People (Character Development):
“Bernard's other victim-friend was Helmholtz. When, discomfited, he came and asked once more for the friendship which, in his prosperity, he had not thought it worth his while to preserve. Helmholtz gave it; and gave it without a reproach, without a comment, as though he had forgotten that there had ever been a quarrel. Touched, Bernard felt himself at the same time humiliated by this magnanimity – a magnanimity the more extraordinary and therefore the more humiliating in that it owed nothing tosoma and everything to Helmholtz's character. It was the Helmholtz of daily life who forgot and forgave, not the Helmholtz of a half-gramme holiday. Bernard was duly grateful (it was an enormous comfort to have his friend again) and also duly resentful (it would be pleasure to take some revenge on Helmholtz for his generosity).” (179)
Bernard is a much different man from when he met John. His character has developed and he has seemed to lose personality since then. A possible reason could be the Soma, which I mentioned in another blog post, that takes control of him like a drug. It’s almost as if the World State is indirectly controlling him. Maybe John will help Bernard and develop him back into a some-what independent man again.
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