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Bernard Marx And Brave New World Comparison Essay

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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

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