In this chapter, Huxley opens another part of his dystopian world - the Savage Reservation - contrasting it implicitly and explicitly with the world of London, where the rest of the novel is set. She has spent much of her life on the Reservation, she explains, where she gave birth to her son, John, the young savage. The young savage introduces them to Linda - a 'very stout blonde squaw,' who tells Lenina and Bernard her strange story of being abducted by the Indians.

Strangely, too, the young man speaks like a character from Shakespeare and tells them that his mother - Linda - comes from the 'Other Place.' When he also mentions that his father was named 'Tomakin,' Bernard connects this young man with the D.H.C.'s visit to the Reservation.

This wild dance ends with a coyote-masked shaman whipping a young man until he collapses - a blood sacrifice to bring the rain and make the corn grow.Īfter this bloody spectacle, Bernard and Lenina meet a straw-haired, blue-eyed young man dressed - incongruously, it seems - as an Indian. In quick succession, she and Bernard witness old age in the figure of an ancient Indian, Indian mothers nursing their babies, and a hedonistic ritual dance that fuses Christian and Indian religion. Lenina soon discovers that she has forgotten her soma, so she must experience the Indian village of Malpais as an unmedicated reality. This book brings together detailed notes, academic annotations and study questions for students reviewing Aldous Huxley’s book in an educational light to study its cultural and literary significance.Īldous Huxley was an English novelist best known for his books Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many a Summer and Island.īorn into the house of the prominent Thomas Huxley, the biologist, Aldous studied at Balliol college, and taught French at Eton, where among his pupils were George Orwell and Steven Runciman.īrave New World has been adapted into several TV films, most recently in 1998 by Burt Brinckerhoff for Universal Television.With their Indian guide, Bernard and Lenina enter the Savage Reservation. Only one man seems to want to break away from this system, but he stands no chance against it. Genetic engineering has washed awake the individual traits and strengths. It tells the story of a world where people are born only through artificial reproduction. Sparknotes presents detailed notes on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the science fiction classic.Īldous Huxley’s dystopian classic is considered a timeless masterpiece.

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