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11111nata11111 [884]
3 years ago
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The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him an

d intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity. How bitterly he envied men like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover! Men who never had to shout at an Epsilon to get an order obeyed; men who took their position for granted; men who moved through the caste system as a fish through water--so utterly at home as to be unaware either of themselves or of the beneficent and comfortable element in which they had their being.
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ANEK [815]3 years ago
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This is an excerpt from "Brave New World" that focuses on the feeling of inferiority and not belonging.

Explanation:

The excerpt shows a character who felt extremely inferior within the environment in which he lived, because he was physically different from the others. This inferiority was strengthened by the moments of mockery to which he was subjected that caused him so deep trauma that he prevented associate with people like him, as it makes him envy a life he will never have, leaving his high esteem even more scrapped and oppressed.

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