Bernard Monologue In Brave New World

In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, Bernard Marx experiences various beliefs such as wanting the ability to feel deep emotion and self-desires, rejection drugs along with meaningless relationships with women. These mental emotions that Bernard experiences put him in a situation of emotional exile because it both alienates him from the rest of the alphas and enriched his experiences and thoughts the other alphas will never have. Bernard’s desire to want to be able to feel deep emotions and his own self-desires go against what all other alphas desire to have which puts Bernard in a state of exile among the other alphas. The alphas are the highest in the class system while representing themselves in the color gray. Alphas are designed to be “frightfully clever” and are said to “work much harder” than the others in the cast system leading them to become government workers. (page 27). Bernard does not have the same feeling and emotions that a “normal alpha” should have. It is said that Bernard's different beliefs are because of “alcohol that was put into his blood-surrogate” and that is the reason that his beliefs are so “stunted” (page

This is because they are forbidden to stay with one person because of the chance they might fall in love. Falling in love is exactly what Bernard seeks to do. Bernard acts out on this mission by describing both him and Lenina as “infants” that “went to bed to together instead of waiting like adults”(page 94).Bernard's meaning of the word "adult" is clearly very different from Lenina's and the rest of the alphas. In this pass, you can see the side of Bernard that has the idea that sex is supposed to bring two people closer together instead of it being something that you do when you're just bored. Sex in society today is an emotional experience as well as physical and even though no one in the New World State understands this concept, Bernard