Brave New World's Social Outcast

The characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World represent certain political and social ideas. Huxley used what he saw in the world in which he lived to form his book. From what he saw, he imagined that life was heading in a direction of a utopian government control. Huxley did not imagine this as a good thing. He uses the characters of Brave New World to express his view of utopia being impossible and …

…me to an island. I haven’t done anything’” (232). Bernard doesn’t want to be separated from the world he’s so desperately tried to be a part of. Bernard Marx is a social outcast in the novel Brave New World. He does not fit into what his society deemed normal. In making Bernard flawed, Huxley expresses his view of utopia as unattainable while also allowing the reader to relate to the imperfections of humans.