Sunday, June 14, 2015

Explain the irony contained in chapter 10

I think that the most likely irony that you are referring
to is the irony of what the Director is saying and what the director has
done.


Before Bernard Marx is brought in to be publicly
humiliated and punished the Director is giving this big speech about how bad it is to be
unorthodox.  He says that unorthodoxy of behavior destroys
society.


But even though he is talking about this, we know
(and everyone else will know soon) that the Director himself has been completely
unorthodox.  The proof of that is Linda and she will be revealed
soon.

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