"Well, now she had said it and he was still wretched- wretched that she should have thought it such a perfect afternoon for Obstacle Golf, that she should have trotted away to join Henry Foster, that she should have found him funny for not wanting to talk of their most private affairs in public. Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way" (Huxley 64).
Anchor Statement: Scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity.
In this chapter we meet Bernard Marx who is a rather different character than other characters in this novel. Bernard is approached by Lenina and asked on a date. Bernard is surprised and acts in a rather awkward and unsettling way. His reaction is due to the fact that he did not expect Lenina to ask him on a date in such a private way. In their world birth control is used so that people can have as much sex as they want with whomever they want. Therefore, sex has become less meaningful than it is mean to be in a real-world society. When Lenina approached Bernard, she approaches him in a rather meaningful way which throws Bernard off. Therefore, I qualify this statement because in this chapter we see how scientific (birth control) advancement does not benefit Bernard specifically because he is not used to a meaningful conversation with a woman and does not know how to act in such a scenario. Although this may not be beneficial in Bernard's case, scientific advancements are beneficial in other cases in the novel.
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