To have power in the World Society, the World Controllers have separated their societies into castes so that they have an easier way of controlling their people. Everyone is conditioned to love their caste, but Bernard questions his quality of life in the system. Bernard has a conversation with his friend Helmholtz, and mentions to him, “I am I, and I wish I wasn’t” (64). Bernard looks different among others in his caste and therefore feels like an outsider. Bernard questions his position in the caste system which also threatens the power that the Controllers have over him, as a result he is threatened to be sent to an island. Helmholtz is another character in Brave New World who questions his quality of life in the caste system and the power that the system has over him. Helmholtz feels like an outsider much like Bernard does. Helmholtz does not have a physical deformity but he has a mental one; he is far more intelligent than anyone in his caste, Alpha-plus. It is mentioned in the novel: “A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.”(63) Just like Bernard, Helmholtz has a deformity that makes him question the caste system which threatens its power and shows proof of how both characters criticize the quality of their lives in respect to the relation of power and
To have power in the World Society, the World Controllers have separated their societies into castes so that they have an easier way of controlling their people. Everyone is conditioned to love their caste, but Bernard questions his quality of life in the system. Bernard has a conversation with his friend Helmholtz, and mentions to him, “I am I, and I wish I wasn’t” (64). Bernard looks different among others in his caste and therefore feels like an outsider. Bernard questions his position in the caste system which also threatens the power that the Controllers have over him, as a result he is threatened to be sent to an island. Helmholtz is another character in Brave New World who questions his quality of life in the caste system and the power that the system has over him. Helmholtz feels like an outsider much like Bernard does. Helmholtz does not have a physical deformity but he has a mental one; he is far more intelligent than anyone in his caste, Alpha-plus. It is mentioned in the novel: “A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.”(63) Just like Bernard, Helmholtz has a deformity that makes him question the caste system which threatens its power and shows proof of how both characters criticize the quality of their lives in respect to the relation of power and