Brave New World By Helmoltz Watson And John The Savage

Bernard was an outcast in the beginning of the book. He is flawed in a “flawless” world. “Well…’ said Bernard, and hesitated. No, he really couldn’t deny it. ‘Why shouldn’t I be”, this quote proves that Bernard is an outcast because he hesitated. (Huxley, 184) Living in the World State it is uncommon to hesitate. Bernard did not fit into the standards of the World State and everyone knew it. Bernard did not like to participate in orgies, group activities, and he looked different from the other citizens, “‘He is so ugly!’ said Fanny. ‘But I rather like his looks.’ ‘And then so small.’ Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste.” (Huxley, 41) The above quote proves that Bernard was an outcast because he looked different from the others. Bernard is just like every human being he wants to fit in with everyone else.

Bernard is introduced as a man that does not fit into society and is different from everyone else in the “Social Society”. Throughout the novel he changes though, he becomes self-centered and views himself as a superior to others. The main event that lead up to this change is his encounter with the “Savages”, which allowed him to secure his job and further his career.

The book New Found Land was written by Allan Wolf in 2004, Allan used striking poetic features and fictional characters to recreate Lewis and Clark 's expedition across the continent. There mission, find the fabled Northwest passage to the pacific ocean, this group of courageous Americans may never come back. Through his use of Historical and fictional characters, Wolf was able to showcase the different viewpoints of Lewis and Clark 's crew. One of the key characters that led the expedition to success was Meriwether Lewis. I chose to look up his last name due to the fact that his last name is the more well known than his first name. Lewis is the english form of the french name Louis, this form was also derived from the german name Ludwig

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you 've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

Bernard was the main focus of the story until John arrived into the story. Bernard is an outcast as well, he had an issue when in the decanting process and as a result he was smaller than most of the alphas. Bernard likes to push the limits of society and to a certain extent do what he wants. “Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being; alone even in Morgana’s embrace- much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before” (86). Bernard is an isolated individual and this proves it, however he is used to being alone so he has become used to it.

One major reason in which he called into this category is because no matter how unhappy he is or opposed against society, he is not one to stand up for himself or openly go against the world. Towards the end of the novel for example, Bernard is brought under tons of pressure where he could possibly be sent away forever, but he then immediately points fingers at John and Helmholtz for his own actions, even though they were his only remaining friends

Rome is known for its’ empire (The Roman Empire). Rome started out small and ended up becoming this huge and undefeatable force of nature. Rome received their success by either attacking other nearby towns/neighbors or granting them treaties or citizenships. E. Badien, the author who created an article called, The Organization Of Italy, explains how Rome organized Italy, and got their neighboring cities and nations to join them and turn ancient Italy into a leading state of power. In Badien’s observations, he finds that granting citizenship and the Latin’s helped Rome to become powerful and assisting Italy to be more structured.

In the story, “Brave New World,” Bernard Marx changes throughout the story when he goes on a trip to a Savage Reservation in New Mexico with a Beta lady friend, Lenina Crowne. I feel he changes to look less of an outsider in his caste as an Alpha because of his short stature than other normal Alphas and being dissatisfied with the world. Bernard does not really change in a good way either. One change that happens is when he gains power over the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (D.H.C.) and Bernard becomes more superior. Secondly, his relationship with Helmholtz gets damaged and lastly, Bernard starts to give in to the society’s ways when he was not satisfied them in the first place.

The film Into The Wild tells a story of a young man, named Christopher McCandless, trying to break away from the path society and his parents have paved for him. Throughout the many months he spends on the road he meets many people who have a deep impact on him, even though he probably would not admit to that until the end. As a final test of the change in his mentality and confirmation of his independency from civilization and all the negative aspects it represents, Christopher makes his way to Alaska.

Bernard is one of the main characters in this book and he is contradicting how “everyone is happy.” Also, he talks about how he wants to be happy on his own terms, as an individual person. In the text, it states “But

Later, after the excursion, Bernard and Lenina return with John, a savage, and his mother, Linda, to expose the Director as their relative after his own expedition years prior. The Director resigns after being exposed, and John’s Shakespearean literacy and utter existence enthralls all of society. This chain of events has Bernard over the moon, and has, with his newfound sense of achievement, “now found himself, for the first time in his life, treated not merely normally, but as a person of outstanding importance” (156). In bearing such a spectacle to the unsuspecting public, Bernard has outdone himself by making his name shine in a society that otherwise condemns any sort of individual glamor. Unfortunately, Bernard then uses this relevance and comfortability to eradicate his enduring burdensome insecurities. He sinks into society and engages in mass sex and soma consumption, proving he did not wish to criticize the World State out of spite, but out of jealousy. With John as his scapegoat, Bernard could now afford to slip into the masses and perform adequately, now that he has a name for himself. Lastly, Bernard throws an extravaganza

When speaking with Lenina, he says, “Everybody’s happy nowadays.” We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else’s way. . . [T]hat it might be possible to be an adult all the time” ( Huxley 94). Although he has been conditioned to accept servitude, he is continuously searching and longing for freedom. Bernard’s desire for freedom continues throughout the novel. Later when he sees the freedom of the Savage, he begins to envy him because he wants the same freedom as the Savage that his society forbids. In this society, freedom is a menace to

Bernard is introduced as the antithesis of the “normal” World State citizen in that not only does he not take soma he also refuses to have sex with Lenina. Bernard also is the only one to believe that easy sex is childish behaviour. Huxley uses Bernard as a character the reader can connect and vocalise with about the World State. But as the story continues Bernard’s identity is brought into question. It appears that Bernard puts excelling socially above defining his identity.

One of Brave New World’s profound characters is Bernard Marx. Bernard is an Alpha male who people rumor to have alcohol in his blood, which portrays him as an outsider to the caste system. His shortness in height is abnormal to any Alpha. As an Alpha-plus, he is one of the highest rankings out of most of his fellow companions. While everyone and everything in society is perfect, Bernard is not. He may have flaws, but that doesn't stop him from being clever and intelligent. When Bernard takes Lenina on a date, all she can think is that he is “odd, odd, odd,” (Huxley 87). Throughout the novel, all of the characters must attend the Solidarity Service including Bernard. During the service, everyone is elating where as Bernard is not having the best of times. Although he participates in the service, he does not participate whole-heartedly. Similar to everyone else, he involves himself in the communion and afterwards takes a dose of soma. From the beginning to the end of the service, though, his emotions made no change whatsoever. “He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the revive began-more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety,” (Huxley 86). Unlike everyone else living in the World State, Bernard does not enjoy indulging in soma and sporadic, sexual relationships. He would much rather have a monogamous relationship with one girl and get to know her on a more personal level, than sleep with someone knew every night. Although Bernard

The chapter “The Age of Total War” in Eric Hobsbawm’s novel “The Age of Extremes” is broken into four sections in order to explore the time period of 1914-1945. This essay will explore the subjects and processes that are present in this chapter of Hobsbawm’s (1994) novel in a limited scope. The processes that will be discussed are how the zero sum game led to the total war of World War one; the desire for revanchism led to the existence of World War Two, the cost of World War Two led to the economic crisis and how the disaster these events caused resulted in the desensitization of human beings. Throughout this chapter, Hobsbawm (1994) frequently expresses a fear for human kind in both a literal and metaphoric sense arguing that people of