Overview - In the park, children are encouraged to take part in erotic play, and they taken for testing if they don't. The touring children are in the park listening to the director talk before Mustapha Mond. He explains history and why the children shouldn't like it. While this goes on, Lenina goes to the bath and speaks to her friend Fanny about her love life. We learn it's frowned upon to stay with just one person in a relationship instead of exploring. Bernard then overhears the assistant predestinator talking with Henry (Lenina's boyfriend) about Lenina. Henry wants to date Lenina but hears Henry tell the predestinator to try her like a piece of meat. It keeps cutting back and forth between the three scenes. While it cuts to Mustapha, he explains more history to the kids and how the dystopia works.
Allusions - Leon Trotsky
Karl Marx
Lenin
Vocabulary learned - Axiomatic - adj - unquestionable
Mustapha - antagonist
Good summary. Now why is this chapter important and what do the allusions mean?
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