After reading the novel Brave New World I was appalled by the Controller, Mustapha Mond’s, perspective and motives for creating the artificial society. Other authoritative administrators in sci-fi novels’ had strict policies in their society for selfish motives in becoming superior. They are very persuasive, cunning, manipulative, and ambitious in maintaining their strict policies; those who cannot cooperate, they either eliminate or banish them to an isolated area. However, Mond’s motives for his civilized people is to live in the most comfortable lifestyle possible to prevent harmful desires.
Other sci-fi novel administrators considered themselves as a God and focused on their superiority, but Mond preferred a civilization where civilians and people like himself are focused on machinery, medicine, and happiness all together. He was not necessarily an antagonist with greedy desires, he’s a reasonable man for preferring a more beneficial society that avoids specific emotions to get the best of their capabilities. It was surprising how he interprets freedom and goodness as the right to be unhappy, moreover suggests passion is unnecessary and harmful.
The novel clarifies artificial people are not compatible with a community who prefers philosophy over happiness. They cannot be exposed to the society of sin, freedom, and numerous emotions, considering they are far too influenced and exposed to their political world of comfort and ease. Artifical people prefer to avoid curiosity, avert the worries of loss and death, and maintain their romantic system as everyone belongs to everyone else. People exposed and born with human nature appreciates knowledge in books and beauty in nature. Their reality was to discover experiences that could be harmful and severe. Moreover, to provide life from a viviparous mother than born from a bottle.
John is considered diverse in Malpais, and in the artificial society, he is identified as a savage. He could not adapt to his surroundings in relationships, in the artificial society. Because women like Lenina considered a civilized woman in the artificial society, is displayed a strumpet in John’s beliefs, there was not a possibility for them to have a chance with one another based off of their beliefs. Both contrasting societies possess their own beliefs of happiness and queer perspectives on how to perceive their way of pursuing life.
- Trisha Theresse Cornejo
I like that you bring up the fact that most controllers are controlling for greedy desires but Mustapha Mond's mentality is to protect people from getting hurt. He wanted a perfect society without passion and curiosity. Looking at ourselves, I see how easily we are hurting from the truth or the realness of society. However, without passion, choices or a real and individual purpose, we aren't actually people. Passion is what drives us to be who we are and find what makes us important, choices are our life experiences, and having a purpose means finding yourself and providing to the world or those around you. I understand that when failure comes into play, those things can make one feel pain, but without them, we aren't really human.
ReplyDeleteThis novel is truly much different than any other book that qualifies as being in the same genre. The society in this story become human robots. They are all literally "made" and raised to serve society. If they were just ordinary humans, the world can never look as it does in the novel. It would be shrouded in chaos and in disarray =, like ours. I'm not saying this world is a better option than ours. After all, like technology, no matter the class, they lode their freedom in order to carry out the task necessary. They lose their sense of what it means to really be human. John is the literal embodiment of our world, and he is the most important character. He shows just how we would react to such a world. He is the symbol of what it means to be human. Pain, fear, misery, curiosity, all characteristics of a human. Overall, this book is such a genius work, it truly represents the two opposite sides of this world so well: Humankind, and Machines.
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