The Isolation Of Social Class In Brave New World By Bernard Marx

This novel begins by going back and forth between meeting characters and challenging the reader to understand the setting. Readers are introduced to a woman named Lenina who has only been seeing one man for many months, so she must venture out and experience the known epigrammatic expression “everyone belongs to everyone else” (multiple sources in the book) She decides to join a fellow alpha plus on his visit to a savage reservation. The gentleman's name was Bernard Marx, A troubled man who never really knew how to fit into the “civilized” world. When Bernard goes to get his paperwork signed; to leave for the reservation, readers find out that The Director had lost the women he traveled to New Mexico with many years before, and hasn't seen her since.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, human beings have been engineered and conditioned to have detailed traits and castes in society; however, the birthing methods of the world state seem virtually full proof, some characters in the novel deviate from this standard. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson both alpha plus males; share a dislike for the world state. Bernard abhors it because of his physical defect, Helmholtz because of his psychological surplus.

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.

Sex, Drugs to get you high, no responsibilities seems like a dream to most right? Well not for Bernard Marx. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley tells of a control society in the year 2540 C.E where every person has their role in society assient to them at birth. Everything is control by science with the help of man name Mustapha Mond one of the top 10 controllers. Brave New World shows how life without thinking is not life at all those who can actually think for themself are not happy with their lives. "Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and

Society is challenged once Bernard finds John. John was a boy who, Bernard found on a "Savage Reservation" in New Mexico. John's mother (oh yeah mother is another word that has lost its usefulness in society except when describing animal or savages) had gone to the reservation with the Director of Hatcheries in London, Bernard's boss, and had acidently ended up pregnant. She was unable to have the pregnancy aborted, as was normal practice if one ended up pregnant, so she was forced to give birth to John. Society considers this disgusting, so she was quite ashamed of this. Bernard saw an opportunity, the director had threatened to send him to Iceland, because of Marx's unorthodox ideas, so Bernard decided to embarrass the Director. Inadvertantly Marx added a whole new element to the society in London.

In the totalitarian country of London, the people are not subjected to war, hate, poverty, disease and suffering. There is an abundance of wealth, leisure and pleasures, but with utopia comes elimination of freedom and orthodox values. The people in the society are created in factories, then put into a strict 5 class hierarchy. To take the edge off of the harshness of reality, they take a synthetic drug called Soma and drift into blissful ignorance. When a savage named John—who becomes isolated from his indian tribe in New Mexico—comes to live in utopia London, he is forced to learn the strange, untraditional customs of the civilization. In the end, he has to choose between either assimilation or death. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John the Savage is both alienated from his community and emotionally enriched after being isolated from his home tribe.

Bernard Marx is a very significant character in the novel Brave New World because unlike the rest of the society who are happy and abide to the rules, Bernard is an individual. This may be due to the fact that Bernard often does not take soma like the rest of the society. Soma is a drug takes away all individuality and emotion, as well as make the individual more part of the docile society.

Why does Marx 's social theory place so much emphasis on class conflict and the economic aspects of society?

Through their physical and mental characteristics, readers are able to identify the alienation that Bernard Marx and John the Savage experience and how it affects their life in a society of different social class levels. One of the major characters, Bernard Marx, is an Alpha who feels isolated in the arranged society due to his shorter height. It is mentioned near the beginning that it was possible he had alcohol infused in his blood during decantation, but it is later discovered that he feels really insecure about how others would treat him for it. This society is split into different caste levels, which is identified by different heights and colored clothes, so when Bernard tries to order the Delta flight attendants to bring the helicopter, it is apparent that he feels insecure about his height because he is nervous that the people he gave orders to will not listen to him because he is not the height

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