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Character creation Isabel Ruiz Yepes - 10°A - Coggle Diagram
Character creation
Isabel Ruiz Yepes - 10°A
Basic information
Physical Description: Jessica is a Beta (from Brave New World), due to her caste she is tall, blonde, with white skin, long hair, and dressed in mulberry colour clothes (like all Betas).
Name: Jessica Phillips
Age: 65 years old
Background
Jessica is a Beta woman that works in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. She has been working there since she was 19 years old.
The most important event that links Jessica to Brave New World is that she committed the mistake of adding alcohol to Bernard Marx's blood surrogate. Since she worked with the embryos since she was 19 years old, she cared Bernard Marx when he was and embryo, however she accidentally added alcohol to his blood surrogate, which caused that his physical appearance is different from the other Alphas (as described in the book).
Personality & Traits
Personality
Jessica is a friendly and intelligent woman, and her personality is deeply influenced by the values taught to the castes in Brave New World. She worships Ford (like all the other Betas) and believes that being united as a society is very important (like the quote of the book "Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one").
Strengths
Jessica has 2 main strengths: 1. She is very good to identify details, she is always looking for patterns in Bernard's behaviour and notices every slight difference on his routine. 2. She is very analytic, she has the ability to link events to learn from her surroundings and to learn about others' life (specially Bernard's life).
Weaknesses
Jessica's main weakness is her obsession with Bernard, which affects her mental health, distracts her from her daily activities and sometimes makes her feel guilty about the mistake she did several years ago (the mistake she committed with the embryo).
Role in the Story
Contribution to the story
Since Jessica is obsessed with Bernard, she has studied his behaviours, appearance and words, which has led her to deeply understand him. This contributes to the story because it is interesting to see how Jessica constantly observes Bernard's life without being noticed by him at all.
Impact on main characters
Jessica's deep knowledge of Bernard directly impacts him, because the fact that she knows his routines, his relationships, and even his weaknesses and strengths gives her power over him, because she can use this valuable information either to help him or harm him.
Character becoming part of the story
Jessica made a very serious mistake by accidentally changing the conditions of Bernard Marx when he was an embryo, this made her feel very guilty and become obsessed with Bernard, so she has observed him throughout his life (when he was a baby, then a kid and she stills observes him as a grown up).
Scene Creation
This scene would affect the storyline because it implies that Jessica is no longer spying Bernard, but she focuses on observing Lenina.
In this scene Jessica will be indirectly interacting with Bernard and Helmholtz. In the book of Brave New World, this scene would happen in the chapter were Bernard has not talked to Lenina yet.
The scene starts when Jessica walks by a hallway where Bernard and Helmholtz are talking. She hides in a corner where she cannot be seen by the 2 men, and hears their short conversation where Bernard tells Helmholtz that he likes Lenina but confesses he does not know why. Instantly Jessica thinks: "is the fact that he likes Lenina connected with the mistake I committed when he was an embryo? I must find out more about Lenina to understand why Bernard likes her". After that she starts thinking on a plan to find Lenina and spy her.