Character Analysis Of Bernard Marx From 'Brave New World'

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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. All of these thing put together makes Bernard an outcast who is fighting the society because he goes against the norms of the society and he's constantly getting in trouble for not fitting

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