Bernard Marx
Bernard is an Alpha-Plus psychologist who feels physically inferior and socially excluded.
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Spoiler-freeBernard is an Alpha-Plus psychologist who feels physically inferior and socially excluded. His criticism of the World State is partly sincere and partly fueled by wounded pride. Bringing John to London makes him fashionable, and he quickly enjoys the status he once condemned. When threatened with exile, he panics. Mond sends him to Iceland, where other dissatisfied people live; the novel does not follow his later life.
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