![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He wants to know how the people of the reservation have lived without order, unaided, and so savagely. Although his conditioning holds him back and gives him a feeling of being uncomfortable, he still is very curious about the way of life there. When Benard reaches the reservation, he is like a child in a candy store. Giving him an ability to analyze himself, his options, his life, and his choices in general. I get this idea from a previous chapter where because of his lack physical features and abilities he gained “mental excess” making him smarter then the average Alpha. ![]() I feel as if this one aspect of his life has triggered him to question everything else. We notice that because of the very obvious difference in physical attributes Bernard has compared to other Alphas, it has made him mentally unstable. My suspicions were later confirmed by the threat of being transferred to Iceland and later we find the transfer actually went through on pg 100.Īs far as internal conflicts go, we’ve had small glimpses of the struggles that Bernard is currently going through. Why did he need to reassure Bernard about it?. It was all perfectly healthy and normal.” This made me wonder, if this was supposedly already known to the society. Benard notices a bit of sentiment in the directors tone but the director quickly cuts the story short as if to be ashamed and even reassures Bernard it was nothing on pg 95 “Don’t imagine, he said, that I’d had any indecorous relation with the girl. The director tells Benard a story about when he himself went into to reservation with a women he was “having” at the time. On pg 94, Benard enters the directors office to pick up his permit to go to the savage reservation. Reading on we find ourselves with another conflict With the D.H.C. If i were free – not enslaved by my conditioning.” He tries to explain to her that he wants to be free in his own way, not the superficial freedom that everyone else believes they have. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. “As though I were more me, if you see what I mean. I also found the on pages 90-91 in a conversation between Bernard and Lenina, Bernard explains to her about wanting to be free from the enslavement of his conditioning. This option is easier then to try and listen. I also noticed that when Lenina is over whelmed by what Bernard tries to tell her she simply takes her soma and zones out. Her conditioning does not allow her or anyone for that matter to be “attached” emotionally to anyone. He wishes to talk to her and take long walks, Lenina does not understand why Bernard would want to do all this and I believe its because of her conditioning. On page 89 in conversation between the two, we observe that Benard has deeper feeling for Lenina then just to “have her”. The first external conflict I came cross is between Bernard and Lenina. I found that in these chapters Bernard’s internal and external conflicts are a bit more evident. He has slowly made his way into the spotlight and has continued to show us the readers around the “Worlds State”. Bernard’s character has caught my attention as a reader since our first introduction to him even though he did not necessarily play a major role in the beginning of the story. I would like focus the attention to who I feel was is the main character or protagonist at this point, which is Bernard. I was definitely not expecting so much to happen in just a couple of chapters. In these few chapters there are so many turning points and major factors that help us better understand the characters in A Brave New World. ![]()
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