How Does Bernard Contribute To A Utopian Society

Utopia is defined as an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect, no discourse, no aging like fine wine, new set of morals to live by--pure bliss. For a Utopia however, it’s all or nothing. One has to be willing to accept all that comes with this ideal perfection, which means that there will be sacrifices made to bring up a higher component in the Utopian society. In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” two characters come to the realization that the sacrifices made for their World State society to revolve, is not worth the price at stake: their self identity, but they still face the struggle of wanting to belong in the utopian community. The people of the World State are divided into different castes, each caste revolves
Although Bernard has these individual thoughts and opinions on social circumstances, he doesn’t fully seem to comprehend what consequences come with wanting an individual purpose. The first indication of this is when Bernard is threatened by the D.H.C to be sent to Iceland, “The Director’s threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life. But that, as he now realized, was because he had not taken the threats quite seriously…” (Huxley 69). During this first quarrel between the D.H.C and Bernard I realized that as much as Bernard wanted something different from his society, he could not swallow the repercussions that came with that mindset. Another event that proved to me that Bernard would not be able to sacrifice his want of being integrated into his society is when he brings home John and Linda, the savages from the reservation, even more so when through a chain of events John rejects Bernard in the end and refuses to be the main spectacle at an evening party. When Bernard faces the rejection from John, he shrinks back to the Bernard from the beginning of the book, diffident and forlorn, “Pierced by every word that was spoken, the tight balloon of Bernard’s happy
Both characters, even though coming from different ends of the Alpha spectrum, both want for themselves a greater purpose and reason of living within the World State, (Huxley 45-46). Bernard although knowledge that he is an individual, doesn’t know how to handle the weight it bears and throughout the progression of the story realizes that he would rather sacrifice his individuality than leave the social stability of the World State. Whereas Helmholtz is adamant that he can use his words to be a much more powerful influencer than a brainwasher, and is ready to take on the individual purpose and self identity that he has forged for