Bernard Marx In Brave New World Essay

Bernard Marx is another worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He is considered “ugly” (Huxley Brave New World 46) and small, a trait that is typically seen in lower-caste society members than he. He hold differing opinions than other citizens of the World State: he is uncomfortable talking about going out with Lenina in public, spends his time alone, and he wonders what it would be like to have a relationship with love. When he dates Lenina he mentions that he “didn’t want it to end with [their] going to bed” (93), even in a world where that is the norm, and muses about her being a mother, a word and topic that is considered taboo and obscene in the World State. Bernard is yet another outsider there. Unlike John, however, Bernard was decanted in London like any other citizen, the reasons for his

at the beginning of the novel. When John enters the story, the story focuses mainly on him and his thoughts. This allows for into the strength of his desires towards Lenina, comparing her to Juliet, from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and considering himself the “unworthiest” (Huxley, Brave New World 144). It also provides direct insight into the reasons why he punishes himself so severely for his desires, as he considers them “[d]etestable” (145). While Bernard and Lenina are the main characters of the story, the focus is mostly on Bernard, to allow for an explanation of his differences and idiosyncrasies, aside from the rumors that a factory worker made a mistake and “put alcohol into his blood-surrogate” (46). Because these characters’ differences are allowed to be so defined, it allows for a greater insight as to how these differences clash with the world the characters live in, and in John’s case, to delineate how deeply his “obidien[ce] to laws that had long ceased to run” (170) and refusal to change destroys