Due to his short stature, Marx is not as attractive to women as other Alpha, so he feels inferior psychologically, not very gregarious, and always has some weird ideas. For example, he said to the beautiful girl Lenina, "I would rather be myself. Although I am not very clever, I don't want to be someone else, even if it is very happy." The saying that "I would rather be myself" indicates that he has self-awareness and independence. Although Marx has produced self-consciousness and despised the value standard of the new world, he does not understand the meaning of self-consciousness. The root of his self-consciousness lies in physical defects and psychological inferiority. Marx does not understand the relationship between self-awareness and freedom and personal happiness. Once he has restored self-confidence through other means and overcomes the feeling of inferiority, he agrees with the value of the new world. Therefore, Marx is still a person who is constrained by the values of the new world. His departure from the value of the new world does not pose a serious threat to the new world. There are factors of resistance, but there is no courage to make a decision; when punished, he will ask for forgiveness. When he is alone, he will be self-sufficient.

As shown in chapter 15, Helmholtz already knows enough to identify what is wrong with the new world. Unlike Bernard, whose thoughts are probably influenced by his ulterior motives, Helmholtz can sympathize with John's cause despite his different cultural upbringing. Thus, he shows a stark difference from Bernard when John throws away the soma as he seeks the same ideal. In the world where instant gratification is the norm, he certainly is in the right direction to see what is wrong with their new world. This is quite evident when Helmholtz is reading Shakespeare's works. While he can appreciate the beauty of his work, certain notions like parents and other words feel ridiculous to him. Regardless, Helmholtz understands the new world can't provide the experience of genuine emotions and his decision at the end when he decides to be exiled to an island with a harsh weather reflects this. He certainly is different from the rest of the people in the new world, despite everything he had offered from the new world, he is still letting to part with them for the pursuit of his true self.

John refuses to give up his thought of literature and love. He keeps conflicting to the way the new world let people express love - only with sexual and childish pleasure. He has a trauma to his mother, so he never compromises. At the end, he finally kills himself. The moral concepts he learned from the savage reservation society and the moral concepts he saw in Shakespeare's novels make John think everyone in the World State throws themselves away into a deep hole of immorality as if they were devils who only crave sex. Afterwards, John, fed up with people from the World State, refuses to meet with them. He becomes familiar with Helmholtz with poetry by medium and the two men shouts for freedom at the soma distribution scene. Even though they became friends, Helmholtz is deeply disappointed as he does not understand and laughs at the concept of parent-child relationships and love in Shakespeare's novels. Anyway, seeing his mother suddenly die of drug addiction and act like a machine by society, John becomes completely disgusted with the World State and misses where he lived.