The very handsome Alpha-Plus Helmholtz Watson is admired for his massive physique and writing expertise. He much prefers solitude and is discourteous to others. As a conditioning expert, he detests the shallow messages that are sleep-taught and despises being forced to join in nightly group activities. This makes him surly and angry at the World State's repressive policies and at everyone who is happy. Because his physique reflects that of a Gamma more than an Alpha, he has an inferiority complex.

Rumor has it that he received too much alcohol in his synthetic embryonic fluid in the Social Predestination Room. As he says to John, Bernard, and Helmholtz in a conversation near the end of the book, 'But as I make the laws here, I can also break them.'īernard Marx is an Alpha-Plus male whose growth was stunted during the embryonic stage.

He keeps a secret cache of books on history, literature, and religion, and intersperses his lectures to young Alpha males with facts and interpretations from these forbidden books. Instead of continuing his studies while banished to an island, he chooses to use his intelligence and follow a career path that leads to his current position of power. An Alpha-Plus male, he gave up his passion for pure science because some of his views opposed the State's principles. Mustapha Mond is the charismatic leader of one of 10 World States. He passionately loves Lenina but avoids her as he formulates and ponders a feat that will make him worthy of her. A charming and naïve man, he is disgusted by the lower-caste clones in London and the morals completely opposite the values that form the foundation of his faith. He speaks in a quaint combination of modern English learned on the New Mexico Reservation and Shakespeare's Elizabethan English. Ostracized by his Indian peers and by his mother, who seems to love him one moment and hate him the next, he teaches himself to read and think from the only book he possesses, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. John is the handsome son of the Director and Linda, a Beta lost at the Malpais Indian Reservation about 20 years prior to the start of the book.

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