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Brave New World Chapter 6 Summary
Fanny suggested to Lenina that someone might have put alcohol into Bernard's blood-surrogate. Lenina is beginning to think that Fanny is right. Bernard's behavior is odd. Instead of wanting to be around other people all he seems to crave is isolation and privacy. She is rethinking her decision to go with Bernard to New Mexico, but there is a sense of specialness in going to the Savage Reservation. Only a few people are allowed to go there and Bernard was one of them.
Bernard's need for privacy unsettles Lenina. On their first date she wanted to go for a swim and then have dinner. Bernard wanted for a walk in the Lake District. He felt the other activities were a waste of time. Lenina was dumbfounded, what was time for if not to waste. To her the only reason to go out was to be among other people and later have a sexual encounter. She did eventually get him to go out among people. But Bernard was unhappy, he would not eat the ice-cream soma instead he preferred to stay in a bad mood. He felt that being himself was more important than being in an artificial state of happiness.
On the way back home Bernard hovers his helicopter over the wav
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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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After work, Lenina and Bernard Marx share a crowded elevator heading to the roof. In front of everyone, she tells Bernard that she will move on a date with him. She offers to take a weeklong trip to New Mexico if Bernard still wants to have her. The public show embarrasses Marx, who would choose to talk it over in private. Lenina laughs at his awkwardness and then takes off with Henry Foster in a helicopter. They leave London for a round of Obstacle Golf, a game for adults. Benito Hoover, an Alpha, approaches Bernard as he watches her abandon, tells Bernard not to glance so glum, and offers him the narcotic soma to build him feel better. Bernard rushes off before even talking to Benito, another sign of his strange behavior.
Bernard feels both ashamed and uncomfortable by his exchange with Benito Hoover, yet he also realizes that Benito cannot help but act the way that he does any more than the rest of community. Bernard notes, "Those who meant well behaved in the alike way as those who meant badly." He gets his control flying machine and bosses around several Delta-Minus attendants who donate him funny looks because he is no bigger than they are. Because physique is
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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 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.
- Bernard