For example, just as the Director has finished discussing how the World State has eliminated âlovesickness,â? Bernard is shown to be himself lovesick, jealous, and angry.
He suffers from a sort of inferiority complex, due to his small height – physically, he resembles a person of the lower class more than an âalpha.â? While Bernard is not a âprotagonistâ? in the traditional sense of the term, he proves to be a good viewpoint character, because his motivations are clearly human. By the standards of the âBrave New World,â? Marx is a dysfunctional person, his conditioning having obvious flaws. In this context, the people who inhabit Brave New World jump off of the page, each offering his or her own testimony to the inherent bizarreness of the scientifically-crafted lifestyles of this âbrave new world.â?Bernard Marx is perhaps the most compelling character throughout the first part of the book, his last name ironically being that of the founder of Communism. In many ways, Brave New World is almost a story of survival – not survival as opposed to the natural world, but survival of the human race, of individuals trying to live in a world where the individual spirit is considered nonexistent. Against this harsh setting, Huxley experiments with various ideas and philosophies, using an eclectic cast of characters to move his ideas from the printed page to the reader by placing them in a human, or semi- human, context. It is a story of a dystopia, of a cold scientific world order and the people who inhabit it.
Brave New World, by acclaimed author Aldous Huxley, is not so much a novel about individuals as it is about a society as a whole.
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