Brave New World by Aldous Huxley was written in 1932 but takes place some 600 years in the future. Human life has been almost entirely industrialized; it is only controlled by a few people of a World State. World State controls labs where human beings are created and conditioned according to society's strict caste system (Huxley 4). In this world material comfort and pleasure, provided by the drug soma and recreational sex, are the only concerns. In fact, natural processes of birth, aging, and death represent horrors.
             Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus (highest caste) psychologist, is the most discontented person in this type of world; he never enthusiastically engages enough in sex and soma. Scorned by women, Bernard nevertheless manages to catch the attention of Lenina Crowne (57). This Beta-Plus (second caste) beauty agrees to spend a vacation week with him at the remote Savage Reservation in New Mexico (58). The Reservation is a place far from the controlled technological world of London. Before Bernard leaves, his superior, the Director of Hatchery and Conditioning spontaneously reveals how he too visited the Savage Reservation, and he confesses in sorrow the he lost the woman who accompanied him there (97). Embarrassed by his disclosure, the D.H.C threatens Bernard with banishment for his own social sins (98).
             At the Savage Reservation, Bernard and Lenina met a woman from London, Linda, who gave birth to a son about 20 years before. Bernard realizes this is the woman from when the D.H.C came and immediately starts plotting to gain power back home (122). Meanwhile, Lenina hates the vacation and takes bottles of soma to calm herself down. Bernard brings Linda and her son John back to London and presents them publicly to the D.H.C., who is just about to fire Bernard. Shocked and humiliated by his horrifying connection with natural birth, the D.H.C. flees in terror (152). Once a social outcast, Bernard now enjoys h...