"The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity" (Huxley 65).
Disagree, Individuality is a threat to a harmonious society.
Bernard was always an outsider. In this society, it is wrong to be one. The people in Brave New World are made to look the same and be the same. No one is allowed to be different. Bernard avoided everyone because he felt that he wouldn't be accepted since he looked dissimilar. His physique was hardly any better than the average Gamma and he was eight centimeters shorter than the standard Alpha height. People assumed that when he was in the bottle something went wrong through the Bokanovsky's process.
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