Brave New World (novel)/Characters
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Characters from Brave New World (novel) include:
John the Savage
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Tropes exhibited by John the Savage include:
- 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
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Tropes exhibited by Bernard Marx include:
- 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
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Tropes exhibited by Helmholtz Watson include:
- Freudian Trio: Id
- Heterosexual Life Partners: Bernard
- Intelligence Equals Isolation
- Really Gets Around: Well, he used to.
Lenina Crowne
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Tropes exhibited by Lenina Crowne include:
- 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
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Tropes exhibited by Mustapha Mond include:
- 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"
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Tropes exhibited by Director Thomas include:
- 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
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Tropes exhibited by Linda include:
- 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.
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