{"id":271711,"date":"2010-02-03T05:01:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/fd216dab8ef7cdf68f3ba0a7202f82f3"},"modified":"2010-02-03T05:01:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T10:01:04","slug":"in-the-book-brave-new-world-is-bernard-marx-a-hero-or-a-rebel-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271711","title":{"rendered":"In The Book Brave New World, Is Bernard Marx A Hero Or A Rebel ? Why ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bernard Marx is clearly one of the main characters in Brave New World, Huxley does not present him as &#8220;the hero&#8221; or even give him any heroic qualities except, perhaps, intelligence. In spite of this &#8211; or perhaps because of it &#8211; Bernard is closer to the reader than any other character except, later on, John, &#8220;the Savage.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q96\/q962\/q9626\/q962625_68257_956_bravenewworld_firstedition\"\/><\/div>\n<p>In some ways it seems that Huxley uses Bernhard as a means to help the reader understand the &#8220;New World&#8221; society better. John has an outsider&#8217;s view -almost everything in it shocks or disgusts him. <\/p>\n<p>Helmholz Watson, much closer than Bernard to being a typical &#8220;hero&#8221; is such a forceful character that he always seems to be in control &#8211; the reader is invited to admire him rather than feel with him. <\/p>\n<p>But Bernard is bright enough to question his society, individual enough to rebel in small ways but &#8211; until the last conflict &#8211; not brave enough to reject it fully. <\/p>\n<p>So I think we can see Bernard as a kind of hero for a society without heroes &#8211; scared, confused and critical &#8211; an Everyman with whom the reader can sympathize even while finding him flawed and comical.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/W7XIvCAEK_o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Bernard Marx is clearly one of the main characters in Brave New World, Huxley does not present him as &#8220;the hero&#8221; or even give him any heroic qualities except, perhaps, intelligence. In spite of this &#8211; or perhaps because of it &#8211; Bernard is closer to the reader than any other character except, later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}