Brave New World occurs six hundred years in the future. This entry was posted on Februand tagged ihubreads2015. Also, when Mustapha Mond makes John stay in the Brave New World, I believe it was because he wanted to take this chance to see what would happen to the Savage if he stayed in the Brave New World, and also use it for future references. I agree with John how there should be art, although it may cause you unhappiness, they may also give you happiness as well. In the Brave New World, I believe that it was mostly ‘soma’ that caused people to be “happy”. I don’t believe that stability is the main cause for happiness, at least in the Brave New World.
Some of the questions were what I also had in mind, and I agreed to Mond’s explanation/response to John’s questions, except when he said that stability leads to happiness. For example, why there aren’t only Alphas in the society, or books like Shakespeare. In these chapters, I think the author used the World Controller, Mustapha Mond to answer various questions about the Brave New World. Later on, John remembers what he’d done, and hangs himself. John uses violence against them, and whips Lenina, as she appears in front of John- who is not in the right mind. People discover his ‘whippings’, and news reporters visit him. John chooses an old abandoned lighthouse to live in, and whips himself in ‘remorse for his sins’. Bernard and Helmoltz are sent to an island, except John, who has to stay because Mond wants to continue his experiment. And he believes that in order for stability to be consistent in a society, they have to sacrifice art. In the end, Mond states that he believes ‘stability’ is the most important thing to have in a society, because he believes it leads to happiness. It turned out to be exactly as what they had imagined, they soon had World Wars, and later asked the World Controllers to take charge again. He said it theoretically didn’t make sense, but they also had an experiment (the Cyprus experiment), where there had a large number of Alphas tested to live on an island, to left to govern their own selves. During the debate, Mond explains that the reason why there aren’t only Alphas in the society, is because Alphas wouldn’t do the work of Epsilons, and it would lead to no work getting done. For example, they talk about why the society isn’t only full of Alphas, or there are no books like Shakespeare. John asks questions to Mond, and they have a debate about the Brave New World.
Mond asks John if he likes the society, and John admits that he doesn’t. John, Bernard, and Helmoltz are brought to Mustapha Mond’s office, and John is excited that Mustapha Mond knows about Shakespeare.
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