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 **Aldous Huxle****y (1****894-1963)** was born into a family of scientists, critics, and educators. His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist  who helped develop the theory of evolution Also, Aldous attended Balliol College, Oxford. Huxley had some experiences which made him stand apart from the class to which he belonged by birth. He was considered different as a child for his intelligence; we can also see that Huxley reflected this sense, this feeling of being an outsider in characters such as Bernard Marx and Hemholtz. At the age of 16, an eye illness made him nearly blind, and forced him to leave school. Therefore he couldn’t complete some scientific training that was so interesting for him; in the beginning, he intended to study medcine, then he turned to literature. During his college career his brother, Trevenen, who had been suffering from chronic depression, committed suicide. Another event that marked Huxley was his mother's death from cancer when he was 14. This, he said later, gave him a sense of the transience of human happiness. In 1958 Huxley himself said, "The future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell." When Huxley first visited the United States around 1926, he was amused by the extravagance of American society, but he didn’t like how American people spent their free time, spending it in useless things and not in trying to improve their mental capacity. During the 1960’s he became a cult figure. The famous music group "The Doors" named themselves after one of Huxley’s novels, "the Doors of Perception". He died in November 22 of 1963, the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

**Major Characters**    **Thomas 'THE DIRECTOR**': The Director administrates the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He is a threatening figure in the novel because he can exile anyone he wishes to. He is also the father of John. <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">**Bernard Marx** - An Alpha male who is not accepted because he is not physically attractive. He wants things he can not have. He seems lovesick and jealous. Bernard's name recalls Karl Marx. When intimidated, Bernard can be cruel.
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> John** The son of the Director and Linda. John is the only major character that has grown up outside of the World State. He has spent his life away from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation. He finds it difficult to fit into the World State. Shakesphere greatly influences the way he looks at the world.
 * Linda** mother of John the Savage
 * Enina Crowne** a young, beautiful and liberated Alpha
 * Helmholtz Watson** a handsome and successful Alpha-plus lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. Helmholtz is a friend of Bernard.
 * Mustapha Mond** Resident world controller of Western Europe

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** Summary**



The book starts off introducing some of the charchters and the scene. The director is showing a group of students around the plantation where they clone humans. He tells them how they create different kinds of humans whether they lack the oxygen the fetus gets to adding alcohol to their creation. John comes into play with his mother Linda in about the 5th chapter. He says he is the directors son but people critisize him because his mother looks like trash and he speaks perfect english.Soma is a drug used in the World State which knocks people out and is widely accepted. Lenina becomes disgusted by the Reservation, takes enough <span class="chapt_body_italic">//soma// to incapacitate herself for eighteen hours. While she is incapacitated John breaks in and rifes his way passed her. He notices her and starts to recite //Romeo and Juliet// quotes.John and Mustapha Mond end up having a philosphical argument. The sight of dozens of identical twins in a factory sickens John. John argues to Mustapha that if the people of the World State believed in God, they would not be degraded by their pleasant vices. Mustapha replies back "christanity is soma without tear."


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