The proletariat would likely switch places with the bourgeoisie if a revolution inspired by Marx had been completely successful. An additional aspect of Marx’ style is his use of lists. In many of his works, including but not exclusively, The Communist Manifesto and “Theses on Feuerbach,” he will go as far as to number his points. In The Communist Manifesto Marx lists changes that he believes are necessary; for example, “a heavy progressive … tax” and “free education” (Communist Manifesto 27). This conveys that Marx is writing to a more common person, which is necessary for him to influence their actions.…
xUnorthodox Characters of Brave New World Unorthodoxy in the World State is really any form of individuality, so many of the upper caste characters of Brave New World are unorthodox on some level. A few of them stand out as fundamentally unorthodox. Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and Mustapha Mond are all unorthodox, but they vary in how and why they are unorthodox. Bernard Marx is a strongly unorthodox character, mainly because of his physical appearance; He is shorter than the other Alphas, and they find him strange.…
Everyone looks the same except Bernard. Bernard is kind of like an outcast in his own society as to John in london. There is thing called…
Because individuals are bound to stay in a community, it prevents them from exploring themselves as individuals and expanding on their identities. Aldous Huxley develops the idea that adversity allows individuals to expand their perceptions of their identities using hardships which lead to isolation and ultimately freedom of thought. We can best see this idea throughout the character development of Bernard Marx . Despite the fact that hardships are often seen as a negative aspect and are avoided to attract happiness and joy, it is critical to have these experiences as a human in shaping their identities because these experiences allow them to make decisions in the future. Hardships and suffering allow individuals to set narratives through emotions which then shape their identity.…
Bernard Marx is attempting to make sense of why he detests such large numbers of things, and why he is viewed as unique in relation to the next Alpha. For instance, when Bernard was attempting to find out why he is who he is, he discovers the Director, Thomas, who answers his inquiry by saying "When you were by and large hereditarily built, an excess of liquor was put into your container when you were still a fetus" (Huxley 58). This clarifies why Bernard was unique in relation to his caste. Equally important, Grendel additionally attempts to figure out why he is who he is, and his motivations in life. Case in point, when Grendel seeks the Dragon for answers, the winged serpent said "My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it" (Gardner 74).…
YeJoon Kang HST 103_06 Professor Borbonus 10 February 2015 Karl Marx & Samuel Smiles During the time of Industrialization, Europe and the United States were the leading exporters in the global markets. It was most difficult for the working class when there was an abundant amount of supplies, also known as surplus of products once in demand. One of many reasons they were suffering was because; “As more and more factories were built to produce the same commodity…competitors slashed prices by slashing wages” (Marks 136). Many similar problems were practiced in the time.…
forcing him to resign. Bernard’s dynamic characteristic is that he a free thinker, which in turn, creates his free will. Bernard goes on a trip to New Mexico with Lenina, and when he gets there, he meets John, who isn’t accustomed to the new world, but also has ideas of his own. John influences Bernard’s way of thinking, and he becomes a it like John, and not being true to himself. Bernard starts to become more social and not as independent as he once was.…
In this piece, Marx discusses the concept of “Estranged Labour”, about which he goes into great detail. He begins by stating that the current political economy takes the worker from the level of a human, to that of a commodity. He describes this as “the most wretched of commodities”, as the commodification of the worker is always done in contrast to success of the land owner. This creates two classes, the property owners and the propertyless workers, with a stark distinction between the two. The political economy that creates this distinction is run by greed, which is fueled by competition.…
Bernard was the only individual in the novel who felt as though he never belonged. Always isolated , felt that there was more to life that sex and soma. Bernard actually wanted to have an emotional relationship with Lenina which was unorthodox in this type of society because emotions meant weakness, and the government controller could never allow that. This relates back to Marxist theory of conscious awareness. If one individual begins to act different from the norm, that individual could have an influence on others, thus meaning challenging the status quo in Brave New World.…
Bernard represents a human like the ones today, with a wide range of emotions. But, he is the only one who feels these emotions. The boys on pages 44-45 and Lenina Crowne are prime examples of the people the state wants. This exiles Bernard because he feels more than they do. This isolation and detachment evokes negative emotions, but ultimately gives Bernard a better life.…
Bernard Marx (a character from Brave New World) is the social outcast of the society who is constantly struggling to fit in. "Alcohol having been put into that poor chap's blood-surrogate must be true. " Touched his brain, I suppose". "To justify for Bernard's weirdness most of the people from the society believe that Bernard had some alcohol when he was an embryo and so that's why he's so weird. Bernard doesn't participate in a lot of sexual activities, he doesn't consume Soma and he spends a lot of time in private.…
In a conversation between Bernard and Lenina you can sense Bernard is uneasy and distressed about trying to be like everyone else, as well as trying to fit in where he clearly doesn’t, he says, “Everybody’s happy nowadays. We begin giving children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everyone else’s way” (Huxley 81). Bernard’s low confidence and self-esteem is resulting in rejection from the Alpha- class and is evidently leaning him to believe he is stuck in society where he will never truly belong and live as the individual he so desperately wants to be.…
This shows that discrimination is at a much deeper level than just class based, and is human nature. In Gattaca, this is shown through the job selection process by which everyone is DNA tested to ensure that only the “valids” get the more sophisticated jobs. However where in Gattaca the discrimination could be seen as justified, (as you want the best possible person for the job) in Brave New World it is completely unjustified as Bernard is no different from the others besides his height, “Bernard's physique was hardly better than that of the average Gamma. He stood eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in…
Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber are three fundamental figureheads in the foundation of sociology who asserted that our lifestyles are products of the society in which we live. They all lived in a period of great social change, that of the Industrial Revolution, and based their writings and musings upon what they observed happening around them and extrapolated as to the condition of the future. One foundational product of contemporary societies, that truly came into existence at the time during which they were writing, would be the economy and economic life. Looking at it on a macro level perspective, it is one of the aspects of the social superstructure. It is a social institution by itself, but it also shares a give and take relationship with other institutions in society and the superstructure such as education, ethics, law, religion, etc.…
As Bernard is giving the Deltas and Gammas an order, he stops. Looking at the Gamma and “Bernard’s physique was hardly better than that of the average Gamma. His self –consciousness was acute and distressing” (Huxley 64). This is important because Bernard, being an Alpha, is supposed to be beautiful, and he almost looks like a Gamma, which is one of the lower class citizens. He feels that he is different.…