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Book cover of Brave New World
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, Bogdan Baran, Vasilis TomanasBrave New World, book 1

Characters in Brave New World

11 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Bernard Marx

    An Alpha who feels subtly out of step with the World State's frictionless society.

    Also in Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

  • John (the Savage)

    Raised outside the World State on Shakespeare and ritual, his arrival in London exposes its hollowness.

Antagonists

  • Mustapha Mond

    The Resident World Controller for Western Europe, who defends the engineered order.

Supporting characters

  • Lenina Crowne

    A vaccination worker who embodies the World State's conditioned ideals.

  • Helmholtz Watson

    A gifted Alpha writer who chafes against the limits of his conditioning.

  • The Warden

  • Pope

  • Linda (Brave New World)

  • Fanny Crowne

  • The Director

  • The Arch-Community Songster