BNW CH 6 (Reaction/response)

The introversion/ seeming  definite depression (if not timidity) of Bernard's character IMHO is foreshadowing a shake-up not to far in the future. He speaks of feeling like an "individual" when in quiet solitude as he departs the (to him) UN-stimulating wrestling match with Lenina in complete contrast with the pillars of the world state (Community, Identity, Stability) wherein individual identity is snuffed out, submerged and swallowed in a sea of human noise so loud any and all individuality is drowned. Indeed the lack of compulsion to consume Soma, Bernard's resistance to the apparent euphoria of the agent only characterizes him as one who does not see pleasure as a doped-up ambling husk, rather experience/observe reality without the numbing stupor, comatose from the concoction. Unfortunately he succumbs to Lenina's harassing and ultimately takes the drug, engaging in behavior this blog would blush to push but, least to say I predict some conflict with Bernard and the ideals of this utopian-dystopia soon to come.