Henry explains that physico-chemically, all the people are equal.
But Lenina feels that the Alphas and Betas are contributing more than the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. Henry feels that in some way it is as if a person is still contributing to society even after they are dead.
A kilo and a half comes from each adult body and is used for agricultural production. Henry tells her they are for phosphorus recovery. She is curious about the balconies around the smoke stacks. Lenina notices the four chimneys rising out of the crematorium. They leave in Henry's helicopter and fly over the Slough Crematorium. This troubles the Savage, who continues to cling to the old moral system of the Indian/Christian tradition.Chapter five finds Henry and Lenina at the Stoke Poges Club House. In modern culture, he says, the two would just have each other and wouldn’t think twice. When the Savage shows Romeo and Juliet to Helmholtz, Helmholtz finds it extremely comical he can’t understand why there is so much tension and controversy regarding a man wanting a woman. Soon the Savage and Helmholtz begin a series of intellectual discussions and readings. So cordially indeed that Bernard felt a sharp pang of jealousy." Again, Bernard feels alienation and isolation. Huxley narrates, "Helmholtz and the Savage took to one another at once. Helmholtz agrees and soon Bernard, Helmholtz and the Savage start to hang out together frequently. Soon Bernard, having no other friends anymore, apologizes to Helmholtz and asks to be friends again. He maintains, ".so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive."
The Controller rejects the book, citing its dangerous ideas.
In another scene, Mustapha Mond, the world controller, is reading a new science book requiring his approval to be published. It’s at this moment Bernard realizes that nobody has been kind to him because of his own merits, but simply due to his access to the Savage. When Bernard returns to give the bad news to his guests, he finds that their polite respect for him is gone instantly. Huxley narrates, "What should have been the crowning moment of Bernard’s whole career had turned out to be the moment of greatest humiliation." But to Bernard’s agony and anger, the Savage refuses to leave, swearing at him in words only his Indian language can express. This chapter begins with Bernard’s attempt to make the Savage (who is reading Romeo and Juliet) leave his room and come down to the party which Bernard has created- a dinner where the most important dignitaries have been invited in order to see the fascinating Savage.
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