Bernard Quotes From 'Brave New World'

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, is a masterpiece of science fiction. His imagined, dystopian state creatively employs facts and theories of science, as well as his very own thinly-veiled commentary on the future of society. His family background and social status, in addition to molding Huxley himself and his perspective, no doubt made impact on his writing and contributed to the scientific accuracy of his presentation. However, Huxley certainly qualifies as a social commenter and his extensive works, while sometimes biased, were always perceptive comments on the future of mankind, predictions made based on current event in his world. In other words, current affairs had undeniable impact on Huxley’s novel, and his

As humans we tend to see the success of a person’s accomplishments rather than how it all began, the struggles that person had to experience to get to where they are in the end. What this quote means is that happiness may appear like happiness to a person on the outside looking in, but in reality you do not have a general idea of what that person had to go through for their happiness. The quote is saying we want happiness, stability, passion, and contentment, but no one wants to struggle and live through misery to get there. The success in the end is dull, but the suffrage and challenges are far more

Fredrich Engles (1820-1895) was a German social scientist, journalist, and professional revolutionary. He was chiefly known for his close collaboration with Marx. He helped Marx with ideas on economics and with his writings. His communist beliefs took effect in the BNW in the concept that everyone is enslaved to the civilization and that there is complete equality in each caste.

According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, bravery is “possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance” (Agnes 178). Oftentimes, people are commended for acts of bravery they complete in the heat of a moment or overcoming a life-changing obstacle. Rarely one is commended for simply living a brave life, facing challenges they do not even understand. The characters in the Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World live a peculiar lifestyle demonstrating bravery for just breathing. Although Huxley’s ideas are surfacing today, the dystopia he creates is unrelatable . The genetic make-up of these men and women is different, creating a human lacking basic function of life. In Western Europe an individual forms in a laboratory, “one egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress” (Huxley 6). The dystopian way of reproduction rarely involves a man impregnating a woman. Huxley’s characters are born in a laboratory. These class divided people are manipulated to be personality less , sex-driven, dumb-downed, assembly line workers. Brainwashing from birth conditions them to go through the motions without doubting their purpose. Government controllers are not looking out for the egg at all, simply manufacturing them to keep the

Once Lenina learns that they share the same feelings towards each other, she takes it as a physical desire rather than an emotional desire, which John ends up loathing.

" A man should not be forced to do what he doesn't want to do. But since it's his take for being part of this religion, he must. However, I feel pity towards Bernard because in my view he doesn't want to be part of the service he doesn't feel

A world without fear, without pain, without age...utopia, right? A stable world such as this can look good on paper, but not until you look at it in reality. Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by author Aldous Huxley displays a society in which men and women are mass-manufactured as twins and conditioned even while they are being developed, to fit a pre-ordained societal role. In this novel, the characters of importance are as follows, John, Linda, Lenina, Helmholtz, Bernard, Mustapha Mond, and The Director. Bernard is a normal product of society designed to do the role he was created for. All goes according to plan until he introduces an unexpected outlier; John the Savage. A man born of normal means in one of the only traditional

In the first sentence of the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the reader is exposed to the slogan of the World State, “Over the main entrance…a shield [with] the World State’s motto: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY" (Huxley 3). What the reader does not understand at that point is that this motto is the complete opposite of how the civilization operates. In the mind of the World State Controller, these words represent what the 'new and improved' society has achieved. However, the goals of community and identity are impossible to reach because of the questionable actions performed by the government. Community and identity lead to the goal of stability.

This quote is talking about how dating works. In the book everyone dates everyone but Bernard one of the characters in the book doesn’t believe in the way this work or the way they treat people, and I agree with him because like he said in

“Pursuit of happiness is a pursuit of mirage; you only realize it 's a delusion at the end of the road” (“Quotes about Mirage”). Undeniably, the quest of perpetual happiness bares an ancient path that allures pursuers with the promise of vanished pain. As one follows this trail of faded footsteps, their vision of reality soon becomes blurred by their dreams of prosperity. Thus, this enduring road guides one into the deep waters of oblivion where their mind becomes flooded with the whispers of fantasies. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the cost of this everlasting happiness is questioned as it is freely given to one in exchange for their perception of the definite truth. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, a utilitarian factory that artificially produces human beings. The sole objective of this laboratory is to create a stable world where the only emotion experienced by its’ subjects is abiding elation. However, this imposed societal idea leaves the citizens of the State in a world of fiction. The novel Brave New World, exhibits the creation of fictitious euphoria through the concealment of history, development of social conditioning, and advancement of science.

Bernard is a person who was misdiagnosed with mental disorder and institutionalized for 18 years at Willowbrook. It was later found trough an accurate diagnosis that he was actually physically disabled from Cerebral Palsy. Although, the referenced conditions mentioned in the Unforgotten report 25 years after Geraldo Rivera’s original report were unjust for any human being, they were much less merited for a person who did not belong in the institution in the first place. Bernard described his experience as being “disgusting”. And, they were. The poor people were not given adequate training/schooling. Those who were able to learn to feed themselves, never learned that basic skill, nor were they provided with the basics of clothing, and

In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, it’s mostly about far in the future and hypnopaedia. Most characters in this novel believe in the value of society over themselves. They exist to serve their community. They have their own jobs that will keep the economy cycling. There are two main characters Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx. They’re both different and similar in different things. Helmholtz and Bernard have similarities and differences in character traits, how people treat them and what they think about the society.

This quote is talking about how Bernard is being executed and he is saving himself by bringing Linda and John back to London to shame his director and to save him from being sent to Iceland. I feel like this is wrong on so many levels because he is only using John and Linda so he won't get moved, he doesn't actually care about them. And he also embarrass John Linda and his director infront of everyone which it very wrong of him to do. I also question how him bring Savages back from London helps him in the first place because it doesn't get rid of all the bad things he has done to get moved in it just covers them up but it doesn't change does it? (129)

Since the beginning of time, people have had differences in their thought processes, causing everyone to behave differently. The main problem with all utopian visions is that they do not take into account that the actions people make are based on their past experiences, and no one will ever be able to change each individual's beliefs and values. For instance, technology could aim to control every aspect of human life, but there will always be at least one person who makes their own decisions. In Brave New World, people are given hypnopaedia at a young age to condition them to all think similarly. Essentially, society plays God, and people are unable to change who they are. Unlike everyone else in the World State, Bernard has feelings and says,

Huxley observes in his work, Brave New World that the modern world revolves around technological development. The aspirations and morals of modern society do not entirely rely on social issues such as love, family, and success but rather on industrial progress and social development. According to Huxley, technological improvement and growth are critical factors that shape the operation and activities in modern society. So far, community members need to observe the world as technologically oriented and collective social setting. Instead of being interested in individual social development, modern society is focusing its attention on merging technological transformation and their impact in modern