Characters Brave New World

LINDA
Linda is the mother of John the Savage. She was left behind on the Reservation while she was pregnant with the Director's child Mother of John the Savage, because she was lost during a storm. She was too ashamed to go back because of her baby, many years later she return home because she misses soma and the comforts of civilisation. Linda ends up in Park Lane Hospitalshe was treated to a series of soma baths and a pleasant death.


LENINA CROWNE
A young, beautiful and sexually liberated Beta. Lenina is a popular and promiscuous vaccination-worker at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Lenina is basically happy and well-conditioned. She uses soma to suppress unwelcome emotions. Lenina is involve with with Bernard, and she tries and fails to seduce John the Savage, because she develops a violent passion for John.

MUSTAPHA MOND
Resident World Controller of Western Europe. He is one of the ten controllers. Mond had himself flirted with doing illicit scientific research and heterodox belief. He still keeps a small library of forbidden books in his safe. Yet he opted for training as a future world leader rather than exile. The Controller argues that art, literature and scientific freedom must be sacrificed in order to secure the ultimate utilitarian goal of maximising societal happiness. He defends the genetic caste system, behavioural conditioning and the lack of personal freedom in the World State as a price worth paying for achieving social stability. Stability is the highest social virtue because it leads to lasting happiness.


HELMHOLTZ WATSON
is an Alpha-plus lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. Helmholtz is a friend of Bernard. He is restive at the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State. Not least, he feels unfulfilled writing endless propaganda doggerel. Helmholtz is ultimately exiled to an Island a cold asylum for disaffected Alpha-plus non-conformists - after reading a heretical poem to his students on the virtues of solitude.

The director administrates the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre. He is a threatening figure, but he is vulnerable becuase of Jhon (his child), who performs scandalous and obscene acts in the World State.

Bernard Marx has unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports and community events. His insecurity about his size and
status makes him discontent with the World State.

Jhon is the son of the director. He grew up outside of the World State. He has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico. He finds himself unable to fit in the World State society and his entire worldview is based on his knowledge of Shakespeare plays, which he can quote with great facility.