Bernard+and+Helmholtz+have+their+talk

What:
 * Establishes the character of Helmholtz Watson as the seemingly perfect Alpha male who feels that he is missing out on something important and could be doing more with his writing
 * Further develops the character of Bernard Marx and mainly focuses on elaborating on his insecurities
 * Describes one job that the Alphas partake in - Emotional Engineering, which also shows the extent to which the World State conditions its people

Why:
 * Compare Helmholtz and Bernard - they are opposites when compared by their individual characteristics
 * Show the overarching similarity between them: due to either being too good or too bad, they break from conventions and consider themselves to be individuals
 * Gives more insight into what society values in an Alpha male (everything that Helmholtz has - sexual prowess, intelligence, size)

How:
 * Both characters carry on concurrent yet unrelated conversations mainly with themselves, and afterwards, Bernard listens to Helmholtz's quandary
 * Both characters think or describe the ways in which they feel they break from convention, and pose unanswerable questions (mainly Helmholtz)
 * The reader is given both a sense of contrast if each conversation (or speech) is taken individually and a sense of similarity as the two speeches ultimately describe how each character fails to fit in
 * Their actual differences are highlighted and reaffirmed by Helmholtz's wishing that Bernard would "show more pride"