To begin, let me say that Bernard Marx is a very interesting character who possesses unique qualities that in the dystopia, he is marked as a pariah in Aldous Huxley's book, Brave New World. It undergoes drastic changes from beginning to end, but plays a vital role in the book. He is extremely different from everyone else because he dreams of having everything that the World State doesn't want. Bernard Marx considers himself an outcast due to his short stature, lack of confidence in his words and is afraid of being rejected by all the women he wants but cannot have. In Brave New World, stature represents a high superiority over others and Bernard got the short end of the stick and now lives with it in shame and humiliation. In Chapter 4, Huxley describes: "Bernard's physique was certainly no better than that of an average Gamma. He was eight centimeters below the standard height of an Alpha and was slender in proportion. Contact with members of the lower castes it always reminded him painfully of this physique." inadequacy… Each time he found himself looking at the level, rather than down, within ...