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CHAPTER FIVE

Part 1 Summary: Henry and Lenina finish up their date at the Obstacle Golf. They then hop in the helicopter and fly back, passing a Crematorium on the way. This is where Lenina begins to question and think about some of the castes problems. However, Henry redirects her, and she forgets her train of thought. Once they land, they go to a night club after taking a bit of soma, and there are a whole bunch of couples there too dancing in a soma-induced frenzy.

Part 2 Summary: Bernard occasionally goes to a Solidarity Service (Every other Thursday). He was already late and somewhat anxious. However, when he arrives at the place where the Service is held, he finds that he is indeed not the last one there. Unfortunately, in his rush, he selects a seat at random and is forced next to Morgana Rothschild. She has a very scary unibrow which frightens Bernard, hinting at his own physical insecurities. After all the people arrive, the service begins in a crazy, zealous soma ritual. Everybody gets really into the Ford and his coming except Bernard, yet he pretends to be, just to sort of fit in and not feel awkward. (Which goes unsuccessful, because afterwards, he feels even more isolated and miserable as before.)

Vocabulary: Pullulation - Pullulate is a verb that means to germinate or sprout from. Describes the sprouting of the lower-castes coming when the Alphas and Betas approached the monorail.

Allusions: (Lots of them O_o)
Big Henry ---> Big Ben, the huge Clock!

Malthusian ---> Thomas Robert Malthus: 1766-1830's British political economist. Theorized the dangers of overpopulation would preclude endless progress towards a utopian society.

Fifi Bradlaugh ---> Charles Bradlaugh = Political Activist and Notable Atheist. (Irony in the fact Fifi shares this last name yet attending a somewhat religious ceremony.)

Morgana Rothschild (Has a freaky Unibrow) ---> Morgan La Faye?

Joanna Diesel ---> Rudolf Karl Diesel, German Guy that made the Diesel Engine.

Sarojini Engels ---> Friedrich Engels; German philosopher & right-hand to Karl Marx in the study of communist theory
                         ---> Sarojini Naidu, an Indian freedom fighter and activist.

Herbert Bakunin ---> Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary and popularized the Anarcho-Collectivism doctrine.

"Twelve of them ready to be made one..." ---> 12 Disciples

Tom Kawaguchi ---> Possible allusion to either Kiyotake Kawaguchi; a WWII general and/or Matsutaro Kawaguchi, and 20th Century novelist with published works around the same time as some of Huxley's books.

Clara Deterding ---> Henri Detereding, supporter of the Nazi party and pioneer in the oil industry.

Orgy-Porgy ---> Georgy Porgy (Nursery Rhyme, Children's song)


Why Chapter is Important: This chapter shows what most citizens do in the New World. A lot of the events revolve around the use of soma and how happy it makes its users. There are also some pretty severe uses that go into rituals such as the one that Bernard attended.
The activites also mirror what is acceptable in our society, dancing and rituals using heavy drug use (soma) are the norm and fit into the daily lives of all the citizens of the New World. However, in our society, these are only events that the strange, crazy, and looked-down upon people would partake in and would be severly punished if found out.