Huxley Essay

In Aldous Huxleys prologue to Brave New World, he gave his character two choices, "an insane life in a utopia or the life of a primitive in an Indian village." Huxley decided to give his character only these specific choices. But Bernard personifies the equivocation of both these choices. 

So what does that mean? Well the first choice given by Huxley represents the person who knows what's going on in the middle of the so called utopia. The other represents the man decided to leave the utopia, but has a harder life socially, economically, etc. So Bernard represents the middle ground of theses two ideas. Bernard is characterized as queer and melancholy by Lenina and given the excuse of "alcohol in his embryo." Which is very situationally ironic. Because when we hear Bernard's thoughts about Lenina's promiscuity, "like meat, so much meat." So we know that Bernard knows. So he epitomizes this outward conformity and inward questioning. Because Bernard also participates in an orgy and soma thing. But again he exhibits inward questioning. During the main ritual he could only think about some lady's eyebrows, and doesn't participate. 

So what is Huxley tying to say? Well I think that Huxley used Bernard in this way to make a connection with readers who who can identify with it, hopefully inciting a desire to change the real world.