Brave New World highlights the issue of an inner and outer self, even though only a few characters can actually see this. Bernard is one of the only ones to be not okay with how life in the new world is going. He is having conflict but has a hard time exposing his distaste to the socitey; when his inside is so much like their outside, imprinted with lessons of the controlling world they live in.
Bernard is an example of a character who seems to be the most human in the beginning of the book. While other characters seem less aware of the pseudo perfect world they live in, Bernard is one of the only one taking strokes against the current. Everyone around him looks like they are living a dream life because they fit in their class. Bernard feels left out because he is unlike others in his class. He feels his inferior looks separate him from the other Alpha Pluses. Many joke of him being given the wrong mix of injections and that is what made him different. Also, a drug called soma is used by many to create the feeling of happiness whenever their contentedness falls. Bernard isn't interested in this drug. Also the rest of society feels it is okay to sleep around and have orgies whenever, but Bernard doesn't. Bernard values connection between people and doesn't believe in sleeping around. the people enjoy this world because they are happy and can fufill their (sexual) desires whenever they please. Bernard feels very content fitting into his own society rather than someone else's perfect world. Bernard shows the
At times though, Bernard is frustrated he can't fit in. He wants to be someone who isn't singled out because he isn't normal. When Bernard is jutted into fame after he returns from the Reservation with the salvage, Bernard begins to conform more with the world he so vehemently disliked before. He began breaking the beliefs he used to stand for. He participated in what society labelled as okay, which included sex and soma.
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