chapter seven

At the beginning of this chapter, the Director is troubled after sharing the story of New Mexico with Bernard. He has a meeting with Bernard where he tells him that he has heard some unpleasing things about his actions outside the work place. He tells him that if things do not cahnge, he will be transferred to a sub-centre in Iceland. The threat actually pleases Bernard. He thinks maybe the people in Iceland will be different, more human, but Bernard realizes that the threat is just a threat and nothing else.

Bernard and Lenina fly to New Mexico for the summer holiday. Though Lenina does not particularly like Bernard, she accompanied him because she only had one other option. Her other option was to spend the holiday in the North Pole, which she found boring. Bernard has to go to the New Mexican reservation and tried to talk Lenina into staying at the hotel in Santa Fe. Though Lenina would much rather stay at the hotel and play golf all day, she refuses to be left behind.

The reservation was made for a preserving a small faction of 'savages.' These savages were people of the old times. They lived as families, with marriage, religion and children ( naturally born.) In the reservation there was still disease, wild animals, no condtioning at all, and love. When the warden of the reservation was explaining this to Lenina, she was amused, imagining the 'savages' as wild animals themselves. the reservation had electric fences, insuring that people that were born in the reservation would also die in the reservation. There was no escaping it.
After leaving the warden, Bernard calls his friend Helhotz back in London, and Helmholtz gives him some bad news. The Director has announced that his threat was not just a threat and that when Bernard returned, he intended to exile him to Iceland. The thoguht of Iceland was no longer a pleasant one for Bernard.