SPHS - Sonnichsen
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
The character Bernard is portrayed as the counter-culteral person in the novel. At birth he was seperated from the others by a mistake during the birth process, which continues to seperate him from society because of his physical appearance. From living alone and not being a major part in his society, Bernard doesn't follow the "normal" beliefs that society dawns on everyone. He is not subjected to happy pills, or sex hormone gum, or even sex. They say that he spends time alone just thinking. He is very intelligent, and not simple minded like the majority of the population. Bernard sees things differently from everyone else; when he and Lenina are outside on the roof, he looks at the beauty of nature and just soaks it in, while Lenina says is a nice day for obstacle golf. Completely different thought processes. <br> In the novel, Brave New World, Bernard is the counter-cultural person, he is intelligent, he is independent, and he thinks differently from everyone else. If you did not get all this by the way he talks and acts around other people, Huxley made it a physical seperation from sociey as well.