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Summary The time is 2.27 at the Central Hatchery
and everything is proceeding as always in embryo development and
conditioning. But a worried and grave Director is coming into the
Fertilizing Room where he meets Henry Foster. They talk about someone who
wants to meet the Director in the room that has the largest number of
high-case workers to make an example of the person who is coming. Foster
says that one person is not a big loss, the community is what counts. Then Bernard comes into the Fertilizing
Room, he backs off. The Director asks that all the workers stop what they
are doing right now and listen to him. He then starts itemizing examples
of Bernard’s bad behavior.
Then he turns to him and asks him why not pronouncing sentence now.
That’s Bernard’s chance. He opens the door and John and Linda appear. Because Linda looks very old already, a
gasp of horror moves through the workers. When she recognizes the Director
she asks him if he remembers her. “You made me a baby.” And she uses
the word mother. The room becomes silent, the Director is shaken. Now John
runs to him and falls on his knees saying “My father.” after being
called. Everybody in the room laughs and the humiliated Director runs out
of the room. Characters The most important characters in this chapter
are the DHC, Bernard Marx, the workers in the “Bloomsbury Centre”,
Linda and John. The DHC at first shows up very
self-confident. He blames Bernard having an unorthodox behaviour. But in
the next second, when Bernard opens the door and Linda and John appear, he
is as small as a little mouse. Linda and John are the one who are able to
more or less destroy the DHC’s perfect world. Because John is the DHC’s
son and says falling on his knees “My father!” every worker in the
room laughs. So the Director himself acted against the law and so is not
better than the humans living in the Reservation. Bernard actually gives the Director a last
chance to show his control and his might by saying that Bernard will be
put to the low-class workers and sent to the Iceland but in the next
second he demonstrates his might and his control over the Director by
opening the door and letting Linda and John in. Important Quotes An important quotation is the part when the
director describes the revelation of the scandal: “He came in at once,
paused for a moment just inside the door, looked round, then soft on his
moccasined feet strode quickly across the room, fell on his knees in front
of the Director, and said in a clear voice: ‘MY FATHER!!!!’” It is important because it is the part
where the Director gets smashed down psychologically and in front of the
workers.
Function of the chapter I think the chapter should show that even
the Director has a secret. A secret no one is actually allowed to get to
know but Bernard did it. He found the secret wound of the Director. The
question is once again: “Is this system perfect?” Now this chapter
shows that it is not. The humiliation of the Director shows at the same
time that even an Alpha ++ does not perfectly fit in this system. Also it is a touch of irony that the
Director meets Linda in the Fertilizing Room, the same room where she
worked when they met, and since it was his fertilization of her that
caused the whole situation. So this is the total reversal of fortune
for the DHC who was presented in Chapters I and II as a man in control of
his own destiny and a complete product of his society. In matter of
minutes his life has become a matter for derision and scorn. Observations about the style The author uses a style more
rough and boisterous when describes the moment of the revelation of the
scandal. Personal Comment I think that the DHC in this moment is very
embarrassed and this moment is a crucial point in the book, because for
the first time the director that is a leader and that controls all the
situation in this moment, now doesn’t control the situation and is a l BY GIUSEPPE &ROBERT
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