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He is introverted and prefers being alone rather than spending time with others.
- “And then he spends most of his time by himself--alone” (45)

He is passionate and very eager to experience something meaningful.

- “I want to feel something strongly.” (94)

Bernard feels insecure about his being and is considered individual compared to the Alphas and other castes.

- “Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy.” (43)

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- Bernard is a short, disfigured,     frail,and slender man who was eight centimeters short of an average Alpha.
“Bernard’s physique as hardly better than that of the average Gamma. He stood eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion” (43)

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- Bernard believes in monogamy and is disgusted at the concept of having multiple partners. He also believes in treating others as individuals rather than consumables.

“Talking about her as though she were a bit of meat.” Bernard ground his teeth. “Have her here, have her there.” Like mutton. Degrading her to so much mutton. She said she’d think it over, she said she’d give me an answer this week. Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford.” He would have liked to go up to them and hit them in the face-hard, again and again. (45-46)

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He dreams to experience something meaningful in his life

- “I want to know what passion is...I want to feel something strongly.” (94)

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One of Bernards greatest worries is that he is the fact that he is different from everyone else.

- “the knowledge that they were individuals. But whereas the physically defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the consciousness of being separate” (45)

Bernard also worries about talking about intimate relations in front of others or even putting himself out there in society.

- “He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her. Dared he face the risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal? “ (43)

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Bernard wants to stay true to himself

- “I’d rather be myself...Myself and nasty...Not somebody else, however jolly.” (89)

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Bernard usually says things that usually relate to wondering what it would be like if they were free.

- “But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else’s way.” (61)

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Bernard constantly thinks about what it would be like to be free

- “How is it that I can’t, or rather-because, after all, I know quite well why I can’t-what would it be like if I could, if I were free-not enslaved by my conditioning.” (61)

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He causes others to feel unease and awkwardness

- “He looked at her in silence, his face unresponsive and very grave...After a few seconds, Lenina’s eyes flinched away; she uttered a nervous little laugh” (92)

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He tries to avoid practices that glue him to the rest of society

- “I thought we’d be more. more together here-with nothing but the sea and moon. More together than in that crowd, or even in my rooms. Don’t you understand that?”

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Bernard wears gray clothing because he is an Alpha

- “Alpha children wear grey” (27)

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He fails to fit in due to his lack of traits that all other Alphas have.

- “I wish he weren’t so odd.” (94)