Brave New World Draft

Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD)
in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that 
character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and 
moral values. 

Through out the span of literature, authors strive to entrance the reader into seeing their selves with in a character. Writers often find that their audience responds to the alienation of  characters because the readers will sympathize. In the case of Brave New World, Huxley appeals to us through multiple characters. Bernard, in the mist of a totalitarian society is brought up in brain wash, sex, and drugs; social conventions found to be normal and even required. Yet Bernard Marx   wishes for free thinking, individuality, and a monogamous relationship; three things that more or less nonexistent in the brave new world. Rejected for his beliefs, Bernard is  ostracized by most of the society. Huxley's intention for Bernard is not just to capture the readers attention and emotions, but to also reveal the true dark side the the brave new worlds society that was built of the pillar of conditioning.

When we are first introduced to Bernard he is portrayed as the outcast hero of Brave New World. Looking for something more to life than sex, drugs, and expectations. To the government of the brave new world Bernard is seen as a failure of conditioning. From brainwashing him while he sleeps, to drugging him, to the constant sex; Bernard strives to be an individual. A value that here in our own culture that we find to be of norm is a terrible heresy in the brave new world. Huxley's sense of irony seduces us to root for Bernard who does't wish to be one of the crowd (like he is supposed to), he likes to be alone to think, he voids the brave new world drug Soma when we has the self will, and attempts to have more than purely physical relationships. 

As the reader grows fond of Bernard we suddenly shift to a drastic change in his heroic personality as he begins to conform. I believe that is why Huxley shifts perspectives to John, another character who faces alienation.; to keep the reader feeling apart of a character, even though John shows the challenging views of a "savage" society. Huxley among many author's was the importance of a relate able character, to appeal to the readers fears of being an outcast. Through such subjected characters we see what the opposite of their society demands and desires out of it's people.