Chapter 9In chapter nine Bernard, John, Linda and Lenina is back in London after being in the savage territory. Lenina, who found the territoryvery disturbing, takes Soma that will make her sleep for at least 18

hours. So she has gone on Soma holiday. Bernard can´t seem to go tosleep and in the morning he decides to go to Santa Fé and get the

business and information done about his guests that he brought withhim. He there speaks to Mustapha Mond about why these people are soimportant to research. Mond agrees with Bernard and send him away to

the Warden of the Reservation office where he get the papers aboutLinda and John.

John who is new in the “other” world somehow gets the feeling that hehas been left by Bernard and Lenina and breaks down. But he gets backup and goes into the room where Lenina is taking her holiday. He nowgets these sexual feelings about her. He goes through her clothes and

looks at the zippers of different items of clothes. She is layingthere on the bed and he starts looking at her.

He is reciting pieces from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet about howher hands, lips and body looks like laying there. He is struggling to

prevent himself from touching her but comes to senses when he realisesthat it would defile her. As this is happening Bernards helicopter is

arriving back and John feels even more guilty and runs away and hides.

In this part of the book John is introduced for the first time totheir world, which of course is overwhelming for him. He is quite

amazed by their world, thinking about it as a utopia, seeing the bestparts about it, and not everything else.

In this chapter morale is important. You can notice it when John isabout to touch Lenina. But he comes to his senses and changes hismind. This is because he doesn’t want to defile her. This has to do

with morale and with what is right and wrong. What becomesincreasingly clear, is how different the two worlds are, since John

struggles NOT to touch her, and anyone else would have felt that theyshould do it.

The question is whether you are happier doing things in a slowrestricted way or in a fast, non-private way.

Chapter 10In chapter ten we get to go back to the factory where all the babies

are being produced. The director who has decided that Bernard is to besent to Iceland has arranged a meeting with Bernard in the Fertilizing

room. He has decided to send him away because of his behaviour and hisway of going against ford and society. He describes it as “Sacrificing

one individual for the greater good of the society is no great losssince the Hatchery can churn out dozens of new babies.”

When Bernard arrives the director gets the attention from everyone inthe room. He then speaks openly to the Bernard colleges about why and

where he is being sent away. Bernard gets one chance to say why heshould stay it he takes it. He then brings in Linda and to the peoplein the room this is a frightening experience. Linda who looks dirtyand has a crooked smile and doesn’t fit into their society terrifies

them. Linda who’s had a baby with the director openly says this soeveryone can hear, making them very interested since the director has

broken an important rule in fathering a child. He denies this ofcourse in front of everybody but John comes in and shouts “My father”.Everybody else in the room is now laughing about the humiliation andit’s too much for the director and he runs out with his hands pressed

against his ears.

Here there are both utopia and dystopia events. They sort of go intotogether here. Because the Director sees his purpose of keeping theperfection that is in London. He sees that the best way of doing that

is to send away Bernard and then making sure that his idéas of what isright and wrong doesn't spread on to others. So here we get a glimpseof how the world should be Utopia. But we also get another view when

Linda and John comes in. Because we now get to see what could go wrongwith the way they are living. This is what frightens the staff in the

fertilizing room. You get to see how fragile the world of ford is.