The plot

Brave New World is a benevolent dictatorship: in this world there is no war, poverty or crime. There is a caste division with the Alphas on the top and the Deltas and Epsilons at the bottom. The novel is set in London in 632 aF (after Ford, a kind of God surrogate). In this 'new world' babies are born in laboratories, people consume daily drugs to fight depression, and everybody is conditioned at different levels according to the role played in society. Everybody is provided for and seems happy but, in spite of this, Bernard Marx – one of the main characters – feels that something is missing. With his girlfriend he visits a reservation in Mexico where people still live as in the 'old world'. Here he meets John Savage with his mother Linda who was banned from New World for a terrible crime: she had become pregnant. They all go back to New World where John become famous. But after a while he isolates himself. While Bernard is exiled, John hangs himself.