In spontaneously confessing his anxiety and remorse over the woman's disappearance, the D.H.C. The D.H.C.'s shared memories of losing the young woman he was traveling with in the New Mexico reservation represent a dangerous disclosure. So far, Bernard has experimented with passion by avoiding soma and nursing his anger, but in this chapter, he learns about actual, unavoidable strong feelings - first at a distance, then very personally.
All the conventions of this society - soma consumption, regular recreational sex - are designed to prevent strong feelings like rage and prolonged sexual desire from building up in emotional power.
Since passion is dangerous to social stability, the very thought of feeling intensely constitutes blasphemy, as the shocked Lenina points out. Up to now, Bernard has expressed his longing to feel something - anything - strongly. The chapter further clarifies Bernard's very shallow attempts to be an individual and makes clear that he lacks the moral courage to suffer for freedom. In Chapter 6, Huxley reveals Bernard's pained recognition of the consequences of his anti-social feelings and actions. Appalled by the news, Bernard's "theoretical courage" evaporates, and Lenina persuades him to take soma to calm himself before they fly off to the Savage Reservation. When Bernard calls Helmholtz about the tap, Watson gives him some bad news: the D.H.C. As the Warden leers at Lenina and describes the Reservation - there's no escape, and human birth remains a reality - Bernard suddenly remembers that he left the eau de cologne tap running at home. In the third section, Bernard and Lenina fly to Sante Fe, where they meet with the Warden of the Reservation. But this threat has a tonic effect on Bernard, who later boasts about it to his friend Helmholtz, who likes Bernard but hates his boasting and self-pity. shifts attention by expressing his disappointment in Bernard's odd behavior outside work and threatens to exile him to Iceland. tells Bernard about the young woman he took on his trip and how she disappeared mysteriously during their stay on the Reservation.Įmbarrassed by his emotional reverie, the D.H.C. In the middle section of the chapter, Bernard submits his travel permit to the D.H.C., who remembers his own holiday many years earlier to the Savage Reservation.
Bernard wants an adult - and emotional - relationship with Lenina, not just the mindless sex that consummates their first date. In a flashback to their first date, Lenina and Bernard quarrel when he hovers their helicopter over the English Channel so that they can observe the power of Nature. As this chapter opens, Lenina worries about Bernard's eccentric desire for privacy and his tendency to question basic social assumptions.
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