seeing the savage
perform again, they find John dead, hanging by the
neck.

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