Brave New World- Lenina Crowne (Major).
Lenina is a very pretty girl that works in the hatchery. She is emotional, nave, and capricious, and falls in love with John the Savage. It is implied that Bernard Marx, member of the Psychology Bureau and main character, loves her. Lenina, however, is dating Henry Foster, who also works at the Hatchery. She relies on her best friend, Fanny Crowne, who is later introduced in the story as two-dimensional and superficial. Lenina is urged to find another lover, other than Henry, so she gets involved with Bernard. Bernard proposes that they go see the Indian Reservation together and Lenina accepts. Then, they meet John, who is different from the rest of the natives. After John tells Lenina and Bernard his story, she falls in love with his difference. This shows that Lenina is looking for change and love. She is seeking attention through lovers and is emotionally unstable. John wants Lenina desperately but calls her a prostitute because she constantly throws herself at him, which he thinks is immoral. She is like many other citizens: shallow and unhappy. Like all well conditioned citizens of the World State, Lenina believes in having sex whenever she wants. She is too shallow to understand why John the Savage avoids having sex with her. Lenina is depicted more as a cartoon character than a real person, but she triggers John's emotional violence. Lenina doesn't understand what real love is because she thinks that love is not an emotion, and that she can go from one guy to the next.
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley, 1932.
The novel opens with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explaining that this Utopia breeds people to order, artificially fertilizing a mother's egg to create babies that grow in bottles. Everyone belongs to one of the five classes, from the Alphas, the most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do.