His character is slowly changing from the loner he once was for his individuality to just like all the people of World State with the concepts of how they should live. He is constantly shown getting ahead of himself. He even says the phrases of “Just to please me”, “won’t you come to please me”, and “but what should we do”(158). He went from not believing in using soma to almost taking numerous amounts of it to escape from reality. He is shown to even be desperate for attention by even begging john to go in chapter 12. With this he rises to fame and is shown to slowly absorbing his fame that he is receiving by using john. and Bernard who in a way over through the director by bringing Linda and John back to world state to reveal his doings of fathering a child. The changes many of the characters are going through such as the director whom is shown to be very prideful for his work as leading the World state but suddenly shown in shame with a blink of an eye (138). Reading chapter 10-13 of “Brave New World” you could see all the changes that are happening through out the story and the clashing of values that are happening. Posted in 'Brave New World' (chapters 10-13), Reading Responses | Leave a reply Clashing of of Two Worlds I wonder now what’s going to happen with their friendship. To the point he threatened to kick him out. Interrupting them as they would speak saying things such as orgy porgy.

As it states in the text ” In the course of their next two or three meetings he frequently repeated this little act of vengeance” (Huxley Pg.167). Not exactly the one he wants to come up with but it’s helping.īernard was starting to take vengeance on Helmholtz and John because of their connection. This allows for Helmholtz to come up with ideas. John tells Helmholtz parts of Shakespeare’s plays. They both seem to really get along especially when it comes to writing. He becomes jealous of the relation ship that is starting to form between Helmholtz and John. We also see in this chapter Bernard becoming jealous. In the text it says ” Helmholtz gave it and gave it without a reproach, without a comment, as though he had forgotten that there had ever been a quarrel” (Huxley Pg.164). Bernard goes back to Helmholtz to ask him for his friendship again after their disagreement. He doesn’t get noticed by people anymore and no one sees him as this greater being for having brung the savage to the civilized world. We see that Bernard starts going back to his old ways. At the end of the dinner we see that Bernard takes a soma. John chooses not to go and everyone is left to think that Bernard is a joke. Maybe all the popularity was going to his head and he thought he would do this just to please him. Almost as if he gave himself an importance in the savages life. Bernard was so afraid to go back to his old ways he begged the savage to come out for his dinner.īernard says to the savage ” Won’t you come to please me?” (Huxley Pg. You may call it normal but it would be different it would set him apart from everyone else. Soon enough Bernard was going to be the same way he was before. People do say nothing lasts forever and it seemed that way for Bernard’s newfound popularity. This is definitely a change in Bernard’s attitude as we see he now enjoys being with more than one person. As it also states in the text ” At the same time, he genuinely liked being a success and having all the girls he wanted” (Huxley Pg.145). He was being sought out by the most important people. Everyone now sees Bernard as this greater because of the savage. He has become a popular man because of John “The Savage”. Then we see the path Bernard has started to take. Why is he disapproving now when they were actually two very good friends in the beginning? We see that Helmholtz is disapproving Bernard’s actions. In the text it states ” Helmholtz listened to his boasting a in a silence so gloomily disapproving that Bernard was offended” (Huxley Pg.145). I definitely noticed his new attitude when he was boasting away to Helmholtz. You might even say he has actually become like everyone else. There were also new actions and a new attitude shown by Bernard. I couldn’t help but notice Bernard’s new popularity throughout these chapters.

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