Along with his friend, Helmholtz Watson, the two don’t seem to truly fit anywhere in their society.
He is unusually small for his caste, but still has the intelligence of the elites. Brave New World in-depth ReviewĪt the beginning of Brave New World, we follow Bernard Marx, an “Alpha” who is discontented with his life in the World State.
Before they are even conceived, the citizens of the World State have already been placed into their stations in life. Some of the lower castes are ingrained with a hatred of books and nature to fit the aims of the society or are even made grossly unintelligent. People no longer have families, and human beings are created in a “hatchery”, where they are conditioned to fit into one of five social castes according to intellect and physical stature. People never grow old, are free to do whatever they please, and take a mind-numbing drug called ‘Soma’ whenever they’re feeling down. The majority of Brave New World takes place in the World State, a society in which all inhabitants live seemingly perfect lives. The only truly sane person in this novel is one who is deemed a “savage”, but he is able to see through the facade of this “brave new world”. While they lead what they believe to be rich lives free of suffering and strife, they are, in reality, deeply impoverished, surviving off the most primitive of human instincts. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New Worldtells a tale of a society that looks with wonder upon its own terrible practices.
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