Even in a society where individuality is unacceptable, great minds tend to set themselves apart from the crowd. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson overcome their differences and apply their similarities to the common cause of helping John the Savage. Before John came to the new world both men were unhappy but they couldn’t figure out what their lives were missing. Both were alpha plus men, even though Bernard was small and ugly while Helmholtz was strong and handsome. This fact should have made both men really happy but Bernard was plagued by rumors of alcohol in his blood as Helmholtz was plagued by beautiful women wanting sex. Excessive intelligence also set the duo apart from the rest of the society though Helmholtz still maintained his legendary status, it increased Bernard’s unpopularity. The third reason for their unhappiness was because both were seeking more than mindless pleasures of SOMA. Unfortunately, Bernard caved into social pressure and use SOMA to escape, including when he was on a date with beautiful Lelina. On the other hand, Helmholtz refused SOMA because he enjoyed the perversity of life. When people offered it to Helmholtz he often found a polite way to refuse. Bernard spent most of his life as an outcast so he spent most of his time with Helmholtz …show more content…
Both criticize authority and question the new world. Bernard gives his opinion in a report to his world controller while Helmholtz gives questionable ideas about being alone to his propaganda class. Even though they both like John, Bernard exploits him by using invitations to meet the savage for his own popularity while Helmholtz has long talks with John about Shakespeare and tries to learn new things from him. Both men go through a lot of changes in this period of the book as they start to realize that freethinking and free speech are really not as bad as their sleep teachings have told
As Bernard begs for another chance, Mustapha has adamant mind. Mond knew that this exile would be beneficial for the two; He was sending them to a place where others, like the two men, saw themselves as individuals who did not fit into the World State community were being sent. Mond tells Helmholtz that he actually envies them. He believes that getting out of such a strict and controlling environment could be a very pleasant
Philosophy has shaped the world in almost everything we have done. Philosophy causes everyone to at least question the norms of society and situations. This makes a healthy pattern for society. If we never were to question anything we would just be blind sheep who follow whatever they are told. Many philosophers challenge the norms in a hope to make things better. Karl Marx and Buddha were very influential people in the world of Philosophy and are some of the pioneers of challenging the routine and normal perception of things and ideas. They had their own ideas that helped shaped the practices and things that people do today. They both can be very different in how they would answer basic questions regarding philosophy. Even though, they
Odd people like Bernard are bound to be criticized and persecuted. It is this setting that creates the social and cultural struggles that Bernard, Helmholtz, and John always
P144 "What should have been the crowning moment of Bernard's whole career had turned out to be the moment of his greatest humiliation." He had tried to elevate himself, to become accepted in a society that shunned him, by using the savage, but it had backfired and therefore the reader can sympathise. Not only had he lost the respect of his peers and fellow Alphas, but also he had lost the respect of someone who was, in many ways, so similar to him. Bernard can be pitied immensely for his ability to sense, see and appreciate things of beauty and as he could value and enjoy his
on the nerve near the ear) was greater on the side of the head that the cell phone was held.[13]
Bernard Marx is the only other character, aside from Helmholtz Watson that is not happy with his
Bernard Marx, one of the central characters who is an Alpha Plus but ashamed of his outlook. From his private thoughts, he has the desire to fight the system and become a popular person. His low self esteem makes him feel that he has the need to yell at the Epsilons to protect his dignity as an Alpha Plus. Even if Marx 's inner thoughts shows that he is a rebellious and indignant person, his actions show otherwise. Because of his unsatisfiable sexual desires and low self-esteem, he criticizes everyone. But the irony is that the ones he criticize are those he most desire to become. He loathes John for his barbaric characteristics. Yet, Marx has to use the "Savage" to maintain his popularity. Marx is trapped in a world which he tried so hard but failed to fit in. From his imagination, he fought his boss. But in reliality, he begged to not to be send to an island and blamed the fault to John and Watson. He critizes Lenina for taking soma. Yet, he
"You ought to have asked me first whether I wanted to meet them." John was sick of being shown to people and gawked at. The rift between John's values and the rest of the "civilized" people was further split when Lenina tried to have John. "Whore!" cried John when he realized what she was doing, "Damned whore!" His beliefs were tested and he passed. The new world was so different than the reservation, Lenina and the rest of society was pushing him further and further away. "They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision! Fiendishly laughing, they had insisted on the low squalor, the nauseous ugliness of the nightmare" What was paradise to some, was hell to John. The brave new world he had dreamed of was turning out to be a nightmare. Isolating himself from the rest of the world was his only escape.
Bernard Marx was alienated in the Brave New World because of his general appearance. As an Alpha Plus, Bernard was unusually short and ugly. Suggested by Fanny, Bernard's condition resulted from an error when he was still in a bottle, the workers
“With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively averted, Bernard hastened across the roof. He was like a man pursued, but pursued by enemies he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone.” (63)
Society is flawed. There are critical imbalances in it that cause much of humanity to suffer. In, the most interesting work from this past half-semester, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx is reacting to this fact by describing his vision of a perfectly balanced society, a communist society. Simply put, a communist society is one where all property is held in common. No one person has more than the other, but rather everyone shares in the fruits of their labors. Marx is writing of this society because, he believes it to be the best form of society possible. He states that communism creates the correct balance between the needs of the individual and the needs of society. And furthermore thinks that sometimes
Karl Marx and Marx Weber The latter part of the nineteenth century was teeming with evolved
One of the greatest debates of all time has been regarding the issue of the freedom of mankind. The one determining factor, for Marx, it that freedom is linked with class conflict. As a historian, Karl Marx traced the history of mankind by the ways in which the economy operated and the role of classes within the economy. For Marx, the biggest question that needed to be answered was “Who owns freedom?” With this in mind, Marx gives us a solution to both the issues of freedom and class conflict in his critique of capitalism and theory of communism, which is the ideal society for Marx. His theory of communism is based on the “ultimate end of human history” because there will be freedom for all humankind.
I believe that Karl Marx and Frederick Engel and W.E.B Du Bois are both right. They both had one specific goal in mind; social equality. Karl Marx and Frederick Engel wanted to close the gap between the ruling class and the working class. The working class were being overworked and underpaid while working in factories. Marx and Engels wanted equality in the society by advocating for a communist society, where all people have equal access to resources. W.E.B Du Bois wanted African Americans to have the same equal rights as the white men. African Americans were neglected in the American society and were not allowed the same rights as the white men.
The way the men speak of the women disgusts Bernard; they act as if the women are pieces of meat. Both men from both novels have some sort of physical flaw that outcasts them from the rest of the people. Bernard is shorter than most and Jonas has unusual eyes.