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.
 * Freud Was Right: see Oedipus Complex
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Noble Savage
 * Oedipus Complex: He really likes his mother.
 * Power Trio: Superego
 * Self -Harm
 * Shout Out to Shakespeare
 * The Savage Indian
 * Ubermensch: In contrast to Bernard's and Mond's Last Men.
 * The Ugly Woman's Hot Son
 * Title Drop
 * The Savage Indian
 * Ubermensch: In contrast to Bernard's and Mond's Last Men.
 * The Ugly Woman's Hot Son
 * Title Drop

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.
 * 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.
 * It's All About Me
 * Moral Myopia
 * Power Trio: Ego
 * Pride
 * What the Hell, Hero?
 * Wild Card

Helmholtz Watson

 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Bernard
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation
 * Power Trio: Id
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Really Gets Around

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.
 * Freud Was Right: His philosophy
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Wicked Cultured

Director Thomas

 * I Just Want to Be Normal: he was....
 * Vague Age: intentionally
 * 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.