Brave New World 5

"What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals." pg. 67

Throughout this chapter, Bernard Marx came to realize how different he truly was from everyone. However, he also realized he was not alone. He had a friend, Helmholtz Watson, who was also unlike the rest of the robotic humans. During a meeting together, Watson pondered a series of rhetorical questions such as, "What is there more important to say?" and "Can you say something about nothing?" I think that these rhetorical questions were asked in seeking to find the meaning to why they are different. These questions show how differently their mind's work in comparison to the others. Bernard and Watson represent a deeper intuition to knowledge and curiosity.  They understand that they have been set apart from the other people, yet they do not understand why. These two characters seem to have more complexity to them and also reflect a nature of care and concern, where as the rest of the society does not. Watson hopes that Bernard may have an answer to why they are different, but he is wondering the same thing. I think that being outcasts will form a union between these characters and that their curiosity will cause conflict with the head of their society, resulting in a major turn of events.