Brave New World Bernard Quotes

Bernard was brought up knowing that hard work and effort will lead to success. With taking his father’s advice, Bernard makes sure that he is prepared for graduation. All of the time invested in school pays off when Bernard gains status as an important Lawyer later in life.

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John’s identities are influenced by two opposite societies, and even though he tries to prove his manhood and change the framework of brave new world, he can’t gain real acceptance from anywhere. John’s mother, Linda, is from the brave new world but gave birth to him in the savage reservation and her different behaviors based on the framework of the brave new world caused John’s isolation in the savage reservation. John decides to move to the brave new world and becomes popular in this society, but his identity, influenced by his “savage” culture, can’t be accepted by the community. His conflict with the brave new world finally forces him to try to change the framework of the society, but his attempt is

He will finally be able to seek the individuality he has always longed for. Although it may seem like a punishment to be exiled, this dismissal will probably be the best thing to ever happen to Bernard. After spending years stuck in a community of no individuality and no freedom, Bernard will finally experience happiness. A similar scenario would be someone spending almost their whole life in prison and then coming out into the real world and not knowing how to react or what to do with themselves. A situation that I can very well relate to would be being freezing cold in the wintertime when it’s snowing and then getting into a hot-tub outside and feeling numb, but not knowing whether it’s a good or bad feeling. Both these real-life exposures can be shocking and uncomfortable, but later

In conclusion, Bernard is interested in pursuing his personal desires, instead of conforming to society because he doesn’t like the way society is and what it is restricting people from.

The character Bernard struggled with this because he was in love with a

The major development seen in John’s character takes place near the end of the story, as he seeks a more pure life in a remote location. John feels as though he’s been poisoned by this new civilization “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness.” (241). He wants to not only live a noble life, but to make this life on his own, so chooses an abandoned lighthouse, far enough away from the disaster of a community he views Brave New World as a negative place with negative ideas. This is a major change from the identity he showed before being poisoned by this civilization, but once again he stays true to his values by leading this new life on his own. John’s strong moral values prove to be the one constant in his character.

Meanwhile. Bernard has a darker personality. He is a vengeful, selfish person. He uses John and Linda to scare the DHC so he resigns, which prevents Bernard from being sent away to an island. Helmholtz, therefore, is Bernard's psychological

John experiences exile on three occasions during Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. During each exile, his lifestyle contradicts the morals, ideas, and behaviors of the Savage Reservation and the World State.

That may also be a reason why he likes Lenina. Lenina is different than the other woman in the novel. The society believes that “everyone belongs to everyone else,” but Lenina no longer believes that. She continued an unconventionally long relationship with another character in the novel because she did not care about the traditional way the society did things. Because she became a bit of a rebel, Bernard became attracted to her.

When Bernard is exiled to Iceland he is unhappy and decides to go the reservation even when told he shouldn’t. When in London his popularity increases and takes advantage of his new status. He used his new status to get to women, but those women were promised that they would get to meet John through knowing Bernard. Also with being exiled Bernard becomes more independent and individualized. “And then he spends most of his time by himself—alone." There was horror in Fanny's voice.”(pg 35) This is the beginning of where Bernard’s defining feature is a downfall and a virtue. It defines his virtue because it makes an individual to be alone. It’s also a downfall because it makes him insecure and manipulative to John.

He is fervently determined to succeed in his contemporary competitive society. In a conversation with his children about Bernard, he enumerates a few

The chapter starts off by Lenina barging into the men's locker room, to tell Bernard that she wants to go to the savage reserve with him in front of everyone in the locker room. This causes him to get extremely embarrassed. Later in the chapter she leaves to go on a date with Henry. Bernard orders people to go get his helicopter ready, but they just laugh and ignore him. Bernard is smaller than the average Alpha, which makes him very insecure about his size. Later, He goes to see his friend Helmholtz to talk to him about his problems of feeling like an outcast.

Bernard juxtaposes Helmholtz. He is an Alpha-Plus who fails to fit in with his caste due to his scrawny physique. His physical stature is no different than those of the average Gamma. It is evident that his conditioning is incomplete as he doesn’t enjoy community events, promiscuous sex, or sports and doesn’t see the need to take soma. Helmholtz is handsome, physically superior, can get any female he chooses, and is more intelligent than Bernard. Unlike Bernard, he is also well respected and is very comfortable in his caste.

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.

Bernard and Pam’s relationship was built on factors that both parties attempt to repress, forget, and deny. For example, Pam was initially attracted to Bernard’s dark color and lower class status. For Pam’s whole life, she “had been shielded from men like him”(38). There was an aspect of rebellion in dating Bernard since he was “a street boy” while she grew up benefiting from old money. Pam also liked the competitive aspect of dating Bernard; she felt like she won Bernard’s attention by stealing him away from the “‘relevant’ and ‘righteous’ campus militants”(38). Pam especially felt good about dating Bernard in the competitive sense because she stole him from a group that originally shunned her for being too light-skinned. As a result, Pam’s