Brave New World synopsis

The Story begins in the Hatching Unit of Central London, as a Hatchery employee, Henry Foster, is
showing tourists around. The tourists learn about several different processes of cloning embryos. They
learn about the 5 different castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Each of the different castes
are different socioeconomic classes of people, Alphas being the rich and powerful leader of the World
State, down to the Epsilons, who are malnourished as fetuses so that they can only do forced manual
labor. Lenina Crowne, teaches tourists on how she vaccinates embryos for different environments. The
tourists are sent to the Nursery where young toddlers are held. They witness Delta infants being
reprogrammed to be dumber and less thoughtful. The tourists then go to a room where children are
taught to love the World State, through means of sleep-teaching. There is an ominous voice repeating
various murmurs. They are then introduced to Mustapha Mond, one of the World Controllers, who
explains the history of the World State. Meanwhile Lenina gossips in the bathroom with a friend Fanny
Crowne about liking a man named Bernard Marx, who also works with them. After work, Lenina chats
with Bernard, and they talk about going on a trip to the Savage Reservation in New Mexico.

When Lenina and Bernard get to the reservation, they are shocked to see that people there look
aged, as Lenina and Bernard have never seen people looking older, as aging is not a thing in there
society. They witness a ceremony with a man being whipped, and some terrifying singing. They meet a
man name John, who is white and isolated from the rest of the villagers. John tells them about a woman
named Linda, who fled the World State. They go to see her. John tells Lenina and Bernard about the
books that he learned to rad, “The Chemical and Bacterialogical Conditioning of the Embryo, and and
The Complete Works of Shakespeare,”, and Linda talks to them about one of her lovers, Pope. John is
excited to come to the World State, calling it the “Brave New World.” Lenina, who is disgusted be the
Reservation, overdoses on soma and sleeps for a day straight. Bernard, Lenina, John, and Linda all fly
back to London, and are greeted by the Director. Bernard introduced John and Linda, the Savages, to the
director and his Alpha co-workers. John becomes very popular in the London society, but is very
concerned with the society his lives in now. Bernard also becomes popular, as he is the one who
introduced “The Savage.” Bernard lets his new popularity get to his head, and begins hosting huge
dinner parties with other very prominent Alphas. One night John doesn’t want to come see the guests,
and Bernard becomes very unpopular quickly. John reads parts of Romeo and Juliet to his new friends,
and they are confused by all of the romance, because those ideas are unheard of in the World State.
Lenina becomes obsessed with John and tries to seduce him with soma, and John cusses her out with
lines of Shakespeare. Linda is dying, and John is forced to go to her death conditioning ceremony. John
begins plotting to overthrow society, and tries to get a group of deltas to join him, which doesn’t work
out well, and results in a fight. John and Bernard are arrested for fighting and are brought to see
Mustapha Mond. John and Mustapha argue about the World State’s policies, and Mond states that,
“Stability and happiness is more important than humanity.” John and Mond continue arguing about
everything from religion to soma use. John becomes severely depressed and tells Bernard he is going
away, and runs away to a lighthouse out in the country. Lenina comes to see him, but he has already
gone insane and screams to kill Lenina, and attempts to with a whip. At the end of the story John hangs
himself.