There are four peculiar characters that have major roles within Brave New World. Each character has a unique personality and different views on the new world in the novel. For instance, they are either flat or round characters, complex and not complex, and have different functions within the novel. Lenina Crown, Bernard Marx, John, and Mustapha Mond are crucial characters that make up Brave New World. Lenina Crowne comes out to be a flat character. Even though she goes through many different situations, especially with Bernard and John, she does not change for better or for worse. However, she is a believable character. Lenina is remembered as the woman who goes after the men who are describe as queer and an outcast of society. She tries her …show more content…
Unlike Lenina Crowne, Bernard is a round character. However, instead of changing for the better, he actually changes for the worse. At first, Bernard is an outcast from society and follows his own beliefs, even though he does not act on it. Bernard then shares his thoughts with others. Unfortunately, later on, when Bernard finally gets respect, he conforms to society. He starts bragging about his women, fake friends, and fame. In the end, he is excluded from society once again. He does not stand up for his beliefs nor friends. What makes Bernard a believable characters is because of his alcohol dose in his body. It is constantly reminded throughout the novel. He is revealed early in the beginning like Lenina as a psychologist. Bernard Marx is complex by the judgment of society and is an Alpha Plus. He cares about what others think of him and it corrupts him. Thus, it makes him complex and hard to understand his intentions, whether if they are good or bad. Others in the novel describe him as odd, shy and sweet. His appearance is also known as being unattractive, glum, slender in proportion and short. He plays a role in the novel by being the first man introduced as someone who is not conformed by society. A memorable quote from him is, “How is it that I can't- what would it be like if I could, if I were free- not enslaved by my conditioning (Huxley …show more content…
For example, he does not change his views nor rules when he is deeply persuaded by John to change them. Mustapha is a believable individual in the novel because he is the controller of the new world. He makes the rules and could break them. The controller is, revealed in the beginning when young students visit the factory and ask for the results of a experiment and interferes by answering their questions. However, he is not complex. He lays out his ideals plain and simple, for everything is does not have to be complicated. Mustapha Mond is the antagonist in Brave New World. He goes against the common ways and habits of today's world. Mustapha is describe as conventional, intimidating, and formal. He has red lips, a deep voice, black hair and a hooked nose. Mustapha is man who will get things done his own way, like Lenina. He will not allow any objections to his way of ruling the new world. A quote from Mustpaha that sets his overall character and belief is, “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't (Huxley
The outcome of what happened to Bernard forced him to see that mistakes were one reason a Utopian Society could not exist. The Character Bernard Marx is an example of human imperfection, not because he was referred to as deformed, but because the person who created him messed up. Individuals were decanted according to specification. Any deviation was evidently the result of some mistake, a mistake made by a human. These technological developments weren’t advanced enough to create such a perfect society. Bernard was an example of this undesired reality. He was deemed an outcast due to his imperfection. Being an outcast, however, allowed him to see the world differently. He was able to realize how everything was being manipulated and he was able to discern that it was wrong.
I will now compare Lenina Crowne to Julia. Lenina Crowne is a girl who would be described as voluptuous or the majority of the Utopian society in which she lives call her pneumatic.
...re different and attempts to either ridicule, exemplify, or ignore them. In the Brave New World, society aims to preserve the homologous nature of living. With strict rules, crowd mentality and community actives the Brave New World attempts to get rid of the individual. Hypnopedia messages such as "When the individual feels, the community reels," and "Everybody belongs to everyone else," the Brave New World attempts to diminish the value of individuality and seeks instead to promote the idea of society first. Bernard, Helmholtz, and John are the few individuals of the Brave New World. They differ from the rest of society, because they recognize their uniqueness and realize that they are apart from society. It is because of their self-realization of their individuality that they are condemned to be ostracized from society and to live outside the Brave New World.
In Aldous Huxley's novel, "Brave New World" he introduces a character named, Bernard Marx an alpha part of the upper higher class who does not quite fit in. Bernard is cursed by the surrounding rumors of something going wrong during his conditioning that he becomes bitter and isolates himself from those around him in the World State. Huxley's character experiences both alienation and enrichment to being exiled from a society that heavily relies on technology and forms of entertainment with little to no morals.
Bernard was born as an alpha, the highest caste. Unfortunately, he was born with multiple birth defects. Bernard was short and slightly disfigured, making him stick out compared to everyone else's genetic perfection. Because of this, Bernard was made fun of a lot by other people in the community making him feel lonely, even though he was born
Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, with no real way to tell the future and how society would be today. The novel is based around a dystopia, a society that is the opposite of an utopia which is a “perfect” society according to the definition. Today’s society is far from perfect by definition. Huxley’s dystopia was supposed to mimic an almost impossible future, but with how things have changed in the past 90 years that future might not be so far away.
In some ways, his situation with exile is more metaphorical than literal. As an Alpha-Plus, Bernard seems to be quite different in physique and size than the other Alpha males, as he is smaller than all the others, which makes him feel inferior and lesser of a man than everyone else. Bernard finds it difficult to fit in with the other Alpha-Pluses around him, who all seem to have more traditional physiques and sizes. Because everyone else is so similar to each other and manage to be checked off as “normal” members of society, Bernard feels so insecure with himself, which, in turn, causes him to lose his content with the World State. “ . . . the physical defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the consciousness of being separate . . . ” (Huxley 67) Bernard has always been made fun of for being so much smaller than the rest of the Alphas. All of this has made him feel so alone, and he feels like he has no one in his life. Society itself has exiled Bernard by teasing him for being different. He feels like he will never be up to the same extremely high standards as the rest of the Alpha-Pluses. Bernard has long tried to be accepted by the people in the World State, but he hasn’t really had any luck with that. Furthermore, Bernard, like his friend, Helmholtz Watson, feels like a single individual isolated from the rest of society due to particular
Bernard Marx is an intriguing character in the book Brave New World. At the beginning of the book, he is a very main character, but as the book goes on he is put more and more into the background of the story. The reason for this can be explained by the way his character changes as the book progresses. Aldous Huxley makes an interesting point by showing how a person can be changed by obtaining something he desires. It makes the readers wonder whether success would change them in the same way or if they would be able to maintain their character.
Alduos Huxley, in his science fiction novel Brave New World written in 1932, presents a horrifying view of a possible future in which comfort and happiness replace hard work and incentive as society's priorities. Mustapha Mond and John the Savage are the symbolic characters in the book with clashing views. Taking place in a London of the future, the people of Utopia mindlessly enjoy having no individuality. In Brave New World, Huxley's distortion of religion, human relationships and psychological training are very effective and contrast sharply with the literary realism found in the Savage Reservation. Huxley uses Brave New World to send out a message to the general public warning our society not to be so bent on the happiness and comfort that comes with scientific advancements.
Lenina Crowne is a perfect example of someone who was conditioned, but does not fit into the social norms of Brave New World. Furthermore, religion would only strengthen Lenina’s tendency to have one man for a long period of time. In the book, Lenina is known to have boyfriends, and this shows her self-conscious knowledge of having many sexual partners to be immoral. In Brave New World, Christianity is looked down upon as a defect, but with the reintroduction of religion billions of people would be saved by the saving grace of our God.
In Brave New World, Huxley introduces multiple characters and problems to explore both internal and external conflicts throughout the story. One character we see in depth is Bernard. An alpha in society, Bernard struggles with inner conflict that separates him from the rest of his peers. Unlike others he sees the world he lives in as flawed. He questions everything and as a result of this, feels isolated and different. He struggles with his inner feelings as others start to judge him. He has the option to go against the part of him that says to act like every other Alpha, or to go with the part of him that wants to stand up for what he believes to be morally right.
Within Brave New World social stability means everyone is identical and has a preset purpose to life. A tour guide at the Central London Hatchery And Conditioning Centre explains they”…predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as alphas or epsilons, as future sewage workers…” (Huxley 13) Bernard Marx was born by the same Bokanovsky process as everyone else. He is forced to live in a society where individuality is suppressed for stability by conformity. Marx knows he is unlike many others and tries to fit in. He is prevented to be his true self because he is already looked down on by the conditioned society and risk of exile. His anti-social beliefs include ideas of marriage, emotions and community events which are unmoral according to the rest of civilization.
In the utopian society Huxley creates, everything is artificial. The future of the world depends merely on a handful of directors, and everyone else is simply created as a pawn to maintain this futuristic economy. One of the ten world controllers in the "Brave New World" portrayed in the novel is Mustapha Mond. Mustapha is a driving force behind the utopian society that keeps everyone happy, yet empty inside at the same time. In fact, Mustahpa Mond has been interpreted to mean "the chosen one," for he is like a God to the people (McGiveron 29). People are created in laboratories such as the "Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre," where peo...
In his novel, women did not represent any authority in contrast with men. A “Brave New World” depicted women in a typical role in which men have a lot of women around them. In the Utopia that Huxley described, women are victims of discrimination because of their physicals appearance. It follows into the pattern of today’s society, like sexist stereotypes and women 's body image. Sexism in the novel is very visible. Men only valued women for their appearance, rather than for their intelligence. Huxley developed and gave more importance to male characters than to female characters. Female characters were undervalued by the author. Huxley changed many aspects of the female experience. Although Lenina did something as amazing as falling in love, it was not permitted in Utopia. The author should have developed Lenina as a stronger and more courageous
In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses character development to contrast the two different societies present in the novel.He shows the importance of morality, or an increase in wisdom in the character of humankind. The author contrasts a society full of static and flat characters and another society full of round characters. In order to show the importance of life experiences in changing the character of individuals in the society.