Monday, July 19, 2010

Marx & the Original Marx

Just how most of us learned about Karl Marx in our history class this past year, the main character, Bernard Marx, has the same last name as the person who wrote Communist Manifesto. I saw it as an allusion that Aldous Huxley borrowed this last mane of the famous historic figure and to relate the similarities with the character in the story, Brave New World. Karl Marx was aware of law and little bits of politics wince his early years because of his father, and he had good education; Bernard Marx was born as an Alpha-plus, having the advantage to a better, educated, and a grandeur life. At first, Karl Marx started off as a socialist, but later became a communist as he got conscious of communism party; on the other hand, grown up as the awkward Alpha-plus because of the alcohol involvement when Bernard Marx was forming in the tube, bottle or whatever, he did not like the former way of life, and wanted something different. It could have been that Huxley intended this, like a Jonas from The Giver, and the original Jonas from the Bible.

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