Name three faults that the DHC finds with Bernard’s behavior. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning's diatribe against
Bernard in Chapter 10 of Brave New World is reminiscent of the
pronouncements of the Soviet Union that was existant in Aldous Huxley's day. With Bernard's last
name as a reminder of the U.S.S.R.--Marx--the mention of Bernard's faults in this allusion is
especially effective. So, when Bernard enters and speaks a little too loudly, the Director begins
his list of offenses against Bernard:

1. He has betrayed the
   trust given to him as an Alpha Plus by his "heretical views on sport and soma."
   [The reader remembers that Bernard does not always take soma and he enjoys looking at
   nature instead of playing Obstacle Golf]


2. Bernard has a scandalous
   "unorthodoxy of his sexlife." [Rather than follow the "everyone belongs to everyone" belief,
   Bernard prefers to be with Lenina for extended periods.]


3. He has
   had lapses from the appropriate "infantile decorum." Bernard has not been infantile in his
   emotional behavior; he is supposed to have an imbecilic
   happiness.


4. Bernard is a subverter of all order and stability, "a
   conspirator against Society itself." [Bernard is too
   individualistic]

While Bernard respresents negative
traits, they are, at least, human traits that suggest human values in an increasingly inhuman
world. Thus, Bernard, flawed as he is, is an invaluable character in Huxley's
dysutopia.