Subversive Tendencies
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SUBVERSIVE TENDENCIES Preety Grewal English 1A 11.20.2001 Essay #3 In the novel, Brave New World, we are presented with a society where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness is unheard of. Aldous Huxley creates a society in which individual creativity is frowned upon and in which only those who conform are welcome. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson's individualistic values pose a substantial threat to the social stability in the World State. As a result of their individualism, they become social outcasts in a conformed society. Bernard and Helmholtz are both a part of the class known as the Alpha-Plus intellectuals. They are outsiders with a need for solitude and encompass subversive tendencies relative to the desired utopian society. Their common characteristics are completely dissimilar from other members of this society. Bernard is inadequate to his colleagues, so he resorts to entertaining himself, most evenings, without the company of a...

