Character Analysis of Bernard Marx

     Bernard Marx is the most important character in the first part of the book from my personal opinion. The author of Brave New World Aldous Huxley doesn’t describe him much physically in detail; just that he is thin and very small. Bernard is an Alpha, who are supposed to be bigger than the normal size. Bernard looks like a Gamma person. So, he is an outsider, because he doesn’t feel so confident as the other people, he’s never asked for dates, and the lower castes don’t sometimes obey him as they should. Lower castes at times look at him as they would look at everyone else even though he is an alpha and should be seen on a higher pedestal compared to everyone else. Everyone thinks that Bernard is an odd person. Some even said that, when he was still bottled (when he was a baby), someone accidentally poured alcohol in his blood surrogate. This is why some people believe that he is the way he is, short, strange, and different. People avoid him because of his reputation to be what they see him as being distasteful. Bernard is also a sensitive person, which is not common. He gets angry when he hears people talking down on others, like when Henry referred to Lenina as a piece of meat. Bernard is also very insecure, which is also uncommon in this world. He is insecure because he is vertically challenged unlike the other alphas who are tall. Bernard likes to be alone and think. One of Bernard's only friends is Hemholtz Watson. They are friends because they both are viewed as outcasts in society, they are deemed as different. Bernard gets very uncomfortable around girls and is shy and awkward. Although he is shy he works up the courage to ask Lenina to the savage reservation. When he returns from the reservation, he is a changed alpha. Bernard starts to become more social, participating in social events. He starts going out with tons of women because he is famous for bringing in the savage to their society.