Chapters 8-13 Notes “This is a hive of industry” All social insects exist in strictly regulated society. Each bee lives out life while dutifully performing its job as predestined from moment queen lays egg in its cell. Huxley ends extended metaphor with Director seeing Bernard as anomaly in hive and plans public demonstration of what happens to those who disturb harmony of the “hive” or society.

Chapters 8-13 “The security and stability of Society are in danger” Bernard’s attempt at public humiliation of Director Bernard’s last name=Marx, whose social theories stunned and frightened the Anglo-European world less; here we see connection Irony: Director meets Linda in Fertilizing Room, the same room where she worked when they met, and it was his fertilization of her that caused the whole embarrassing situation

Chapters 8-13 “The Savage” John now just known as this, just as people are identified by their castes The assembly-line scene in Ch. 11 in the Electrical Equipment Corporation with conditioned and adapted Bokanovsky Groups is the first crack in the Savage’s fantasy world Scene with Lenina: shows she has no understanding of his standards and morality His feelings for her are strong, but he can’t go against his morality. So, he reads Othello instead of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s play about the Moor who kills his wife out of jealousy and passion because he wrongly believes that she has been unfaithful.

Chapters 8-13 Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury Parody of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England and one of the most influential people in the society He berates Bernard for his actions as if he were a child or an unrepentant sinner and leaves the room with Lenina

Chapters 8-13 Mustapha Mond More fully developed in these chapters: he is a censor who can decide the fate of any person at any time Mond’s censoring of the paper he has been reading foreshadows the fall of another important person, but whom?

Chapters 8-13 Bernard Not the romantic hero he tried to imagine himself as at the beginning of novel Now, as soon as he is accepted into the society, he accepted all of that society’s amenities Blames the Savage For all of his criticism of his society, he is the most superficial of all the characters Tries to renew friendship with Helmholtz, but he has found a true friend in the Savage

Chapters 8-13 Lenina and John the Savage Climax of their relationship in Chapter 13 Clash of cultures: Shakespeare vs. genetic engineering and hypnopaedia In reality, though, no woman can live up to John’s highly romanticized ideal. (kind of like Pygmalion, but his ideal has not been brought to life)