Embarrassed by his emotional reverie, the D. But this threat has a tonic effect on Bernard, who later boasts about it to his friend Helmholtz, who likes Bernard but hates his boasting and self-pity. As the Warden leers at Lenina and describes the Reservation — there's no escape, and human birth remains a reality — Bernard suddenly remembers that he left the eau de cologne tap running at home.
When Bernard calls Helmholtz about the tap, Watson gives him some bad news: the D. Appalled by the news, Bernard's "theoretical courage" evaporates, and Lenina persuades him to take soma to calm himself before they fly off to the Savage Reservation. In Chapter 6, Huxley reveals Bernard's pained recognition of the consequences of his anti-social feelings and actions.
The chapter further clarifies Bernard's very shallow attempts to be an individual and makes clear that he lacks the moral courage to suffer for freedom. Toggle navigation. The Director has Henry Foster with him.
He wants to use Bernard as an example to the others. The Director explains to Henry that even though Bernard is excellent at his job, Bernard's inability to fit into Society poses a threat to their very way of life.
The Director says due to Bernard's station in society, because he is an Alpha-Plus, this means he has an enhanced ability to influence others to behave as he does.
Therefore he means to take the appropriate action to stop Bernard. Bernard enters the Fertilizing Room with a bit of confidence knowing that he has Linda and John to use against the Director.
He is still uneasy being called to a meeting with the Director, especially one held in such an unusual place. After establishing that Bernard had just returned from his vacation, the Director calls for everyone who is in the room attention.
The Director tells those present that Bernard, who is an Alpha-Plus, has unorthodox views on recreational activity, soma, that his sex life is not normal, he refuses to obey the teachings of Our Ford, and he refuses to act in an infantile way during his free-time.
Because of this Bernard is seen as a traitor to the Society, he is a person who undercuts the Order and Stability of the Civilization. His punishment for these crimes against Society is to be fired from his present position and to be sent to a Sub-Centre in Iceland.
Not just a cell in the social body. But Lenina was crying. After all, every one works for every one else. So am I. Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. More together than in that crowd, or even in my rooms.
He looked at her in silence, his face unresponsive and very grave—looked at her intently. The silence prolonged itself. When Bernard spoke at last, it was in a small tired voice. At four thousand he started his propeller. They flew in silence for a minute or two. Then, suddenly, Bernard began to laugh. Rather oddly, Lenina thought, but still, it was laughter. For answer, he lifted one hand from the controls and, slipping his arm around her, began to fondle her breasts.
Half an hour later they were back in his rooms. Bernard swallowed four tablets of soma at a gulp, turned on the radio and television and began to undress.
She looked up with a certain anxiety. And inwardly. He began to talk a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous nonsense. Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible.
The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind. The mad bad talk rambled on. Ignoring the interruption. Perhaps he had found her too plump, after all. He has such awfully nice hands. He knocked and entered.
The Director glanced at him sourly. Everything was perfectly in order. The director had no choice. He pencilled his initials—two small pale letters abject at the feet of Mustapha Mond—and was about to return the paper without a word of comment or genial Ford-speed, when his eye was caught by something written in the body of the permit.
The Director leaned back in his chair, frowning. Nearer twenty-five. Bernard felt extremely uncomfortable. A man so conventional, so scrupulously correct as the Director—and to commit so gross a solecism! It made him want to hide his face, to run out of the room. Not that he himself saw anything intrinsically objectionable in people talking about the remote past; that was one of those hypnopaedic prejudices he had so he imagined completely got rid of.
What made him feel shy was the knowledge that the Director disapproved-disapproved and yet had been betrayed into doing the forbidden thing. Under what inward compulsion? Through his discomfort Bernard eagerly listened. Got a permit for New Mexico and went there for my summer holiday. With the girl I was having at the moment. Anyhow she was pneumatic, particularly pneumatic; I remember that.
Well, we went there, and we looked at the savages, and we rode about on horses and all that. And then—it was almost the last day of my leave—then … well, she got lost.
Just as Helmholtz is too talented to feel at home in the World State, Bernard is too self-involved. When Helmholtz and John become better friends with each other than they are with Bernard, Bernard feels jealous.
Ironically, his response shows exactly why he is unable to get along with them as well as they get along with each other. Helmholtz and John bond over their interest in intense feeling, but Bernard tries to suppress the feeling of intense jealousy with soma. Ace your assignments with our guide to Brave New World!
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