Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Bourgeoisies are the business owners of our current capitalist society. Bernard is an Alpha Plus, but due to his stature he is not treated as one, the discrimination he faces leads him to question himself and the society around him. But, unlike Mustapha Mond he does go past questioning, this is because he is scared of the consequences. This is evident throughout the book due to Bernard’s place in the world state he can only question society but he can’t do anything more than that as he has a fear of being alienated by society. It is evident that Bernard is not like the other Alpha Plus males, when he is in the charge room one day and he overhears Henry foster offering his girlfriend to another colleague, Bernard was disgusted. He does not objectify women like the rest of society in the World State does, but due to his fear of being alienated he remains quiet. Whenever Bernard is discriminated or treated unjustly he wonders “would the creature treat his with respect due to his caste?”(55), this question haunted him. The quote shows that Bernard questions if he will ever be treated with the same respect others in his class get by people in lower classes. Bernard is unlike Mustapha Mond, he only wonders why he is treated unfairly he never goes out of his way to figure out why he is not treated fairly. As Bernard fears being alienated by society he is never is to fulfil his

In the Brave New World they never had seen an older person, everyone they had there was young and healthy. Bernard is an Alpha, he is exactly ¾ inches shorter than everyone else. He is different and everyone makes fun of him, He also isn’t very handsome like he is supposed to be. There also was a girl that had that Bernard thought was very strange. He kept staring at her “black eyebrows of hers… that meet above the noes (Huxley 80) . He didn’t like the way that she looked because of this. These are all some of the people and things that the Brave New

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

Often individuals choose to conform to society, rather than pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than create a new one. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, this conflict is explored. Huxley starts the story by introducing Bernard Marx, the protagonist of the story, who is unhappy with himself, because of the way he interacts with other members of society. As the story progresses, the author suggests that, like soma, individuals can be kept content with giving them small pleasure over short periods of time. Thus, it is suggested in the book that if individuals would conform to their society’s norms, their lives would become much

The futuristic society that Huxley imagines revolves around class. Its these class issues that cause most of novel’s, A Brave New World, internal conflicts. I will be looking at this novel trough the Marxist Lens. Humans are categorized into different castes, for their birth it is determined what they would be and what they can achieve when they go out invoiced. The classes are forced to be able to be distinguished as they are dressed per their class, “Alpha children wear grey …Gammas and Deltas… all wear green, … Delta children wear Khaki.” (Huxley, 27). We also learn later in the novel that Beta wear maroon and Epsilons wear Black. The different classes are taught through hypnopaedia that they are good at their place, “I’m really awfully glad I’m Beta, because I don’t work so hard” (Huxley, 27), this prevents the proletariat from rebelling against the aristocrats. The reason this system is in place because the elite were concerned that opportunities were given to those who were less influential. Therefore, the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon embryos are poisoned. This results in them being not as intelligent as the Alphas, and Betas. Which means that the proletariats are there to severe and they can’t even change that because they like where they are in society.

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, people in the book show lack of emotion,feelings,interest or concern especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal wishing we had lack of apathy, my prediction is that people will no longer have strong emotions about anything important.They will become apathetic about most issues.We are convinced that one individual doesn’t matter. We can’t really make a difference in anything we believe in. That’s one of the reasons why people have started to lose interest in many aspects of their lives because they can’t do anything to change that. However,this only applies to a certain part of the population. To be honest in my opinion I personally think most of our generation thanks to social media

Aldous Huxley is the author of Brave New World and several different literary works. He was born into an aristocratic family in an English county called Surrey in 1894. Huxley probably received the best education a young writer could’ve gotten in England, attending Oxford University. In 1963, he died at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California.

The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932 is known for its social satire, utopian values, and unusual standpoints on stereotypical gender roles. In this time where futuristic technology has completely taken over, and men and women are given the same opportunities for everything, “the genders appear equal within the social order; both men and women work at the same jobs, have equal choice in sexual partners, and participate in the same leisure pursuits” (March 53). Huxley makes for a rather interesting feminist; “he was not only concerned about making women equal to men, he was also deeply concerned with the effects of technology and globalization on the quality of life for both genders” (Douglas-McMahon 21). However, there are many different sections of his novel that prove he was unable to fully rid of gender roles because of the time period in which he lived. Many of the stereotypical gender roles discussed in this book are also multiplied or switched rather than abolished. In his attempt to rid of stereotypical gender roles, Huxley manages to revolutionize, make fun of, and reconstruct them all in one breath.

We see by towards the end of the book that Bernard exploits John only for the fame and attention he receives, meaning that he has not learned to resist power, but only played it to his advantage. Because of the savage, Bernard now wants to embrace the society and pleads for another chance to not be sent to Iceland (Huxley 226); despite previously yearning to be alone or amongst people who understood him (Huxley 90). Consequently, Bernard was no longer upset with the imposing power structures because they existed to benefit him. I see myself most in Bernard out of all the characters in Brave New World. Similar to him, I despise it when the situation is unfair to me, but if I am not the one being inconvenienced, I find it not worth it to resist power. When I first started driving, I didn’t appreciate how my parent’s wanted to keep tabs on everywhere I went. It annoyed me that they expected me to text them my location whenever I drove anywhere and slowly I began to resist by just updating them less and less. I know this isn’t a dramatic act of teenage rebellion, but it’s my way of resisting even on a small

In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, a world culture universally partitioned by numerous distinct manufactured social castes is depicted. Bernard Marx is an individual belonging to the highest of said castes. That being established, however, Bernard is first met upon the self-discovered notion that he is a freak in relation to other fellow Alpha-Pluses. His apprehensive disgust is discovered in the Alpha Plus changing room when he observes Henry Foster and the Assistant Predestinator discussing Lenina Crowne as if she were a mere sexual object, and it is remarked, “Bernard hated them, hated them. But they were two, they were large, they were strong” (Huxley, 47). This glimpse into Bernard’s mind illustrates that though he

First of all, it is obvious that Bernard does not fit into the society he lives in. Throughout the novel, Bernard is shown different from the other Alphas. He possesses low self-esteem because he is not able to engage with females as easily as the other Alphas can, especially in a society where, “everyone belongs to everyone else.” Bernard’s alienation is a result of mockery from others and his self-pity. His physical disabilities take a toll on him and his insecurities are overtly seen. His self-pity and insecurities are handled by him abstaining from soma and dealing with the emotions he feels. Bernard’s disabilities have a direct effect on his personality. “Too little bone and brawn had isolated Bernard from his fellow men, and the sense of this apartness, being, by all the current standards, a mental

What if one doesn’t see the need to be happy all day, every day? Do they overtly defy society, and risk their reputation? Or do they try to hide their thoughts, and try to be a part of this community, simply so they don’t feel so alone? Such is the dilemma of Bernard Marx. While Bernard often feels alone and depressed because of his physical differences, his social exile gives him a different view of his society, and different views of what is right and what is wrong.

Bernard Marx participated in the solidarity service every two weeks even though they didn’t work for him. During one of the solidarity services when everyone is finally hearing the Greater Being, Bernard says he hears even though he doesn’t. “Feeling that it was time for him to do something Bernard also jumped up and shouted: ‘I hear him; He’s coming.’ But it wasn’t true” (84). Bernard does this because he felt obligated to not because it was true. He doesn’t want to seem like an outcast to his peers. Another example of following trends and what our peers believe in Brave New World is how Bernard thinks about relationships and feelings. He wanted to have a more intimate relationship than just having sex, he wanted to share feelings with someone. This, in Brave New World society, was considered wrong. The clones were not supposed to feel and they were only meant to have sex to fulfill

We are then introduced to Bernard Marx, who the reader comes to know as the main character for a portion of the book. The development of Bernard is shown through chapters 4 and 6 where the outside thought of Bernard conflicts with the strict regards of the Director. This begins the main development of the fall of the society in a utopia. Bernard’s outlandish thinking is caused by a mishap in his birth where his surrogate was assumed to be poisoned by alcohol, making him fat and short, something not seen in most alphas. It also altered his thought so that he is able to feel feelings that the others cannot.

On the contrary to Bernard Marx’s isolation is the case of Helmholtz Watson. Unlike Marx, Watson is viewed as being physically perfect and the embodiment of an Alpha Plus. He is favored among other members of the upper castes for his appearance and his well-rounded nature. Simply put, Waston is extremely popular among his peers and is welcomed by society. However, despite being surrounded by people who admire him Watson has a tendency to feel alone in the World State. The cause of Watson’s isolation is revealed on page 67. The passage states, “A mental excess had produced in Helmholtz Watson effects very similar to those which, in Bernard Marx, were the result of a physical defect. Too little bone and brawn had isolated Bernard from his fellow