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some of the key characters in brave new
world include John the savage John is
the handsome son of the Alpha director
and Linda a beta lost at the mal pace
Indian Reservation about 20 years prior
to the start of the book ostracized for
most of his life by his Indian peers as
well as his mother he teaches himself to
read and think from the only book he
owns the complete works of William
Shakespeare he initiates himself into
adulthood and violence and self-harm
mark his understanding of love and
religion his idealistic aww of the brave
new world will transform to disgust
disillusionment and suicide Mustapha
Mond is the charismatic leader of one of
the 10 world states we sense his
complexity in separate lectures on
history in Chapter three and art freedom
and religion in chapters 16 and 17
he knows the world of the past and that
of the present and he seems to operate
with knowledge of both he was much like
Helmholtz but he made a different
decision giving up his passion for
science for a position of power as he
puts it the cost of stability is freedom
Bernard Marx is an alpha plus whose
growth was stunted during the embryonic
stage because his physique is closer to
that of a gamma he's got an inferiority
complex
he's a nonconformist in theory more than
in practice making his name a bit of a
joke unlike Helmholtz Bernard seems to
lack the conviction of his discontent
this makes him more petulant than truly
radical
helmholtz watson the very handsome alpha
plus Helmholtz Watson is admired for his
massive physique and his writing
expertise
he's a writing professor and like his
good friend Bernard Marx he's unhappy
within the mind-numbing culture of the
world state but unlike Bernard Helmholtz
proves to be solid in his convictions
making him a reliable friend to Bernard
and one of the only people in the world
state that John can talk to Lenina crown
the beautiful Lenina crown is a beta her
job is to inoculate embryos against
typhoid and sleeping sickness
though her name evokes the Communists
Lenin she's shallow loves to shop for
new clothes and doesn't question any of
the world states conditioning propaganda
for her relative contentedness Lenina
stands out among the other main
characters of the novel