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Chapter 6, Part 2 Notes from Brave New World


Brave New World Chapter 6, Part 2

Word of Bernard's anti-establishment talk gets back to The Director. Bernard goes in to ask for a permit to visit The Savage Reservation in New Mexico with Lenina, and the Director seems surprised that he would want to go there. He tells Bernard a story of when he and a woman with yellow hair visited The Savage Reservation twenty-five years ago, and how she disappeared one night during a thunderstorm after going for a walk alone. His words trail off as he remembers... Bernard expresses his sympathies for the director, and the Director snaps at him, denying that there was anything emotional or indiscreet about the relationship. He continues to reprimand Bernard, having heard of the views he expressed to Lenina, and threatens to send him to Iceland if he hears of any more improper behavior. Bernard leaves the room not ashamed, but proud of the individual significance he has achieved by his subversive views. He tells an exaggerated version of this to his friend Helmholtz, expecting sympathy and admiration, but it does not happen. Helmholtz likes Bernard, and recognizes that he is the only one with whom

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Lenina has decided Bernard is definitely odd; she wonders if she should go on vacation with him after all.

But she concludes that she'd rather go to America with him than the North Pole with Benito Hoover. So that's that.

Bernard, we discover, is an Alpha-Plus psychologist, which is why he has permission to visit the Savage Reservation in New Mexico.

Apparently Lenina discussed Bernard while in bed with Henry. (Messed up.) Henry said Bernard was like a rhinoceros, which is to say that he couldn't be conditioned very well at all.

Then we get to see their first date. Bernard vetoes all her suggestions as being "a waste of time." He wants to go for walks, to be alone, to talk.

He also refuses to take
soma
, on the grounds that he'd rather be miserable as himself than jolly as somebody else.

On the way home from watching some wrestling (Lenina clearly won out in deciding to waste time), Bernard hovers their helicopter in the air by the open ocean, forcing them to look out over the grayness and vastness of the waves.

Lenina finds the panorama to be horrible, empty, and dark. She turns on the radio, wh

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Lenina and Bernard fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The hotel room is awesome, since it has television, liquid air (?), and "hot contraceptives." (We don't even want to know.)

Lenina says that "progress is lovely." Bernard responds that this is a phrase repeated five hundred times a week between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. All in all, a typical exchange between the two.

Bernard warns her that there aren't going to be any luxuries on the Reservation, so she'd better prepare herself for it.

The next morning the pair presents their permit card to the Reservation Warden, an Alpha-Minus. He proceeds to pelt them with useless facts about the Reservation.

Meanwhile, Bernard remembers that he left the tap in the bathroom running; not the water tap, but the Eau de Cologne tap. Shoot, he thinks, this will cost a fortune.

Lenina, who has taken half a gram of
soma
, has no idea what the Warden is talking about as he describes the voltage of the electric fence. But she "oohs" and "ahhs" anyway.

The Warden makes it clear that, with this electric fence, no one can "escape" from the Reservation. Hmm.

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Bernard and Lenina spent a day together, before heading to the savage reserve, in which they watch a Women’s Wrestling Championship and they have a meaningful conversation in front of the ocean (or something). The next day, we see Bernard and Lenina visit a Savage Reservation, where life is vastly different to what they’re used to. They watch a ceremony where an 18 year old boy walked around a pile of snakes and was whipped multiple times, before his blood was offered to the snakes. After the ceremony, they meet Linda and John. Linda was one of the DHC’s previous lovers who had gotten pregnant before she got lost in the reserve, and John is the son of Linda and the DHC. Linda spent most of her time in the reservation losing herself to a type of alcohol called mescal, which served as a form of replacement for soma. John’s personality was influenced by three main things: The culture of the Malpais, stories of the Civilized world(told to him by Linda), and a book called ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Thanks to these things, he has a very romanticized view of the world. He agrees to leaving the Savage Reservation with