Character List
Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury: Introduced in Chapter 11: The Songster is a powerful man who first meets with Lenina. At her request Bernard invites him to a party to meet John. When John refuses to come, the Songster gets upset and leaves. He drags Lenina with him, although she appears to be unhappy and slightly unwilling.
Benito Hoover: Introduced in Chapter 4: Hoover is a former lover of Lenina, described by her as being too hairy. He is stereotypical of the Alpha caste in obeying all the social norms and quoting his hypnopaedic learning.
Bernard Marx: Introduced in Chapter 3: Bernard Marx is in love with Lenina Crowne, contrary to all of the social conditioning. He is short and physically inadequate for the status of Alpha-Plus, and therefore has an inferiority complex. Other characters believe that he may have accidentally received a dose of alcohol while in the fetal stages. He is more independent thinking as a result of feeling separate. Bernard Marx is close friends with Helmholtz Watson.
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning: Introduced in Chapter 1: The Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, also called Tomakin, leads a group of students on a tour. He introduces them to the techniques of fertilization and segregation into classes. Tomakin is later humiliated by the arrival of Linda and John the Savage and resigns in disgrace.
Dr. Shaw: Introduced in Chapter 11: Shaw is the doctor who looks after Linda and gives her soma so she can be happy.
Helmholtz Watson: Introduced in Chapter 4: Watson is an Alpha-Plus with slightly too much intelligence. He is friends with Bernard Marx because both he and Marx have become outsiders within the society. Watson eventually writes a poem which gets him in trouble. He quickly becomes enamoured by John's Shakespearean verse before being sentenced to live in the Faukland Islands.
Henry Foster: Introduced in Chapter 1: Foster is an expert on statistics within the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He joins the student tour at the Director's behest and quotes facts about the processes of the hatchery. He is also in charge of maximizing the number of embryos each ovary can produce. Foster is one of LeninaÕs most frequent dates.
His Fordship Mustapha Mond: Introduced in Chapter 3: Mustapha Mond is the Resident Controller for Western Europe and one of the Ten World Controllers. He alone makes the rules for society and decides what may be published. Mustapha has read Shakespeare and other forbidden books, making him one of the most independent thinkers within the society. He is the man who gives Bernard permission to bring the Savage and his mother back to London.
Lenina Crowne: Introduced in Chapter 1: Lenina is a beautiful woman who is introduced to the group of students while inoculating the infants against yellow fever. She is dating Henry Foster in the beginning, but agrees to go out with Bernard Marx to the Savage Reservations. After the Reservations Lenina becomes popular by her association with the Savage. She continually tries to sleep with the Savage, but becomes frustrated by his unwillingness. After she strips in front of John, he tries to beat her. Lenina visits John at his lighthouse at the end of the novel and he starts to whip her. It is unclear whether she is killed or not.
Linda: Introduced in Chapter 7: Linda is the mother of the Savage and the woman whom the Director brought to the reservation. She is an alcoholic and rather obese. After her return to the Utopian society she consumes too much soma and dies soon thereafter.
Mitsima: Introduced in Chapter 8: One of the older Indians who takes John (the Savage) and teaches him to make clay pots.
Morgana Rothschild: Introduced in Chapter 5: The member of Bernard's Solidarity groups whose unified eyebrows distract him so much.
Pope: Introduced in Chapter 7: Pope is the alcoholic lover of Linda, and is the man that John tries to kill after he discovers Pope sleeping with his mother one night.
John Savage: Introduced in Chapter 7: The Savage, also known as John, is the son of the Director and Linda. He was born on the reservation in a city called Malpais (translated to mean "bad city"). He grew up as a hybrid of the Indian and Utopian cultures, with a volume of Shakespeare serving as his guide to life. As a result, he was often excluded from Indian rituals. He and his mother Linda accompany Bernard Marx back to London where he soon becomes a celebrity. John falls in love with Lenina and imagines his love for her is similar to that of Romeo and Juliet. He soon has trouble conforming to the ideals of the Utopian world and strikes out in an effort to assert his individuality. John Savage finally runs away from the society but is hunted down by a mob of sightseers. In the end he is forced to commit suicide.
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