"Oh, brave new world!" "Oh brave new world

This anti-utopian novel takes place in a fictional World State. This is the 632nd year of the era of stability, the Ford Era. Ford, who created the world's largest automobile company at the beginning of the twentieth century, is considered the Lord God in the World State. That’s what they call him – “Our Lord Ford.” This state is ruled by a technocracy. Children are not born here - artificially fertilized eggs are grown in special incubators. Moreover, they are grown in different conditions, so the result is completely different individuals - alphas, betas, gammas, deltas and epsilons. Alphas are, as it were, first-class people, mental workers, epsilons are people of the lowest caste, capable only of one type of physical labor. First, the embryos are kept in certain conditions, then they are born from glass bottles - this is called Spanking. Babies grow up differently. Each caste is raised to have reverence for the higher caste and contempt for the lower castes. Each caste has a certain color of costume. For example, alphas wear gray, gammas wear green, epsilons wear black.

The standardization of society is the main thing in the World State. “Community, Sameness, Stability” - this is the motto of the planet. In this world, everything is subordinated to purpose for the benefit of civilization. In their dreams, children are taught truths that are recorded in their subconscious. And an adult, faced with any problem, immediately remembers some kind of life-saving recipe, memorized in infancy. This world lives for today, forgetting about the history of mankind. “History is complete nonsense.” Emotions and passions are something that can only hinder a person. In the pre-Fordian world, everyone had parents, a father’s house, but this did not bring people anything except unnecessary suffering. And now - “Everyone belongs to everyone else.” Why love, why worries and drama? Therefore, from a very early age, children are taught to play erotic games and are taught to see a being of the opposite sex as a pleasure partner. And it is desirable that these partners change as often as possible, because everyone belongs to everyone else. There is no art here, there is only an entertainment industry. Synthetic music, electronic golf, “sino-feelings” - films with a primitive plot, watching which you really feel what is happening on the screen. And if for some reason your mood is spoiled, it’s easy to fix, you only need to take one or two grams of soma, a light narcotic that will immediately calm you down and cheer you up. “Somy grams - and no dramas.”

Bernard Marx is a representative of the highest class, an alpha plus. But he is different from his fellows. Overly thoughtful, melancholy, even romantic. He is frail, frail and does not like sports games. There are rumors that he was accidentally injected with alcohol instead of blood in the embryo incubator, which is why he turned out so strange.

Lenina Crown is a beta girl. She is pretty, slender, sexy (about such people they say “pneumatic”), Bernard is pleasant to her, although much of his behavior is incomprehensible to her. For example, it makes her laugh that he is embarrassed when she, in the presence of others, discusses with him plans for their upcoming pleasure trip. But she really wants to go with him to New Mexico, to the reserve, especially since permission to get there is not so easy.

Bernard and Lenina go to the reserve, where wild people live as all mankind lived before the Ford Era. They have not tasted the benefits of civilization, they are born from real parents, they love, they suffer, they hope. In the Indian village of Mal-pa-raiso, Bernard and Lenina meet a strange savage - he is unlike other Indians, he is blond and speaks English - albeit some ancient one. Then it turns out that John found a book in the reserve, it turned out to be a volume of Shakespeare's Feast, and learned it almost by heart.

It turned out that many years ago a young man, Thomas, and a girl, Linda, went on an excursion to the reserve. Thunderstorm began. Thomas managed to return back to the civilized world, but the girl was not found and they decided that she had died. But the girl survived and ended up in an Indian village. There she gave birth to a child, and she became pregnant while still in the civilized world. That’s why I didn’t want to go back, because there is no shame worse than becoming a mother. In the village, she became addicted to mezcal, Indian vodka, because she did not have soma, which helps her forget all her problems; the Indians despised her - according to their understanding, she behaved depravedly and easily got along with men, because she was taught that copulation, or, in Fordian terms, mutual calling is just a pleasure available to everyone.

Bernard decides to bring John and Linda to the Beyond World. Linda inspires disgust and horror in everyone, and John, or the Savage, as they began to call him, becomes a fashionable curiosity. Bernard is entrusted with introducing the Savage to the benefits of civilization, which do not amaze him. He constantly quotes Shakespeare, who talks about more amazing things. But he falls in love with Lenina and sees the beautiful Juliet in her. Lenina is flattered by the Savage's attention, but she cannot understand why, when she invites him to engage in “mutual-use,” he becomes furious and calls her a harlot.

The Savage decides to challenge civilization after he sees Linda dying in the hospital. For him this is a tragedy, but in the civilized world they treat death calmly, as a natural physiological process. From a very early age, children are taken to the wards of dying people on excursions, entertained there, fed with sweets - all so that the child is not afraid of death and does not see suffering in it. After Linda's death, the Savage comes to the soma distribution point and begins to furiously convince everyone to give up the drug that is clouding their brains. The panic can barely be stopped by sending a couple of somas into the line. And the Savage, Bernard and his friend Helmholtz are summoned to one of the ten Chief Managers, his foreman Mustafa Mond.

He explains to the Savage that in the new world they sacrificed art, true science, and passions in order to create a stable and prosperous society. Mustafa Mond says that in his youth he himself became too interested in science, and then he was offered a choice between exile to a distant island, where all dissidents are gathered, and must the position of the Chief Manager. He chose the second and defended stability and order, although he himself perfectly understands what he serves. “I don’t want convenience,” answers the Savage. “I want God, poetry, real danger, I want freedom, and goodness, and sin.” Mustafa also offers Helmholtz exile, adding, however, that the most interesting people in the world gather on the islands, those who are not satisfied with rightness, those who have self-standing views. The savage also asks to go to the island, but Mustafa Mond does not let him go, explaining that he wants to continue the experiment.

And then the Savage himself leaves the civilized world. He decides to settle in an old abandoned aircraft lighthouse. With his last money he buys the most necessary things - blankets, matches, nails, seeds and intends to live away from the world, growing his own bread and praying - either to Jesus or to the Indian god Pukong, his cherished guardian eagle. But one day someone, accidentally driving by, sees a half-naked Savage on the hillside passionately whipping himself. And again a crowd of curious people comes running, for whom the Savage is just a funny and incomprehensible creature. “We want bi-cha! We want bi-cha!” - the crowd scans. And then the Savage, noticing Lenina in the crowd, shouts “Whore” and rushes at her with a whip.

The next day, a couple of young Londoners arrive at the lighthouse, but when they go inside, they see that the Savage has hanged himself.

This dystopian novel takes place in a fictional World State. This is the 632nd year of the era of stability, the Ford Era. Ford, who created the world's largest automobile company at the beginning of the twentieth century, is revered in the World State as the Lord God. They call him “Our Lord Ford.” This state is ruled by a technocracy. Children are not born here - artificially fertilized eggs are grown in special incubators. Moreover, they are grown in different conditions, so they get completely different individuals - alphas, betas, gammas, deltas and epsilons. Alphas are like first-class people, mental workers, Epsilons are people of the lowest caste, capable only of monotonous physical labor. First, the embryos are kept in certain conditions, then they are born from glass bottles - this is called Uncorking. Babies are raised differently. Each caste develops reverence for the higher caste and contempt for the lower castes. Each caste has a specific color of costume. For example, alphas wear gray, gammas wear green, epsilons wear black.

Standardization of society is the main thing in the World State. “Commonality, Sameness, Stability” - this is the motto of the planet. In this world, everything is subordinated to expediency for the benefit of civilization. Children are taught truths in their dreams that are recorded in their subconscious. And an adult, when faced with any problem, immediately remembers some saving recipe, memorized in infancy. This world lives for today, forgetting about the history of mankind. “History is complete nonsense.” Emotions and passions are something that can only hinder a person. In the pre-Fordian world, everyone had parents, a father's house, but this did not bring people anything except unnecessary suffering. And now - “Everyone belongs to everyone else.” Why love, why worries and drama? Therefore, from a very early age, children are taught to play erotic games and are taught to see a being of the opposite sex as a pleasure partner. And it is desirable that these partners change as often as possible - after all, everyone belongs to everyone else. There is no art here, there is only the entertainment industry. Synthetic music, electronic golf, “blue senses” - films with a primitive plot, watching which you really feel what is happening on the screen. And if for some reason your mood has gone bad, it’s easy to fix; you only need to take one or two grams of Soma, a mild drug that will immediately calm you down and cheer you up. “Somy grams - and no dramas.”

Bernard Marx is a representative of the upper class, an alpha plus. But he is different from his brothers. Overly thoughtful, melancholic, even romantic. He is frail, frail and does not like sports games. There are rumors that he was accidentally injected with alcohol instead of a blood substitute in the embryo incubator, which is why he turned out so strange.

Lenina Crown is a beta girl. She is pretty, slender, sexy (they say “pneumatic” about such people), Bernard is pleasant to her, although much of his behavior is incomprehensible to her. For example, it makes her laugh that he gets embarrassed when she discusses plans for their upcoming pleasure trip with him in front of others.

The dystopian novel takes the reader into a world state. This world is ruled by Ford, whom the inhabitants consider to be a god. Children in this world are not born, but are grown in test tubes and then undergo an uncorking procedure. Each child appears and already belongs to a certain caste alpha, beta, gamma or epsilon. Each caste has its own rights and responsibilities, as well as costumes of different colors.

Stability is the most important thing in this state. People here abandoned the foundations, laws, orders and pleasures of an outdated society. Children are trained in their sleep, where everyone is taught the activities of his caste. Also here, the solution to all problems is the drug soma, the benefits of which people also learn from childhood, through sleep.

The main character of this work is Bernard Marx, he is a representative of the alpha caste, but despite this, he does not physically fit its definition. He falls in love with a girl, Lenina Crown, who represents the Beta caste, but is very beautiful and sexy. Together they go on a trip to the reserve. There are still wild people there who give birth to children naturally, can be sad, suffer and indulge in ordinary life.

In the reserve they meet the savage John, they transport him to their new, ideal world. John falls in love with Lenina, but in her world he is just an object of study and general entertainment. John does not accept the new world, and calls on all its inhabitants to return to their past, natural life. But despite all his efforts, no one listens to parting words and life remains the same. John is very bothered by people and research and he decides to leave civilization. He finds an ideal home for himself, an abandoned old lighthouse, and it is there that he is soon found hanged.

This novel shows the life of an ideal state, without wars, terrorist attacks and conflicts. However, life, no matter what, has not become more attractive. Huxley teaches readers to be individual and to live in the way that seems right to each person individually.

Picture or drawing by Huxley - Brave New World

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O brave new world

This dystopian novel takes place in a fictional World State. This is the 632nd year of the era of stability, the Ford Era. Ford, who created the world's largest automobile company at the beginning of the twentieth century, is revered in the World State as the Lord God. That's what they call him - "Our Lord Ford". This state is ruled by a technocracy. Children are not born here - artificially fertilized eggs are grown in special incubators. Moreover, they are grown in different conditions, so they get completely different individuals - alphas, betas, gammas, deltas and epsilons. Alphas are like first-class people, mental workers, Epsilons are people of the lowest caste, capable only of monotonous physical labor. First, the embryos are kept in certain conditions, then they are born from glass bottles - this is called Uncorking. Babies are raised differently. Each caste develops reverence for the higher caste and contempt for the lower castes. Each caste has a specific color of costume. For example, alphas wear gray, gammas wear green, epsilons wear black.

Standardization of society is the main thing in the World State. “Commonality, Sameness, Stability” - this is the motto of the planet. In this world, everything is subordinated to expediency for the benefit of civilization. Children are taught truths in their dreams that are recorded in their subconscious. And an adult, when faced with any problem, immediately remembers some saving recipe, memorized in infancy. This world lives for today, forgetting about the history of mankind. "History is complete nonsense." Emotions and passions are something that can only hinder a person. In the pre-Fordian world, everyone had parents, a father's house, but this did not bring people anything except unnecessary suffering. And now - “Everyone belongs to everyone else.” Why love, why worries and drama? Therefore, from a very early age, children are taught to play erotic games and are taught to see a being of the opposite sex as a pleasure partner. And it is desirable that these partners change as often as possible - after all, everyone belongs to everyone else. There is no art here, there is only the entertainment industry. Synthetic music, electronic golf, “sino-feelings” - films with a primitive plot, watching which you really feel what is happening on the screen. And if for some reason your mood is spoiled, it’s easy to fix, you only need to take one or two grams of soma, a lung a drug that will immediately calm you down and cheer you up: “Soma grams - and there are no dramas.”

Bernard and Lenina go to the reserve, where wild people live as all humanity lived before the Age of Ford. They have not tasted the benefits of civilization, they are born from real parents, they love, they suffer, they hope. In the Indian village of Malparaiso, Bertrand and Lenina meet a strange savage - he is unlike other Indians, he is blond and speaks English - albeit some ancient one. Then it turns out that John found a book in the reserve, it turned out to be a volume of Shakespeare, and learned it almost by heart.

It turned out that many years ago a young man, Thomas, and a girl, Linda, went on an excursion to the reserve. Thunderstorm began. Thomas managed to return back to the civilized world, but the girl was not found and they decided that she had died. But the girl survived and ended up in an Indian village. There she gave birth to a child, and she became pregnant in the civilized world. That’s why I didn’t want to go back, because there is no shame worse than becoming a mother. In the village, she became addicted to mezcal, an Indian vodka, because she did not have soma, which helps her forget all her problems; the Indians despised her - according to their concepts, she behaved depravedly and easily got along with men, because she was taught that copulation, or, in Fordian terms, mutual use, is just a pleasure available to everyone.

Bertrand decides to bring John and Linda to the Beyond World. Linda inspires disgust and horror in everyone, and John, or the Savage, as they began to call him, becomes a fashionable curiosity. Bertrand is tasked with introducing the Savage to the benefits of civilization, which do not amaze him. He constantly quotes Shakespeare, who talks about things more amazing. But he falls in love with Lenina and sees the beautiful Juliet in her. Lenina is flattered by the Savage's attention, but she cannot understand why, when she invites him to engage in “mutual use,” he becomes furious and calls her a harlot.

The Savage decides to challenge civilization after he sees Linda dying in the hospital. For him this is a tragedy, but in the civilized world they treat death calmly, as a natural physiological process. From a very early age, children are taken to the wards of dying people on excursions, entertained there, fed with sweets - all so that the child is not afraid of death and does not see suffering in it. After Linda's death, the Savage comes to the soma distribution point and begins to furiously convince everyone to give up the drug that is clouding their brains. The panic can barely be stopped by releasing a pair of soma into the line. And the Savage, Bertrand and his friend Helmholtz are summoned to one of the ten Chief Executives, his foreman Mustafa Mond.

He explains to the Savage that in the new world they sacrificed art, true science, and passions in order to create a stable and prosperous society. Mustafa Mond says that in his youth he himself became too interested in science, and then he was offered a choice between exile to a distant island, where all dissidents are collected, and the position of Chief Administrator. He chose the second and stood up for stability and order, although he himself perfectly understands what he serves. “I don’t want comfort,” the Savage replies. “I want God, poetry, real danger, I want freedom, and goodness, and sin.” Mustafa also offers Helmholtz a link, adding, however, that the most interesting people in the world gather on the islands, those who are not satisfied with orthodoxy, those who have independent views. The savage also asks to go to the island, but Mustafa Mond does not let him go, explaining that he wants to continue the experiment.

And then the Savage himself leaves the civilized world. He decides to settle in an old abandoned air lighthouse. With his last money he buys the essentials - blankets, matches, nails, seeds and intends to live away from the world, growing his own bread and praying - either to Jesus, the Indian god Pukong, or his cherished guardian eagle. But one day, someone who happened to be driving by sees a half-naked Savage on the hillside, passionately flagellating himself. And again a crowd of curious people comes running, for whom the Savage is just a funny and incomprehensible creature. "We want bi-cha! We want bi-cha!" - the crowd chants. And then the Savage, noticing Lenina in the crowd, shouts “Mistress” and rushes at her with a whip.

The next day, a couple of young Londoners arrive at the lighthouse, but when they go inside, they see that the Savage has hanged himself.

The novel "Brave New World", a summary of which is in this article, was written by the English writer Aldous Huxley. The book was first published in 1932. The title is a phrase from William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest".

World State

The action of the novel "Brave New World", a summary of which you are now reading, is transferred to the fictional World State. This is the year 632 of the so-called era of stability, or the Ford era, as many here call it.

Ford is a real historical character who founded the famous automobile empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Now he is revered as God himself. In everyday life they call it: “Our Lord Ford.”

In the society described in the novel “Brave New World” (the summary confirms this), technocracy reigns. Children are not born from mom and dad, but grow up in special incubators, and eggs are fertilized artificially.

Interestingly, children are raised in different conditions. This results in several separate classes. Alphas include future representatives of the elite class; as a rule, they work not with their hands, but with their heads. There are also betas, gammas, deltas and epsilons. The latter are representatives of the lower caste, who are only capable of monotonous and monotonous work.

At the very beginning, the embryo is kept under strictly defined conditions. And the birth itself is a birth from a glass bottle. This is called Uncorking. From infancy, children are raised differently. Each caste develops reverence for the more privileged classes and contempt for the lower castes. To make it easier to distinguish each other, each caste wears suits of a certain color. Epsilons dress in black, and alphas dress in gray.

Standardization of society

The novel “Brave New World” (reading a summary is faster than reading the entire work) is about a society in which standardization is taken as the main principle. The motto under which the planet lives includes three components: Stability, Sameness and Community. Everything around is subject to expediency for the benefit of others and civilization itself.

After reading this article, you will know what Brave New World is about. The summary gives a comprehensive idea of this. The truths on which society is built are instilled in children in their sleep. They are recorded at the subconscious level. Therefore, when an adult is faced with a problem, he immediately extracts from his subconscious the saving recipe that was laid there in infancy.

Another feature of this world is to live today, without looking back at the experience of previous generations. As if forgetting about the history of mankind.

Relation to the pre-Fordian world

In the novel "Brave New World" (a brief summary will help you quickly refresh your memory of the plot), the pre-Fordian world is treated with disdain. The passions and emotions that reigned at that time, according to contemporaries, only prevented a person from realizing himself to the fullest.

Then everyone had parents, their own home, many loved ones, but this brought only suffering. The motto of modern times says that any person does not belong to himself, but to the society in which he lives. Love experiences are a thing of the past; from an early age, children are adapted to erotic games so that they perceive sex only as a way of pleasure. They also believe that it is best to change this partner as often as possible.

There is no art in this world. There is only the entertainment industry. This is electronic golf, synthetic music, films with the most banal developments, watching which you can feel what is happening to the characters on the screen. And when a person’s mood deteriorates, he has access to a light drug, which is called “soma” here. One gram is enough to calm down and cheer up.

Main characters

The main character of Huxley's novel "Brave New World" (we will pay special attention to him in the summary) is Bernard Max. He belongs to the highest caste of alpha pluses. But at the same time, he is noticeably different from his comrades.

He is too melancholic, often self-absorbed, prone to romance. At the same time, he does not like popular sports games, which is why he remains frail and puny. It is believed that while he was in the embryo incubator, he was accidentally injected with alcohol instead of a blood substitute. They say that this happens.

An important heroine of the novel "Brave New World", a summary of which you are now studying, is Lenina Crown. It belongs to the beta class. She is slim, attractive and sexy. She is attracted to Bernard, although Max's behavior is often incomprehensible to her.

She is amused when she begins to discuss their vacation plans in front of others. Max is very embarrassed at this. But she really wants to go with him to a nature reserve in New Mexico, which is very difficult to get to. Therefore, he tries not to pay attention to such trifles.

Trip to the reserve

The reserve occupies an important place in the novel "Brave New World". The summary of the work will remind those who have read the novel that it was there that the so-called wild people remained. This is the name given to those who live the same way as all of humanity before the era of Ford.

They are still born from living parents, have feelings for each other, grow old and die. In the new world, they find themselves on an Indian reservation.

It is there that Lenina and Bernard meet a strange savage. He is not at all like the Indians around him, he is blond and at the same time speaks pure English, albeit outdated. The savage's secret turns out to be that he came across a book by Shakespeare, which he learned practically by heart.

Savage story

Later it turns out that the savage’s parents, like Bernard and Lenina, once also came on an excursion to the reserve. Their names were Thomas and Linda. A severe thunderstorm caught them right on the reservation; only Thomas managed to get out into the civilized world. Everyone decided that Linda was dead.

But she managed to survive and settle on the reservation. There she had a son, and she became pregnant while still in the civilized world. Because of this, Linda did not want to return. After all, according to the rules of modern society, giving birth to a child is the greatest sin.

She began to drink a lot, Indian mezcal helped her forget about her problems. The Indians treated her with disdain because she behaved depravedly, dating a variety of men. She remembered that copulation in Ford's world is only pleasure. In Indian society, this was considered debauchery.

Going out into the world

The novel “Brave New World” (there is also a summary on “Brifley”) tells that Bernard decided to take Linda and John, that was the name of the savage, to the Beyond World.

When this succeeds, those around Linda still treat Linda with disgust, because she has become a mother, but John turns into a local curiosity. Bernard introduces him to the benefits of civilization. But it's hard to surprise him. In response, he only quotes Shakespeare.

Soon John falls in love with Lenina, mistaking her for the beautiful Juliet. The girl is not averse to showing him reciprocal signs of attention, but when she offers him intimacy, John becomes furious and calls her a harlot. Lenina is again perplexed.

Challenge to civilization

Linda soon dies in the hospital. For John this is a tragedy, but those around him perceive death as a natural physiological process. They are taught this from childhood.

Having survived the death of his mother, the savage begins to convince those around him to give up soma, because it can only cloud the brain. The people fall into panic, it is difficult to calm people down, and the savage and Bernard are summoned to one of the chief administrators, Mondu.

Mond explains to them that in the new world it was no coincidence that art and true science were abandoned. This is the only way to create a prosperous and stable society. Mond admits that in his youth he himself was interested in science, but when he was asked to make a choice - to become the chief administrator or go into exile on an island where all dissidents are collected, he made a choice in favor of comfort. Now he is the guarantor of stability and order.

The savage leaves civilization

Not finding understanding among those around him, John leaves the civilized world. He settles in an abandoned air beacon. He buys only the essentials and begins to grow bread and pray. Just no one knows who - Jesus Christ or the Indian god Pukong.

People passing by somehow notice a savage who is flagellating himself on the hillside. A crowd of curious people immediately appears. For them, this is just entertainment again. Among them, the savage notices Lenina, who, along with the others, is chanting: “We want the scourge.” He rushes at her shouting: “Mischief.” This is how his short story ends ingloriously.

The next day he is found dead at the lighthouse. The savage hanged himself.