Brave New World (novel)/Characters

John the Savage

• Affectionate Parody: He is a parody of Huxley's late friend, D.H. Lawrence...as the novel progresses said likeness becomes less affectionate.
• Driven to Suicide
• Heroic BSOD: Following his outburst at the hospital.
• Freudian Trio: Superego
• Honor Before Reason
• My God, What Have I Done?
• Noble Savage
• Oedipus Complex: He really likes his mother.
• The Savage Indian
• Self-Harm
• Shout-Out/To Shakespeare
• A Taste of the Lash: Self-flagellation.
• Title Drop
• Ubermensch: In contrast to Bernard's and Mond's Last Men. At first.
• The Ugly Woman's Hot Son

Bernard Marx

• Decoy Protagonist: Not as much a decoy as the first and least significant of two protagonists.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Bernard ruins the DHC's career because he wanted to transfer him.
• Freudian Trio: Ego
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Helmholtz
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Though in his case "normal" means "an accepted member of Alpha high society".
• I Just Want to Be Special: His envy of Helmholtz.
• It's All About Me
• Moral Myopia
• Pride
• What the Hell, Hero?
• Wild Card

Helmholtz Watson

• Freudian Trio: Id
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Bernard
• Intelligence Equals Isolation
• Really Gets Around: Well, he used to.

Lenina Crowne

• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
• Meaningful Name
• Ms. Fanservice: There's a lot of attention given to her body.
• Really Gets Around
• Shallow Love Interest: Zig Zagged. Lenina, to the reader, is definitely a Shallow Love Interest. To everyone else in the story, she's a somewhat abnormal woman. To the man she actually loves, she's not even a love interest to him, and, in fact, considers her odd for a different number of reasons, but still considers her shallow.

Mustapha Mond

• Affably Evil
• Anti-Villain
• Dark Messiah: Hmmm, let's see. First of all, "Mond" means world. His inferiors reference him by the title "fordship." Then, there's his extremist philosophies. But perhaps most significantly, he consciously - throughout the novel, he continuously demonstrates himself as possibly the most anthropologically versed person in the entire world - likens himself to Jesus through his perversion of the biblical quote "Suffer [the] little children."
  • It's probable his first name refers to Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, the founded of Turkey who modernized and westernized it.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist
• Wicked Cultured

Director Thomas "Thomakin"

• I Just Want to Be Normal: He was...until his long lost son came to visit.
• Luke, You Are My Father
• Vague Age: intentionally

Linda

• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
• I Just Want to Be Beautiful
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Too bad she has an *GASP* offspring; why she didn't return to London.
• I Was Quite a Looker
• Senior Sleep Cycle: Drug induced.