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Essay / Journal one - 622
To begin with, let me say that Bernard Marx is a very interesting character who possesses unique qualities which in dystopia are marked as an outcast in Aldous Huxley's book, The Best Worlds. He undergoes drastic changes from start to finish but plays a central role in the book. He is extremely different from the others because he dreams of having everything that the World State does not want. Bernard Marx considers himself an outcast due to his short stature, lack of confidence in his words, and fear of being rejected by all women. he wants but cannot have. In Brave New World, stature represents great superiority over others and Bernard got the bad side and now lives with shame and humiliation. In Chapter 4, Huxley describes: “Bernard's physique was little better than that of an average Gamma. He was eight centimeters shorter than the standard Alpha size and slender in proportion. Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical condition. inadequacy… Every time he found himself looking level, rather than down, towards ...