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Brave New World Analysis 1/31) One of the greatest conflicts witnessed so far in the first 90 pages of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is the one within the main protagonist, Bernard Marx. Throughout the book, Bernard encounters a violent conflict within himself. He was born different from everyone else and finds himself questioning the system many times, he feels there is so much more to be/accomplish in life than just having sex and playing "obstacle golf". Bernard is torn between whether he should share what he feels with the rest of the world and reveal his thoughts, or whether he should just keep his mouth shut because all he really wants is to fit in. He just wants to be accepted among the members of his caste. as equals, even if physically he is not on the same level as them. He should follow what he believes is right, or what everyone else believes is right and what he has been conditioned to believe is right. Another conflict we see in the book is when Lenina is undecided whether to stay with Henry, a man she has been seeing for four months, or see other men for a change. This seems strange to us, because when you find someone you like, you generally stay with them, but in the World State spending too much time with someone is frowned upon, after all “everyone belongs to everyone”, the hypnopaedic phrase planted in people's heads since tender age. She doesn't know it, but maybe deep down she might have feelings for Henry but doesn't know how to act on them since the feelings of love and attachment to a person are something unheard of. He should follow his heart or follow the norm of society. 2) So far, I have deduced that Bernard Marx is, or is, one of the main characters in Brave New World. Bernard is an Alpha Plus,...... middle of paper......means to be full of air. I think the men mean that she is very attractive, curvy, and just extremely attractive, but I also think there is a second meaning behind the word that Huxley is trying to convey. He is trying to say that Lenina's body may be extremely attractive, but her mind is pneumatic. In simpler words, he is an airhead. She doesn't think about anything meaningful and is extremely dull and boring. All she really does is throw her body away so that men can have her (we can't judge, as this is what she and every other woman have been conditioned to do since birth), and that's why everyone is so attracted to her. The term "tire" is so constantly used to describe her, and she soon becomes associated with it so that all it does is remind readers that she is the most accurate and faithful representation of a vanilla global stateswoman..