In a time when freedom isn’t an option and opinions didn’t exist, being an individual was a extensive challenge for any member of the World State. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, independence is never experienced, this is made clear through the characters Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John the Savage. Freedom is understood in many ways, these three characters all struggle for liberty, each of them want to feel what they believe to be individualistic, despite all wanting to be free in different senses. In a so called “perfect world,” each human is given the life they’re expected to live, which undeniably follows with no outlook or perspective. The three subjects that struggle with this lifestyle, are the same people that genuinely need individuality to feel complete.
Bernard, is a prime example of a person that needs to be an individual to feel socially accepted. The expectations he feels to fit into …show more content…
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. Along with not fitting in and struggling to be his own person, Bernard has a lot of emotion towards the ways of the World State and the life he’s being forced to live. On top of all these feelings, Bernard has no way to express them, causing him to wonder what may lie got him
Bernard, is a prime example of a person that needs to be an individual to feel socially accepted. The expectations he feels to fit into …show more content…
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. Along with not fitting in and struggling to be his own person, Bernard has a lot of emotion towards the ways of the World State and the life he’s being forced to live. On top of all these feelings, Bernard has no way to express them, causing him to wonder what may lie got him