Bernard Marx
Bernard is an Alpha citizen who, by some mischance, is physically much smaller than Alphas are supposed to be. Bernard's small stature has given him an inferiority complex. As a result, he feels like an…
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John (the Savage)
John is born to a woman from the World State, Linda, who gets stranded in a Savage Reservation in New Mexico. His father is the Director. He spends the first 20 years of…
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Helmholtz Watson
Helmholtz is the opposite of his close friend, Bernard: he is the perfect embodiment of an Alpha citizen. But whereas Bernard's imperfections make him an individual, Helmholtz's perfection makes him individual. Everything in life…
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Lenina Crowne
Lenina is a beautiful Beta woman who works as a nurse in the Hatchery. Her closest friend there is Fanny. Lenina is slightly unconventional in that she has a tendency to date only one…
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Mustapha Mond
Mond is one of the 10 World Controllers of the World State. Mond was once a physicist who loved truth and science so much that he carried out secret experiments. He was then given the…
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Linda
Linda is a Beta-minus woman who accompanied the Director on a date to the Savage Reservation, accidentally got separated from him, and later gave birth to a child, John. She was so embarrassed at…
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The Director (Thomas)
The Director is a pedantic, charmless, pretentious, and thoroughly conventional Alpha male who runs the Central London Hatchery. He takes exception to Bernard's unconventional behavior and prepares to punish Bernard. However, Bernard discovers and…
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Minor Characters
Fanny Crowne
Lenina's friend and coworker at the Hatchery. Fanny is even more conventional than Lenina, and essentially speaks, acts, and thinks exactly as she was conditioned to.
Henry Foster
One of Lenina's lovers. He is a supremely conventional Alpha male, and an employee at the Hatchery.
Benito Hoover
An affable though rather hairy former lover of Lenina's.
The Arch-Community-Songster
The World State version of the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is offended at Bernard’s party when John refuses to make an appearance.
Popé
One of Linda's lovers in the Reservation. He brings her drugs and gives John a book of Shakespeare.