Unorthodox In Brave New World

The British author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, said: “’if one's different, one's bound to be lonely’” (Huxley). In Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World, there are multiple unorthodox characters, but Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and Mustapha Mond are the most unorthodox characters throughout the book. Bernard Marx proves that he is unorthodox multiple times throughout the book. The physical height of Marx is a clear indication that he is unorthodox. Although Bernard Marx has the status of Alpha-Plus, he is the height of a Gamma. People would even discuss what happened to Bernard: “For whatever the cause (and the current gossip about the alcohol in his blood-surrogate may very likely—for accidents will happen—have been true)” (Huxley). The physical height of Bernard Marx and the people, who talk behind Bernard’s back about his height, make Marx feel like and individual and unorthodox. Also, Bernard is unorthodox because he feels individualized from everybody else in the World State. Since Bernard is has a physical disability with his shortness, he is often rejected by girls in the World State. The makes
Mustapha reveals to Helmholtz: “‘all the people who aren’t satisfied with orthodoxy, who’ve got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who’s any one, I almost envy you, Mr. Watson” (Huxley 227). Mond is envy of Helmholtz because he almost wants to be on an island with unorthodox people like himself. The only reason he stayed back was because he had a choice to become the World State Controller. Mustapha was found to be unorthodox because he was doing some bad science: “’I started doing a bit of cooking on my own. Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking. A bit of real science, in fact’” (Huxley 226). Mustapha Mond was found doing unorthodox cooking and was then giving the choice of the island or being a World State