Saturday, June 25, 2011

Brave New World - Eleven

     "'I ventured to think,' stammered Bernard, 'that your fordship might find the matter of sufficient scientific interest...'
     'Yes, I do find it of sufficient scientific interest,' said the deep voice.  'Bring these two individuals back to London with you' (pg 141)."

 This dialogue seems to be a nice time to portray Bernard Marx as dynamic character since it shows a new, more confident side of Marx (the nature of the proposal, that is, not the way he stammers it); however, since I have not seen the repercussions of the situation, I cannot say that with certainty.  Marx wants to bring John and Linda back to the "Other World" for what seemed to be just a random act of kindness, but this quote from Marx seems to contradict previous assumptions.  It appears as though the true motive of bringing John and Linda to London is to psycho-analyze two of the more sane of the savages.  Also, it may allow them to conclude the faults that were found within Linda.  This seems completely uncharacteristic of Bernard Marx's presumed dislike of many of the Hatchery's bizarre ethics, but I suppose being under the spotlight may have made him feel the pressure of doing something to prove his loyalty.

This dialogue also seems to show a synecdoche (Mozilla just told me "synecdoche" should be spelled "Indochinese") when Huxley portray Mustapha Mond through merely his "deep voice."  I figure this could be sort of a symbol of change in Marx.  Portraying someone through simply an overbearing presence seems to be a common theme for people speaking with Bernard, but this time, Marx did not back down or "blush."  The overall mood of the diction surrounding Bernard seems to show some emotional changes in him, but I would not be shocked if I just read way to far into that nice and short chapter.

4 comments:

  1. Ooh, good job with the synecdoche, I think. Chrome told me the same thing.

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  2. Nice and shoooort? I don't think we read the same chapter eleven. Unless you were being sarcastic. I am not very good at detecting sarcasm.

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  3. This post was about chapter 9, but it was my 11th post. We needed 20 posts so I doubled up chapter 3 and some other early chapter (7 maybe?) that I deemed important.

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  4. Your identifying some of the complexity in Bernard's character.

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