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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 reveals that the Director abandoned Linda in the Reservation and unknowingly fathered a child: John. This revelation ruins the director, and protects Bernard.
The Director (Thomas) Quotes in Brave New World
The Brave New World quotes below are all either spoken by The Director (Thomas) or refer to The Director (Thomas). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
“And that...is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”
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The Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre has explained how babies are created; he has told the students on the tour that Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are "hatched" by forcing fertilized eggs to divide into many pairs of identical wins. He then describes how the different fetuses are chemically manipulated in order to encourage them to enjoy the lifestyle they will be assigned to, claiming that this is because "the secret of happiness and virtue [is] liking what you've got to do." Like much World State ideology, on the surface this statement seems persuasive. Common sense suggests Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beata
Chapter 2 Quotes
“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State.”
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The Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre has taken the group of students around various parts of the Infant Nurseries, and shown them a room of Beta children being conditioned via hypnopaedia: a voice that plays as the children sleep and encourages them to feel proud that they are Betas, and to have admiration for the Alphas and disdain for the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. In this quote, the Director refers to these messages as "suggestions," and notes that all citizens continue to receive them into adulthood. The use of the word "suggestions" is misleading, as is Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus
Chapter 10 Quotes
“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual—and, after all, what is an individual?”
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Bernard has taken Linda and John back to the World State, having received permission from Mustapha Mond on the basis that bringing them would be of scientific value. Unbeknownst to Bernard, however, the Director of the Hatchery has decided to exile him to Iceland, and in this passage the Director confides this plan to Henry Foster. The Director reasons that an intelligent, unsatisfied man like Bernard poses a threat to society, and that this easily justifies making an example of him to ward others away from deviance. The Director claims that there is "no offence so heinous as unorthodoxy of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusantium iusto voluptas. Totam qua
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The Director (Thomas) Character Timeline in Brave New World
The timeline below shows where the character The Director (Thomas) appears in Brave New World. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
In the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, a dreary, 34-story building, the Director of Hatcheries leads new students on a tour of the facilities. They pass beneath the...
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The students meekly follow along and scribble notes as the Director explains the fertilization process. Surgically removed human ovaries (voluntarily extracted) produce ova for artificial insemination....
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...the Bokanovsky Process allows the average ovary to produce around 11,000 brothers and sisters. The Director tells the students that this process is “one of the major instruments of social stability.”
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The Director introduces a young employee named Henry Foster, who happily tells the students that the record...
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...a six-year-old Epsilon who is already equipped to work). However, they have achieved what the Director calls “the secret of happiness and virtue,” ensuring that people enjoy their preconditioned destiny.
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...tells Lenina to meet him on the roof later that afternoon, as usual. Then the Director hurries the group upstairs to watch some interesting conditioning in the nurseries.
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Chapter 2
In the nurseries, the group finds nurses setting out big bowls filled with roses. The Director instructs them to set out brightly colored children’s books, also. Soon a group of eight-month-old...
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The Director explains that Deltas are conditioned to hate nature and books, but to love complicated outdoor...
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Next, the Director explains the origins of hypnopaedia (sleep-teaching). In the days when “Our Ford” was still alive,...
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The Director explains that hypnopaedia was found to be ineffective for instilling scientific information, because it is...
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The Director leads the students into a dormitory of napping Betas. From speakers under every pillow, the...
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Chapter 3
...The group watches some children playing a complicated game called Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy. With wonder, the Director recalls that, in Ford’s day, games were played with minimal equipment, like balls and sticks,...
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The Director points out a "charming" boy and girl of about seven or eight, who are playing...
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...the outskirts of the group speaks up, repeating that such old-fashioned policies were terrible. The Director eagerly introduces “his fordship,” Mustapha Mond, one of the State’s 10 World Controllers.
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The students are awed that Mustapha Mond is speaking to them. The Director becomes nervous when Mond indicates that he’s going to speak to them about history, but...
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Chapter 6
A few days later, Bernard asks the Director to sign the permit needed to visit the Savage Reservation in New Mexico. The Director...
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...they enter, Bernard calls Helmholtz, and to his horror and astonishment, he learns that the Director actually is planning to transfer him to Iceland. Now Bernard realizes he only enjoyed facing...
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Chapter 7
...unwashed stench, and her tearful greeting. Bernard, meanwhile, is excited, realizing that “Tomakin” is the Director, Thomas.
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Chapter 8
...he would like to return to London with him, while secretly strategizing to embarrass the Director, whom he’s realized must be John’s father. He says he will take Linda with them,...
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Chapter 10
...hypnopaedic teaching, and older children engage in erotic play. All the workers are cheerful. The Director, however, looks grim.
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The Director tells Henry Foster that Bernard is meeting him in this room shortly, because there are...
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When a nervous Bernard arrives, the Director announces to the assembled workers that Bernard has betrayed and imperiled Society with his heretical...
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...the perpetually youthful workers are horrified by her sagging, middle-aged appearance. Linda embraces the humiliated Director, and soon the room’s laughter turns to embarrassed silence as Linda tells him that he’s...
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Chapter 11
The Director, humiliated, quickly resigns his position. Meanwhile, all of upper-caste London is eager to see John,...
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