Brave New World
...of Bernard Marx. Bernard Marx is a vital character in this novel, because he was an individual thinker and rejects the cultural beliefs in his society. Bernard is an outcast in society, because he is not the ideal Alpha male. He is often ridiculed because he is mal-formed and is small in size due to the alcohol in the blood surrogate. Although, Bernard is an outcast because he is deformed he wants so badly to fit in with the society's beliefs and ways of living, but is forced to face individuality.
Bernard is not physically fit to be the typical Alpha male. He is always in the shadow of these upper class alpha's where being big is valued and being different is ridiculed. The difference between Bernard as an Alpha and the typical Alpha males are vastly different, which sets up an opportunity to suggest that Bernard is an individual because he is rejected from society. He is not popular with the woman, and he only has one friend being Helmholtz Watson.
In this utopia being different is looked down upon, which is why Bernard pretends to be part of society, when in reality he views it underneath a different lens than the others. He tries to hide the fact that he is an individual thinker to be apart of society because he doesn't want to be different. For example, in Chapter 5 at Bernard's orgy party he sits next to "unibrow" Morgana Rothschild. "A good beginning for a Solidarity Service. Thought Bernard miserably, and foresaw for himself yet another failure to achieve atonement. If only he had given himself time to look around instead of scuttling for the nearest chair!" (Huxley, 79) Bernard was miserable because he wished he did not sit next to her, because she was different and had a big unibrow. He had standards but instead of not doing anything, he followed the rules of hyptnopedia and remembered the phrase, "everybody belongs to everyone else." In this...
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