-Bernard stabs the director in the back
-Bernard was the guardian of a Savage (John)
-people revered him
-talks of someone giving Bernard alcohol in his embryo development were silent
-Bernard's job is to look out for the John
-he take notes on John thoughts as if he were an experiment
-Bernard brags to Helmholtz about the attention he is getting from being the guardian John
-Helmholtz does not share the enthusiasm that Bernard shares for this feat so Bernard gets upset and decides to leave him
-Lenina might be developing feelings for John
-She liked Bernard because he was different and initially denied her, but eventually (with the help of soma) slept with her
-John refuses to sleep with Lenina because that is childish
-Since Lenina helped "discover" John, she gets to run errands with John when Bernard is busy
-Lenina and John are together in this scene
-The machine is designed to give you sensations and hear noises that are provocative
-During the process, you watch a movie called Three Weeks in a Helicopter
-a dark man and a woman are together
-the dark man develops feelings for her and the woman declines those feelings
-the dark man stalks her and kidnaps her on a helicopter for three weeks
-Three Alphas manage to rescue her and in gratitude she becomes their woman in a polygamy relationship
-John doesn't like the film
-Lenina hopes that her & John might sleep together
-instead John steps into a different cab and says "Good night"
Chapter 12
-Bernard sets up an extravagant party to host the savage (John) and show him off
-Arch Community-Songster of Canterbury, a celebrity, is invited to the party
-After the day with Lenina John does not want to see anyone
-Bernard's shouting outside John's room
-he refuses to leave his room
-John's reading Romeo & Juliet
-Bernard begs him to come out because this is his opportunity to shine in the community
-Everyone uses sex & drug to escape everything
-Everyone, including the songster, gets angry because they were denied to see John
-People began to ridicule Bernard
-“I knew it the whole time that someone accidentally slipped alcohol in his embryo-state.”
-People left the party
-Bernard’s fame as well as his ego got reduced to below average.
-Bernard goes to Helmholtz to reconcile because of his bad behavior
-Helmholtz is more than happy to reconcile
Chapter 13
-Lenina is a bit down because she has obviously developed feelings for John who denies her. --Henry asks Lenina out but she declines
-shes upset about something
-doesn't want to go out with anyone
-Lenina asks her friend Fanny for aid
-Fanny can't believe Lenina couldn't get John
-Fanny basically says to take charge
-Lenina visits John
-John told Lenina that he loved her
-Lenina starts stripping
-John yells at her and calls her a "strumpet" which is basically a prostitute
-He pushes her and yells to leave
-She grabs some of her clothes and runs in the restroom to redress
-While she is changing, John gets a call from the hospital
-his mother is ill
-Linda is near to death
Chapter 14
-Park Lane Hospital
-John flies to the hospital and weeps by his mother's bed
-asks if there's anything to save her "No''
-"Hug me till you drug me honey."
-She momentarily wakes up and says "Pope'' at the sight of her son
-John is obviously mad because she is so "high" she can barely recognize him
-Some kids (twins) enter the room to see her
-they talk about her appearance
-John yells at them to leave
-A nurse comes in and says the kids are being conditioned to accept death.
-She threatens to kick out John but John eventually leaves
-Linda dies in this chapter
Chapter 15
-John is leaving the hospitol
-the nurse has to return to give the kids soma so that John doesn't interfere with conditioning
-John is outraged that kids are taking drugs
-all 162 Delta came for "soma distribution"
-John repeats "O. Brave New World.. O, Brave New World.."
-he says that soma is poison
-John grabs the drugs and "frees" everyone by dumping the drugs out the window
-Bernard and Helmholtz are called for assistance
-the police come and calm down the crowd with drugs
-John, Helmholtz and Bernard are arrested
Chapter 16
-someone asks John "So you don't like much civilization"
-John says "yes"
-Bernard is becoming selfish
-John quotes from Shakespeare multiple times-the person tells him the old things have been burned
-John dislikes new things and expresses that
-everyone is okay with how the new world is
-soma causes liberty
-they have to sacrifice a lot because of what they chose
-they can't replace a persons passion for something
-John doesn't like Delta
-they say that Delta do so much for them
-civil war broke out and thousands of men lost their lives
-world controller took over the island
-Controller asks to take Bernard out
-Iceland is where ppl have a self concious
-he choice to be a world director instead of going to Iceland
-knowledge was highest good
-truth was supreme valley
-mass productions triggers changes
-they emphasis the truth
-ppl are interested in beauty and health
-Controller asks Helmhortz where he wants to go
-he said somewhere with bad weather "winds & storms"
-Falkland Island
Chapter 17
-the controller and John are alone
-Controller tells John they're giving up beauty/truth & religion
-John cant respond to that
-Controller shows John a copy of all his different books
-people don't read them, it disappeared like God
-no one needs or wants God in Brave New Wrorld
-no misery or fear of death in old age
-Controller believes there's a God but "he modifies himself as an absence" now
-they blame civilization
-people never like to be alone
-self denial (industrial civilization = no self denial)
-no need for anyone to be heroic
-soma's always available to forget the unhappy things
-John says "Life is about Suffer; we should be proud of life and suffer"
-John claims all rights to be unhappy: "sin, God, poetry, real danger, freedom.."
-the Controller adds: "pain, cancer, sickness, old.."
Chapter 18
-Helmholtz & Bernard find John and he looks ill
-Bernard feels sorry for what he did the other day
-Controller doesn't let John go with Bernard
-John wants to be alone
-Leaves away from London
-John begins to pray to God that night asking for forgiveness
-he climbs up to a light house
-John is living on his own in a lighthouse
-Reporters want to talk to John
-they sneak a few shots of John hitting himself
-they want him to take soma
-Fans come over and even Lenina comes over and someone sings "orgy porgy" starts
-John wakes up the next morning realzing what he has done
-He kills himself by jumping off light house
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