"As for the women, they indignantly felt that they had been had on false pretences-had by a wretched little man who had had alcohol poured into his bottle by mistake-by a creature with a Gamma-Minus physique." PAGE 173
The idea that alcohol was put into Bernard's bottle is repeated on numerous occasions throughout the novel. Any time his differences are being discussed, the idea of the alcohol is mentioned. People are constantly using alcohol in his bottle for an excuse as to why he is physically different than the other Alpha pluses. He also is lonely in his beliefs about society. He is isolated from the others. When people talk about him, the alcohol in the bottle seems to come up quite often. It is a motif repeated throughout the work in connection to Bernard's oddities. In their society, they believe that when someone is not the way they should be it is because something went wrong when the person was being created. Apparently alcohol could cause the mutations present in Bernard. Bernard does not deserve to always be viewed as the one with alcohol in his bottle because he just wants to share his ideas and nobody will listen seriously.
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