Brave New World Essay

   In Brave New World, Bernard Marx can be a good example of the character who conforms outwardly while questioning inwardly. The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from him being an outcast, he is having problems by not dealing with himself from what he is doing, and he has his own mind and beliefs, but he suffers through it. The meaning of the work from these three information can relate to anyone that are going through to anyone in the real world.

    The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from him being an outcast. An example from him being an outcast would said, “To have dealings with members of the lower castes was always, for Bernard, a most distressing experience. For whatever the cause (and the current gossip about the alcohol in his blood-surrogate may very likely–for accidents will happen–have been true) Bernard's physique was hardly better than that of the average Gamma,” (Chapter 3). This quote explains Bernard is small for an Alpha. This makes it hard for him to deal with members of lower castes, who are as small as he is, but by design. This is quote is also like slavery. While he is an outcast this said, “This admirable committee man and best mixer had realized quite suddenly that sport, women, communal activities were only, so far as he was concerned, second bests. Really, and at the bottom, he was interested in something else. But in what? In what? That was the problem which Bernard had come to discuss with him,” (Chapter 3). This quote has given an example of how Bernard is different not because he is short and feels inadequate, but because he is a mental giant. He is successful in sports, sex, and community activities- all the activities in which Bernard feels he is a failure. A good quote would say, "Talking about her as though she were a bit of meat." Bernard ground his teeth. "Have her here, have her there." Like mutton. Degrading her to so much mutton. She said she'd think it over, she said she'd give me an answer this week. Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford." He would have liked to go up to them and hit them in the face—hard, again and again,” (Chapter 3). This quote explains that Bernard was angry and annoyed about Foster talking so much about identity because he feels that Lenina is being defined solely by her body as "meat." The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from him being an outcast is because he is always keeping his thoughts to himself instead of talking about it to other people.

    The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from he is having problems by not dealing with himself from what he is doing. “She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement–for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied,” (Chapter 3). This quote explains about how Bernard the experience of true rapture that his partners seem to feel. Huxley underlines that this rapture is not the same as excitement, because if you're excited, you're still not satisfied. This feeling is satisfying. Bernard is miserable that he has not achieved it, and thinks the failure must have been his own fault. “Shaking his head, "I actually dream about it sometimes,” (Chapter 6). He is acting different because he is starting to have dreams about Lenina in this quote, but never finds her which means that even he has more individual feelings than the system thinks is good for you. “The group was now complete, the solidarity circle perfect and without flaw. Man, woman, man, in a ring of endless alternation round the table. Twelve of them ready to be made one, waiting to come together, to be fused, to lose their twelve separate identities in a larger being.” This quote explains that Bernard is with a group people that are taking soma, but Bernard doesn’t care about soma. The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from he is having problems by not dealing with himself from what he is doing because Bernard is trying very hard not to be a part of the World State, but cannot help but participate in some of its practices.

    The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from he has his own mind and beliefs, but he suffers through it. “He took leave of his friend and, hailing a taxi on the roof told the man to fly to the Fordson Community Singery. The machine rose a couple of hundred metres, then headed eastwards, and as it turned, there before Bernard's eyes, gigantically beautiful, was the Singery,” (Chapter 5).  This explains that Bernard fakes his feelings of “wonderfulness” to please the people at the Fordson Community Singery. Bernard is not conformed with his world, but is unsure of how to battle it out just like many of us human beings want to be a part of society, but do not want to be dragged in to peer pressure. The tension between the outward conformity and inward questioning contributes from he has his own mind and beliefs, but he suffers through it because Bernard is one of us, confused and fighting.

   The meaning of the work from these three information can relate to anyone that are going through to anyone in the real world. The information can be find from Bernard is always keeping his thoughts to himself instead of talking about it to other people, trying very hard not to be a part of the World State, but cannot help but participate in some of its practices, and has his own mind and beliefs, but he suffers through it because Bernard is one of us, confused and fighting.