Helmholtz asks to be sent to the Falkland Islands where he feels he could write better. Being told he's to be sent to Iceland, Bernard accuses John and Helmholtz of guilt, that he didn't do anything wrong. Nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand Alphas were killed in Civil War. 473 to make everyone an Alpha-Double-Plus. Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. The world's stable now.' The Controller also tells them of the failed experiment on the island of Cyprus in A.F. you can’t make tragedies without social instability. He says 'Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. He says that beauty is not wanted in the world anymore, or anything old and that people don't understand it anyway. Helmholtz joins in the conversation also asking the Controller why it isn't possible and he explains.

John remembers how Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet and wonders if something like that play, but one that people could understand would be acceptable to the Controller. Only Mond, the World Controller, can make or break laws. Bernard is terrified of his association now with John and what the Controller will think of him.

Mond enters and starts a discussion with John, asking him directly 'So you don't much like civilisation, Mr. Bernard is cheerless and John wandering aimlessly about. Helmholtz is laughing that 'It's more like a caffeine-solution party than a trial'.

A Gamma butler shows John, Bernard and Helmholtz into his fordship and World Controller Mustapha Mond's study. Chapter 16 is key to understanding the main ideology of Brave New World.

Sparknotes brave new world chapter 16