Brave New World Close Writing

        As Bernard and Lenina are on their holiday together, their views on individualism and freedom are discovered. Pages 90-91 highlight their differing ideas, as well as exposing more of their identities to the reader. “’It makes me feel as though…’ he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, ‘as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn’t it make you feel like that, Lenina?’” (Huxley 90).  Bernard has an inner inhibition that there is something more purposeful he is to be doing with his life. While Bernard yearns for something more than the everyday, group routine and longs to let something out of him out, Lenina is terrified of the idea of being alone with Bernard, away from a group. Lenina responds to Bernard’s question with tears, “’It’s horrible, it’s horrible,’ she kept repeating. ‘And how can you talk like that about not wanting to be a part of the social body?’” (91). Lenina sees nothing wrong with being a part of the social body, and in fact, longs for group support and stability. She feels as if she is free to do what she wants and feel how she wants. However, Bernard feels enslaved by his conditioning and his predestined life as an Epsilon.