He was born and reared on the Savage Reservation ("Malpais") after Linda was unwittingly left behind by her errant lover. The illicit son of the Director and Linda. Despite his tearful pleas, he is ultimately banished to an Island for his non-conformist behaviour. Bernard's triumphant return to utopian civilisation with John the Savage from the Reservation precipitates the downfall of the Director, who had been planning to exile him. He doesn't like her sleeping with other men, though in BNW "everyone belongs to everyone else". Bernard is in love with the highly beddable Lenina. He doesn't even get much joy out of soma. He doesn't enjoy communal sports, solidarity services, or promiscuous sex. At times, he is also cowardly and hypocritical. Unlike his fellow utopians, Bernard is often angry, resentful and jealous. Bernard's independence of mind stems more from his inferiority-complex and depressive nature than any depth of philosophical conviction. He is unusually short for an Alpha an accident with alcohol in Bernard's blood-surrogate before his decanting has left him slightly stunted. It transpires he is father of John the Savage, conceived after he impregnated Linda on a trip to the New Mexico Savage Reservation.Ī sleep-learning specialist at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The Director is disgraced after a sordid sex-scandal in his past is revealed. His manner is charmless, self-important and didactic. The Director is an intelligent but orthodox-minded Alpha he frowns on Bernard's individualism. The Director runs a futuristic baby-factory where the assembly-line production of genetic castes is streamlined and controlled, and maturing youngsters are brainwashed via neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia into being happy with their state-allotted roles in life. Who's Who in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) WHO'S WHOĪdministrator in the year 632AF of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.
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