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| | Embodiments and Contextual Difference |
 | | However, in the case of the four main characters, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, Helmholtz Watson, and Lenina Crowne, my contention is that the roles Bernard and John are seen as embodying have remained relatively static, while those of Watson and Lenina have undergone revision, which in Leninas case could be considered quite radical. |
 | | Helmholtz Watson, on the other hand, is an outsider from the new world because he is too smart to accept his position as professor at the College of Emotional Engineering. |
 | | Watsons possibility, in the context of modernism, was unfulfilled, and therefore wasteful or useless. |
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