chapter five

In this chapter it starts off with Lenina and the guy she has been dating, Henry, at a golf course. The golf course is an indoor golf course with simulated outdoors. The golf course is segregated so that the lower castes have to golf downstairs and the higher castes golf upstairs. The lower castes also are forced to take trains while the higher castes have their own helicopters. The substance, Soma, is also introduced in this chapter. Soma is some kind of drug that is very common for people to take during dinner and while they are out dancing. The 'Soma Holiday' puts people in some kind of daze, where they are unaware of everything going on around them. Now in London, instead of Big Ben, the clock tower, they have Big Henry (Ford) Instead of the clock dinging nine times to show that it is nine o'clock, a low baritone voice says Ford nine times. In the society in the book, it is mandatory for all women to take birth control.