Tots spend two mornings a week in the Hospital for the Dying and are given chocolate ice cream, and they learn to take dying as any other process. They tell John of Death Conditioning, which begins at eighteen months. Bernard continues to hit on the Head Mistress. John sees a film of some of the religious rituals he is familiar with, and asks with pain and bewilderment why all the students are laughing at it. John learns about freemartins, sterile and genderless members of the upper caste. The Savage is taken to Eton, a private school community reserved for upper-caste boys and girls. In an interlude, Bernard reports to Mond that the Savage (John) refuses to take soma and is distressed about the state of his mother and the fact that despite her repulsiveness, the Savage still goes to see her, citing this as an example of early conditioning. John gets a tour of the Central London Hatchery facilities, similar to the tour the students received. Mond finds his reports patronizing and thinks that Bernard has gone mad to lecture him, the World Controller, on the social order. He instructs that the Savage be shown all aspects of civilized life, and reports back to Mustapha Mond that the Savage shows little surprise at the civilized inventions. People talk behind his back, predicting that his fame will come to an end when the uproar ends, and that he will not find another Savage when this one loses its novelty.
Bernard boasts about his conquests to Helmholtz, and when Helmholtz seems sad, Bernard interprets this as envy, and vows not to talk to him ever again. Even Fanny, Lenina's friend, agrees that Bernard is sweet. Once inferior and looked down upon, he now receives gifts and is favored by many women. The doctor thanks Bernard for the wonderful example of senility.īernard is the big man on campus. Linda lives in a world of soma, with beautiful music, colors, and scent, a paradise without end. John objects, but the doctor tells him it is better than having her screaming mad all the time. Her fatness and decayed state makes people feel sick, and she is put on permanent soma-holiday, in amounts so great that the doctor confides to Bernard that it will soon finish her off, shutting down her breathing. Nobody, however, wants to see Linda, for she is not a real savage, only a mother, which is an obscenity. Everyone wants to see the son of the director.
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