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Brave New World



             Bernard goes to the Director and gets his signature to enter the Reservations. The Director tells a story about how he went there twenty-five years earlier with a woman. During a storm she got lost and he was forced to leave her there. The Director then realizes he should not have told Bernard this story and gets angry and shouts at him. Bernard leaves and goes to talk to his good friend Helmholtz Watson about his meeting with the Director.
             Helmholtz Watson is an very intelligent Alpha who has become disillusioned with the society. He is tired of his work which consists of writing slogans and statements to inspire people. Helmholtz says that he is searching for a way of expressing something, but he still does not know what. .
             Bernard flies with Lenina to the Savage Reservations. While there he realizes he left a tap of perfume running in his room, and so he calls Helmholtz Watson to ask him to turn it off. Helmholtz tells him that the Director is about to send Bernard to Iceland because of the fact that Bernard has been acting so antisocial.
             Bernard and Lenina enter the reservation and watch the Indians perform a ritualistic dance. They get to know a young man named John who tells them about himself. He was born to a woman named Linda who had been left on the Reservation nearly twenty-five years earlier. Linda turns out to be the woman that the Director took to the Reservation and left there. She was unable to leave because she became pregnant with John and mothers aren't accepted in the Utopian society. Bernard realizes that John and Linda could save him from being send to Iceland. He gets the permission from Mustapha Mond to bring them back to London. When Bernard finally returns, he is forced to meet with the Director in public. The Director publicly shames him and informs Bernard that he is being sent to Iceland. Bernard laughs at this and brings in Linda and John. The Director is so humiliated that heruns away.


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