BNW Ch. 6

• see Bernard's resistance to "the norm" when he resists taking soma
• Bernard confesses to Lenina that the silence of the Channel makes him feel like an individual but his only startles Lenina who is accustomed the life and rules on the Brave New World
• Bernard does give in to the soma and has sex with Lenina
• sex to him has no sentimental value but is a way of release
• no love, no passion, no desire, numbed by the soma
• Bernard does back to the director and asks for a permit to the Reservation
• the director ends up telling him about a woman he traveled with once who was lost in a storm but is soon brought back to reality and threatens with exiling Bernard
• Bernard has new pride in himself
• the director felt weak with what he confessed to Bernard and covers himself with the threat placed in Bernard for being an outcast