It may seem as if Bernard and Helmholtz are bold and ambitious for realizing that they possess the right and power to say what they like and do as they wish but where would that get them? Exiled. When reading Brave New World, I realized that Helmholtz and Bernard weren't the only ones with emotions and feelings out of the ordinary. The Director tells Bernard of a woman whom he traveled to the reservation with once and it seems as if he had genuine feelings for her which makes him quickly state that he wasn't emotionally attached to her. When The Controller is talking to John, he tells him of all the old books he has read and views on God and things that would be prohibited to the rest of society. He even tells him that he was once in Helmholtz and Bernard's shoes when he longed for science. Yet he chose to mend his ways and do his part in society. He chose what I think is the smart thing to do. Bernard and Helmholtz felt different and end up being sent into exile, they got nowhere. The Controller felt the same way but put that behind him and is still living in The Other World. Are they just ambitious or are they just naive for thinking their differences would do any good to the world or themselves?
-Ariana Allison
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Got nowhere? Based on their enjoyment of the unorthodox [at least according to their society], they ended up with the best possible outcome.
Even Mustapha Mond tells them so. According to his description, the island in which they'll be "exiled" is rich with free-thinking inhabitants---a safe-haven for Hemholtz and Bernard, I'd think.
True, but I think the whole reason for their outbreak in public was to inform everyone of their crazy way of living and possibly some sort of change which didn't happen. It seems like going to an island is the last thing Bernard wants but he is always changing his mind. One day he'll hate society, the next he'll want to fit in. That's just my view, we all interpret things in our own way and that's the beauty of our society today.
-Ariana Allison
Bernard and Helmholtz want change but they are not stupid for wanting it and fighting for it. What the controller did was conform, conform to a world that was said to be civilized when the whole thing was just plain unnatural. In history, every revolution, every idea thought, however many times it was shot down, eventually turned into something bigger. Even in the society of Brave New World, they had to fight n fight for years until they were able to change the world. So Bernard and Helmholtz were not stupid, just striving for what they thought was right.
I don't necessarily think that it was stupidity that landed them to be shipped off to the islands. It is true that Bernard and Hemoltz were ambtious to make a difference in their society but I can't techincally call them stupid for doing something they thought was right. In fact I consider their rebellion against their society as almost 'human' like because they somehow did things that were completely different from what they were conditioned to do. Though it might have a lot to do with the accidents during the time they were decanted but no matter, as Robert said on top of me, as unorthodox as it seemed, they did end up with the best possible outcome: fittting in with the right group of people.
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