Topic B
Bernard is the obvious character who is involved in a struggle against his society. Bernard is victimized by being treated the same as everyone else, but because he is "abnormal" by society's standards, this has a negative effect on him. Everyone else in the society is happy to be treated the same, but Bernard is not. He resists the lack of individuality in society by attempting to have a relationship in a different way than what it is supposed to. In this society, relationships are supposed to be strictly sexual, but Bernard wants a real relationship that includes emotions. This is not successful because he is the only one who wants this. He cannot break the conditioning of the rest of the citizens of this society. They are all trained so well that no matter what he says or does he cannot convince even one person (Lenina) to try his radical idea of a relationship. After behaving in a way that was socially abnormal, Bernard is reprimanded by a person of authority. Even though he is threatened to be excluded from the society, Bernard is happy because even thought it was negative, he was recognized as an individual for the first time in his life. "in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance" (Huxley 66)
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