# Bernard Marx · the misfit Alpha

a character of BRAVE NEW WORLD — a member of the NOUTHESIA universe of warnings. emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Bernard Marx:BNW:6cf36d⟧

**who —** Bernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus psychologist who feels physically and socially out of place among his caste.
**what —** The discontent who isn't a hero: he resents the World State for excluding him, not on principle, and folds the moment it accepts him.
**where —** In London's conditioning labs and the social whirl John briefly makes glamorous.
**why —** Because the warning includes the false rebel — the one whose objection is wounded vanity, not conscience.
**how —** By insecurity, a streak of envy, and the brief courage of bringing John back — quickly traded for popularity.

**the seal —** I thought I hated the World State — but I only hated being left out of it, and the moment it loved me I forgot every objection.

> a catalogued personification of BRAVE NEW WORLD under the DLW standard — literary commentary and cataloguing, not an
> original creation. © the Aldous Huxley Estate.

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