Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Why can Mond especially understand people who are exiled?Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As the Resident Controller for Western Europe, Mustapha
Mond is one of the ten controllers in the New World.  He is the possessor of works of
Shakespeare, the Bible, and other confiscated novels.  Thus, he is able to read and
study the great works.  And, as Controller, he is able to use freely and with
impunity such words as mother and father. The
maker of the rules, as he says, can break them too. And, so, Mond enjoys the freedom
that the exiled have sought; but, his freedom is exhibited in a singular way, not in
rebellion.  For, Mustapha Mond knows that independent thinking leads to discontent, and
discontent leads to rebellion.


Mustapha Mond chooses to
live as he does in order to maintain order.  For, it is only through unthinking
consumerism that the society is stable. So, he deprives others of free thought,
while he is able to retain unique views on the themes of freedom, happiness,
civilization, and heroism.  Incidentally, his dry delivery of his views contributes much
to the satiric tone of the novel.  And, ironically, in his intellect and wit, Mond is
the character who must resembles Huxley himself. He has simply sacrificed his natural
urges to learn in order to subjugate the people of the Brave New
World.

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