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Illustrated portrait of Henry Foster

A character in Brave New World

Henry Foster

Henry is an Alpha administrator and one of Lenina’s regular sexual partners.

The book

Cover of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, 1932

A society gives up freedom willingly because comfort, entertainment, and chemical happiness feel easier.

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Who they are in the book

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Henry is an Alpha administrator and one of Lenina’s regular sexual partners. He is cheerful, efficient, and almost perfectly adjusted to the World State. He helps explain social norms because he treats them as obvious rather than oppressive. He suffers no major reversal and remains part of the system.

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