Rising Action

"Desperately she clung. 'But I'm Linda, I'm Linda.' The laughter drowned her voice. 'You made me have a baby,' she screamed above the uproar. There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not know where to look. The Director went pale, stopped struggling and stood, his hands on her wrists, staring down at her, horrified. 'Yes, a baby- and I was its mother.' She flung the obscenity like a challenge into the outraged silence; then, suddenly breaking away from him, ashamed, ashamed, covered her face with her hands, sobbing." -pg 151

The moment Bernard Marx brings Linda and John away from the Savage Reservation in Malpais to the 'other place', the plot of the novel gets far more complicated. It turns out, the Director of the Hatcheries is John's father. This is quite a shock, seeing as 'father'  is a curse in the modern society. This creates a mess that complicates Linda's mental health, and the Director's reputation. From this point on, Linda is in a sort of soma-coma. This coma adversely affects John in a chain reaction that escalates his emotional state which in return affects other characters, such as Lenina and Bernard. Huxley has one event escalating another, a rising action that the reader can see spreading from character to the other.

Along with the rising action is a turning of the characters against each other that increases with the rising action. A relationship that is particularly interesting is that of Lenina and John's. John admits in the narrator's tone to falling in the love with Lenina immediately. Lenina falls for John without really realizing it. Around the section where they go to the feelies together, Lenina starts to feel a deep attraction to John. The rocky status of this relationship may be one of the highest contributing factors to the climax. Especially since John is quickly becoming the focal point of the novel above Bernard. Bernard has taken a backseat to John as he assimilates into his the culture he was decanted in more than he did before, possibly an affect of stardom due to his prominence and knowledge of the Savages. Nevertheless, all characters will most likely be involved in the inevitable and soon approaching climax.