The ideas of the passage can be used to manipulate the desired outcomes of human experiences such as family, monogamy, impulse, feeling, and desire. The "sane men" that control the people's desires such as monogamy can control it simply through repetition. Mustapha Mond told the students that "every one belongs to every one else" to which "the students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable" (Huxley 40). The controllers also manipulate the people by telling them that the "poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy" (41). They try to tell the people that they do not need the desired human experiences like family and monogamy because that just made the "pre-moderns" unhappy while the world that the people were living in now was a lot better than before. The Controller tells the students that they are "fortunate boys...no pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy-to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all" (44). The controllers feel that they can manipulate the desired outcomes of human experiences by creating people with no emotions at all because that would help people stay loyal to the government. They would not have distractions which would detract their loyalty.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Brave New World
In chapter 3 of Brave New World Mustapha Mond said, "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." This passage sums up the value system in their society because it is saying that society can go on but someone must be there to help it go on as it is supposed to. They believe that someone needs to control all aspects of the people's lives.
The ideas of the passage can be used to manipulate the desired outcomes of human experiences such as family, monogamy, impulse, feeling, and desire. The "sane men" that control the people's desires such as monogamy can control it simply through repetition. Mustapha Mond told the students that "every one belongs to every one else" to which "the students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable" (Huxley 40). The controllers also manipulate the people by telling them that the "poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy" (41). They try to tell the people that they do not need the desired human experiences like family and monogamy because that just made the "pre-moderns" unhappy while the world that the people were living in now was a lot better than before. The Controller tells the students that they are "fortunate boys...no pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy-to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all" (44). The controllers feel that they can manipulate the desired outcomes of human experiences by creating people with no emotions at all because that would help people stay loyal to the government. They would not have distractions which would detract their loyalty.
The ideas of the passage can be used to manipulate the desired outcomes of human experiences such as family, monogamy, impulse, feeling, and desire. The "sane men" that control the people's desires such as monogamy can control it simply through repetition. Mustapha Mond told the students that "every one belongs to every one else" to which "the students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable" (Huxley 40). The controllers also manipulate the people by telling them that the "poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy" (41). They try to tell the people that they do not need the desired human experiences like family and monogamy because that just made the "pre-moderns" unhappy while the world that the people were living in now was a lot better than before. The Controller tells the students that they are "fortunate boys...no pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy-to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all" (44). The controllers feel that they can manipulate the desired outcomes of human experiences by creating people with no emotions at all because that would help people stay loyal to the government. They would not have distractions which would detract their loyalty.
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Hey Shannon! I'm not so sure you addressed the prompt correctly, but I like your quotes anyways. What I think Mr. Dominguez wanted us to discuss was how values in the book differ from our morals today. As such, Brave New World only contains the basic family structure in savage reservations, where "old" virtues like monogamy are still upheld. It showed that even children were introduced to promiscuity when Mond takes the students on his part of the facility tour. In their society, stability is kept in check by the heavy distribution of soma and impulsive desire. The people are expected to find instant gratification for their desires so that they can always stay happy.
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