BERNARD MARX
AS SEEN IN:
"Brave New World"
CREATED BY:
Aldous Huxley
PORTRAYED BY:
Bud Cort
TV DIMENSION:
Alternate Future Timeline
From Wikipedia:
Bernard Marx [is] a sleep-learning specialist at the Hatchery and
Conditioning Centre. Bernard is a misfit. He is unusually short for an Alpha; an
accident with alcohol in Bernard's blood-surrogate before his decanting has left
him slightly stunted. Bernard's independence of mind stems more from his
inferiority-complex and depressive nature than any depth of philosophical
conviction. Unlike his fellow utopians, Bernard is often angry, resentful and
jealous. At times, he is also cowardly and hypocritical. His conditioning is
clearly incomplete. He doesn't enjoy communal sports, solidarity services, or
promiscuous sex. He doesn't even get much joy out of soma. Bernard is in love
with the highly beddable Lenina. He doesn't like her sleeping with other men,
though in BNW "everyone belongs to everyone else". Bernard's triumphant return
to utopian civilisation with John the Savage from the Reservation precipitates
the downfall of the Director, who had been planning to exile him. Bernard's
triumph is short-lived. Success goes to his head. Despite his tearful pleas, he
is ultimately banished to an Island, one for others like himself, for his
non-conformist behaviour.
BCnU!
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