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Bernard Marx is one of the protagonists in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and is introduced in chapter 3. He is present throughout the novel and embodies the characteristics of men before Ford. He is the representation of everything the World State has supposedly suppressed. Bernard is hardly a traditional hero figure, but that's why he is so valuable to the story since he represents negative, perhaps even self-destructive, human values in a world that is growing increasingly less human. Due to his small height, he stands eight centimeters short of the standard Alpha height, and lacks physically appealing features. People believe that too much alcohol may have been put accidentally into his blood surrogate when he was still an embryo. That is why he is regarded as deformed by his fellow citizens. Since Bernard is different from other people and not happy with his role of an outcast, it allows him to view things differently and to develop certain self-consciousness. Bernard works as a psychologist who is specialized in sleep teaching in the Central London Hatchery. As a result of his low social standing he has only one real friend, Helmholtz Watson...